Re: Test/QA automation tools / vendors

Glenn

I'd take a look at some of the Rational products - owned by IBM. In particular, for Application Lifecycle Management. There's a set of tools built on what they call the Jazz server platform - you can see more about it at www.jazz.net - go there, then click on the products tab.

Requirements Composer lets you gather requirements - you can also use Rational DOORS Next Generation, I think.

Then there is Team Concert - this is about collaboration and can be a change management for all your platforms, including IBM i.

Finally, Quality Manager is what it suggests - testing and all that stuff.

Not cheap, of course - you can try them out in sandboxes that IBM has set up - very nice, IMO.

They work in Eclipse and in browser environments - Eclipse is nice, since RDi is also there, and they do work together - more recently, dependecy-based builds were added - so if you change an LF, programs using it will be added to the build - something like that.

HTH
Vern

On 11/27/2013 1:30 PM, Glenn Birnbaum wrote:

Hi -

We have an Enterprise project underway with the following objective: Company growth and continued support of existing lines of businesses mandates the need to create more robust development and QA test environments, processes, tools, and staffing to effectively and efficiently support all testing activities. Our goal is to establish standardized and repeatable test processes in support of all test tasks.

This is not an IBM i centric project. We have the usual mix of Windows, UNIX, LINUX as well as IBM i, so we're looking for solutions that can support cross platform testing and QA. Since I'm our IBM i Systems Engineer I've been asked about solutions that include the IBM i

I'd appreciate any experiences and/or recommendations for vendors/tools that support these goals. Even if the solution is IBM i centric, I'd still be interested in your thoughts.

Thanks,
Glenn Birnbaum