First National Bank on top of testing with Mercury Interactive

With a primary mandate to completely automate their regression testing process, to streamline existing testing processes and to minimise and eliminate defects thereby delivering better quality solutions, products and client services, First National Bank conducted an extensive evaluation process of automated testing tools available on the market.

The tool-set purchased from global automated software testing specialists, Mercury Interactive, will enable First National Bank to satisfy the mandate and ensure a more structured approach to manual and automated testing, thereby improving turn-around time of products and solutions through test to the market place.

This is according to Craig Harris, Senior Manager of Testing Services, Technology at First National Bank, who adds, "Whichever automated testing solution we chose had to meet our main criteria i.e.: cater for web applications, our distributed platforms and our legacy systems."

"Mercury Interactive`s Test Director 6 product suite has done this very successfully, while the Astra QuickTest product validates web site content, reliability and performance, to accelerate the testing process, and Loadrunner specifically tests load, performance and scalability," comments Graeme Allcock, sales manager for Mercury Interactive South Africa.

"As one of South Africa`s leading financial institutions we are extremely focused on streamlining our testing processes in order to deliver maximum value for the client," comments Harris, concluding that,

"Together with Mercury Interactive`s local technical team, we have succeeded in setting up an efficient automated software testing environment."