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Eliminatingbusiness-criticalIT-risks

APPLICATION MANAGEMENT

100% QA for workplaces


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QtestBASE is a professional system that targets

100% QA-coverage for reliable, fail-safe and secu-re workplaces. The technology allows to eliminate

any rollout risks to avoid costs or image dama-

ges. Use QtestBASE inside your User Acceptance

Testing (UAT) or in your standalone QA processes,

if you have

thousands of medium important workplaces or

a few extremely important workplaces

with a high availability and reliability.

Ensuring business-critical workplaces with

Application Fingerprint technology

Business-critical applications and workplaces

require 100% quality assurance coverage.

To identify the possible collisions, so called

Fingerprints are generated for each application.

They contain information about all the changes

the installation medium imprints on the system.

To identify the potential conflicts proactively

between the applications in a specific workplace

scenario, their fingerprints are compared with

each other.

Quality Assurance as a permanent process

integrated between packaging and rollout

Quality Assurance is often carried out between

established packaging and rollout processes.

QtestBASE is in principle independent of package

formats and can thus be used at different stages

in the process. For example it can be placed as a

pre-test, to check the conformity of installation

packages initially. In each case a controlled ap-

proval process is supported which documents the

QA before rolling out into a production environ-ment.

Using many years of experience in software

quality assurance, while developing QtestBASE

we have given a special care to the seamless

integration of QtestFLOW into existing processes

(and external workflow interfaces) as well as into

ticketing and runtime control of test executions.

Our QA philosophy: Reduce risks, identify

problems, back to packaging

In the past packaging and rollout phases have

used analytical methods. Package creation

expanded to package customization, conflict ma-

nagement or application isolation. But the focus

remains on application readiness.

The main goal of quality assurance is to ensure

the functioning of entire workplaces. The finger-

prints of the installation packages and applica-

tions have to be generated to detect business-

critical risks before the rollout. A successfullinstallation of a software package doesnt ensure

that the target environment is running conflict-

free as before.

After the identification of potential problems

which may break a workplace, the packages are

sent back to be repackaged. QA doesnt mean

application remediation.

Eliminating business-critical IT-risks

OVERVIEW

Packaging User Acceptance Testing Rollout

PACKAGE READINESS DISTRIBUTION READINESS

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Product solutionQtestBASE

QTESTBASE

The product name QtestBASE was coined from

quality, test and database. The productprovides a workflow optimized quality analysis of

software installations which are usually embed-

ded in packaging, rollout processes or in between

them, according to the overall requirements of

Quality Assurance (QA) within the User Accep-

tance Testing (UAT) or in standalone phases.

The repository, with its full history, is an essen-

tial basic component of the expert system. To

perform the analysis actively and flexibly, a self

learning system is used.

QtestBASE is based on Glass Box Testing and

dynamic analysis. By using our revolutionaryQtestAGENT technology the quality of any

software packages, patches or hotfixes can be

assured completely.

Basic QtestBASE module. Contains the essential core funcionality for the user interface.

Portable agent software to monitor all the applied changes during software installation or uninstallation

process.

Server-based job management for automated application compatibility analyses.

Workflow module for integration into overlaying workflow systems and custom processes.

Self learning expert system to support the test engineer in application interoperability confict analysis.

Modul for monitoring physical and virtual applications during runtime.

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QTESTBASE

Functionality

Complete workplace-test

Support for all installationformats

Patches, hotfixes and OS-updatesare supported

100% QA-coverage

Completeness

Fully automated creation ofApplication Fingerprints

Automation of installation-processes

Monitoring of all changes to thesystem (installation, runtime,uninstallation)

Automation

Fast assessment of resultsand conflict analysis

QA-documentation and -proof

Extensive reporting (App2AppConflict-Matrix)

Analysis & Report

Supporting ApplicationManagement (CompatibilityAssessment, QA, UAT)

Workflow oriented interface incl.ticketing

Interface to third party systems

Distributed Workflow

Selflearning expert system to

support the user

Reduction of test efforts

Continuous updates of new Appli-cation Fingerprints by theQtestBASE lab.

Pre-Filled Repository

QA

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Workflow oriented and intuitiveuser interface

QTESTBASE

QtestSTUDIO is a central component of QtestBA-

SE. It provides the tester with a workflow orienteduser interface for test preparation, definition,

control and analysis. It provides the analyst a

comfortable tool for test result evaluation and

reporting.

The standard reports include for example Ap-

plication Fingerprint (all file system, registry and

other system changes of a single application),

App2App (conflicts between applications),

App2OS (conflicts of single application vs. oper-

ating system), Workplace2OS (conflicts between

the workplace definition (group of applications)

with the operating system) and many otherdetailed reports. The reporting may be adjusted

to the users specific requirements using a defined

interface at any time.

Intuitive usability is ensured by an ergonomic

user interface in a modern Windows 7 design.


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Generation of completeApplication Fingerprints

QTESTBASE

By using highly developed QtestAGENT techno-

logy, its possible to detect and identify all kindsof changes during installation, uninstallation and

runtime to the file system, access rights, registry,

group policies or drivers. This results in an 100%

complete Application Fingerprint.

Portable, standalone, high performance

QtestAGENT is designed as portable software

that can run standalone in the test environment,

requiring no preinstallation, dependencies or

prerequisites. It accumulates basic snapshots (forexample operating system and patches) and dif-

ferential information of applications and software

components on the fly.

Multiple parallel processing, a special hybrid

mode and the optimization for Windows 7 gives

QtestAGENT a high runtime performance. It also

supports 64-Bit platforms and complete Unicode

character sets. All input and output files are in

XML format and encoded in UTF-8.

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Self learningexpert system

QTESTBASE

The expert system QtestXPERT gathers expert

know-how in an ever updating knowledge basedatabase. The system uses various knowledge

sources such as the structure information of

software packages gathered by QtestAGENT, test

results and their evaluation by the expert. Other

sources include application compatibility rules

published by vendors (vendor rules), customer

specific rules and style sheets such as security re-

quirements and format specifications (customer

rules), and best practices.

Assisting decision making

The self learning expert system aims to con-

sistently assist the engineer in identifying conflicts

as well as improving efficiency by reducing neces-

sary testing effort. The increasing coverage and

continuous updates of QtestXPERTs knowledge

base will result in a reduction of effort and costswhen it comes to the evaluation of identified pro-

blems (such as dealing with installation conflicts).

The transfer of experts knowledge in a digital

form extends the usage of that knowledge signi-

ficantly and also increases the quality of decision

making by reducing the risk of making wrong

decisions.

App

App FingerprintInstallation / uninstallation test

Repository App2AppApplication-Set Scenario, Workplace

OS

Database

TEST-

IMPORT

ANALYSIS /

EVALUATION

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self learning

customization

complete historization

multiple sources


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QTESTBASE

In an App2App test, potential conflicts of ap-

plications with one another are identified andclearly displayed in a conflict matrix. The set of

displayed applications can be freely selected and

configured. The traffic light signal presentation

makes it possible to quickly recognize conflicts.

The integrated reporting engine makes it possible

to show the different level of abstractions of aReport. The same data can be used for manage-

ment summaries as well as for detailed reports or

exports for test engineers.

SAP GUI SAP 7.10 145

Report exemplarisch, kein Anspruch auf Korrektheit

Management Summary

Workbench

Engineer Detail-View

Export (z.B. XLS, HTML)

AdobeFlash

Player

Example Report: Not guaranteedto be correct

QA-Reporting forsuccessful UAT


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Awakened your interest?

QTESTBASE

Our product and sales managers Mr. Abdus

Salam and Mr. Christoph Dietrich will be pleased

to answer your enquiries or to give you a non-

binding detailed presentation of QtestBASE.

Your contact

Christoph Dietrich

Sales and Distribution

[email protected]

+49 9371 4087 - 8101

Abdus Salam

Product manager

[email protected]

+49 9371 4087 - 6510

Vendor and Service

TypoSola GmbH

Siemensstrae 8-10

63897 Miltenberg

Tel. +49 9371 4087 - 9100

Fax +49 9371 4087 - 9155

[email protected]

www.typosola.de

Software-Development

Mentopolis Consulting & Software Concepts GmbH

Siemensstrae 8-10

63897 Miltenberg am Main

Tel. +49 9371 4087 - 0

Fax +49 9371 4087 - 3155

[email protected]

www.mentopolis.de

About us

Mentopolis CSC GmbH is a medium-sized system

house situated in Miltenberg am Main. We are

working for more than 15 years in the quality

assurance sector to integrate workplace systems.

We support our clients, ranging from government

and banking sector to the largest European tele-

communication company, to automate the com-

plex QA processes. Since the end of the 1990s we

are developing workflow oriented tools to assist

the IT service management phases like packaging,

migration and rollout.

Dynamic Analysis(Physical Test)

Workplace Managementfor Business-criticalApplications

ApplicationReadiness

Tool DevelopmentPhysical Test

Client IntegrationManagement (CIM)

20112000 2005

QM Workflow

Expert System Self Learning

Integration Software-

Rollout-Tools

QA Concept

1995

Static Analysis

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