Infrastructure roll-outs, cloud migration and new Websites top the list of this year’s IT projects. And let’s face it – even when everything goes according to plan (as if that’s ever the case!), these endeavors take up way too much of your precious time, keeping you from finishing other tasks, and keeping you for long hours in the office. The solution is simple – it’s time to streamline and AUTOMATE!
Think about automation as a series of steps that you can automatically generate and drive from a computer in sequence using a “virtual user” (copy, paste, type, click, generate a record, etc.), until a job is completed, WITHOUT any human intervention (other than building the automation script or a set of instructions that control virtual users behavior). For example, manual entry or database rolls-out are great examples of time-consuming, tedious and prone-to-errors tasks that you should automate to reduce costs, save time and accelerate project completion.
Let’s illustrate the point with Tevron’s real-world customer stories and ROI from the trenches:
Story 1:
Automate DB roll-outs (60,000 records in 4 days!
“I walked into a room and I saw 6 people in a room moving 60,000 records manually, countless weeks ahead them”. So I told them “Wait. I work in QA, I can build a CitraTest script and automate this task for you”.
The result? Instead of using a team of 6 working on this phase for months, the job was completed by CitraTest in only 4 days.
The pay-off? Smiles all around. I was able to save MANY days of work and effort, drastically cutting costs and accelerating time to completion
Story 2:
Automate Data Entry
“We were converting a legacy system into a new system and we found out too late that our vendor didn’t provide any tool to automate data migration. The team was desperate, many days, many man hours ahead of them to manually tackle this phase. CitraTest automatically completed the process and saved us a lot of time and efforts. Besides scripting anything (so you can automate all manual tasks), it has a nice recovery feature so you can re-start your data entry at any point without losing any data“.
The result? Peace of mind and complete accuracy, plus big savings in time and cost
If you are new to automation, speak with your QA/Testing counterparts to discuss how to go about building your automation scripts. For example CitraTest is a software test automation solution that can be used for both QA pre-production testing (functional, performance, regression testing, load testing) and to automate complex, tedious and time-consuming manual IT tasks. You can script against any application (Citrix, Terminal Emulation mode, legacy applications, all Web browsers, all Thick Client apps, etc.) that is accessible from a Windows client. CitraTest automates manual tasks by remaining a back-ground operation that generates real mouse activity and keyboard strokes and then responds to the images on the screen – just like a real user. Every user action can be replicated and automated.
Ready to learn more? Check out CitraTest!
The next time you walk into a room and see your peers engaging in manual tasks (or you are in the mist of completing tedious and time-consuming manual tasks), think about automation to get the job done, faster, error-free and much more cost-effectively. Great for both QA and IT teams.
Good luck!