1. Validata Advanced Testing Suite (ATS)
The leader in Automated testing for T24 1

2. Agenda 1 2 3 4 5 6 Business Challenges Validata Advanced Testing Suite
Validata Testing Approach 4
Validata Testing Methodology 5
Product Overview 6
Benefits

3. Business Challenges
Traditional test automation systems originated in a world that moved at a much slower pace, where waterfall development was the only game in town and no-one attempted to tackle automation of fast moving, mission-critical applications – they knew that the technology simply couldn’t keep up.
These products all get their capabilities from powerful scripting languages, something that sounds good but has become a horror in the real world, requiring a cult of highly skilled and highly paid test automation engineers to communicate with the complex and mysterious deity, the test automation tool.
Business Challenges:
Need to test complex interaction between processes and systems
Generic model for the organisation – encompassing all applications
Multiple location support
Multiple team support (over multiple locations) e.g. TAM, Test Centres
Multiple environment support (for multiple applications)
Referential integrity across environments
End-to-end regression testing

4. Validata Advanced Testing Suite (ATS)
Validata Advanced Testing Suite (ATS) provides a full end-to-end automated testing capability that adapts easily to changes in the application under test, ensuring higher quality and reduced costs and effort.
Validata ATS is a truly integrated and business process management solution.
Validata ATS is the first model – driven test automation tool for Functional, Technical and Continuous Regression Testing.
Validata focuses on the analytics (the context and the content) thus providing root cause analysis linking requirements and testing. Full reporting is on-demand from the Executive Dashboard Module.
20% increase in project success
50% faster time to Market
80% reduction in current spend on testing
80% reduction in current time to test
38% increase in assets re-use
30% increase in productivity
Project Success

5. Validata Unique Testing Approach
Throughout many projects involving many applications and integrated systems, the differences between the intended methodology and the practical delivery of a solution are greatly underestimated.
Our unique approach offers a Truly Integrated Testing Framework to ensure our clients can implement Validata ATS seamlessly and with immediate effect.
Validata Group believes in delivering true business value. Our approach, whilst technology driven, is focused on the businesses needs by:
Enabling business change without business disruption
Aligning the business with IT
This way, usual stated benefits can be aligned to quantifyable business outcomes
Benefits
Faster
Cost Efficient
Smarter
Simpler
Agile
Consistent
Business Outcomes
Faster-to-Value
Enhanced ROI
Fast to Market
Optimized Resources
Staff
Capex
Opex

6. Validata Testing Methodology
Testing Techniques:
Model Driven
Data Driven
Key Word Driven

7. Validata Risk-Based Methodology
Risk is the possibility that future events may cause adverse effects. Risk management is a discipline for understanding and mitigating these possibilities.
Risk mitigation and compliance reduces costs and protects reputation. In the current business climate both “cost containment” and “reputation management” are high on Boardroom agendas.
VALIDATA stores and links Risk related information to calculate risk assessment metrics.
Risk Management in VALIDATA is utilized in impact production reports and on demand regression testing.
VALIDATA’s risk-based approach to testing ensures that operational risks are identified and prioritized to ensure the issues are fully addressed.

8. Business Process Driven Testing
Many financial institutions are now regulated to demonstrate that not only are their business applications tested but that their operational processes are also aligned to the systems they use. Validata ATS is providing Business Process Testing, through its Business Flow Modeller (BFM) module.
Business Flow Modeller provides the ability to import business workflows from external systems such as ARIS Workflows, store, edit and visualize them in Validata’s repository. Once the Business Process have been captured we are able automatically to generate test cases and link them with the related business processes.
Business Process
Test Cases
Validata
CRM
Loan Origination
Banking Application
G/L
So, Validata BFM enables end-to-end testing aligned with the business processes.
This way, Validata user can ensure the qualitative and quantitative coverage of testing.

9. Model Driven Testing
Businesses that need to test complex interactions between processes and systems often find that their testing capabilities are not as robust as they would want them to be.
Significant benefits are to be found using a rigorous approach to clearly define the boundaries of both processes and systems that need to be tested effectively.
Unlike other testing tools available, in Validata ATS, in order to create the Test Cases, the Application Model as well as the Test Data remain separate from the Test Case structure. All information is brought together during the execution time and run against any test environment.
Faster, easier and more efficient maintenance is achieved when changes occur on the application or the test data level without effecting the total test case structure and providing to the user maximum flexibility and re-usability.
Validata
Validata Database
T24 Rx Under Test
Execution
T24 Application Data Model
Test Data (created or imported)
Test Cases designed for use with any T24 Release

10. Data Driven Testing
Most IT departments make direct copies of their production systems for non-production. This inefficient (and expensive) process lacks focus and increases test cycles immeasurably. As production databases slowly grow, the longer it will take to make a complete system copy. As a result, your test team struggles, you come across compliance challenges, your hardware costs rise and the overall quality of your testing (and test data) remains poor.
Validata ATS offers an end-to-end test data management solution which is flexible, fast and easy to use. Test Data Manager not only creates or generates synthetic data from scratch, it can also create subset databases, de-identify (mask or obfuscate) your existing data and bulk up data for performance testing.
Data Masking
Centralized Test Data Repository
Data Creation
Data Archiving
Full audit trail & Version Control
Data Quality
Data Profiling

11. Product Overview: Test Types
Functional Testing
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
System Integration Testing (SIT)
Interfaces Testing
Message Testing (MSG)
Technical Testing
Unit Testing
Performance Testing
Continuous Regression Testing
Validata ATS has the ability to perform Parallel Testing on multiple environments using the unique test engine adapter

12. Product Overview : Capabilities
Validata ATS consists of several modules which manage and monitor an End-to-End project from Planning, Preparation, Execution, Analysis till Project Readiness.
Meta Data Model Driven testing from clients application
End-to-end Testing driven from Business Processes, Requirements and Change Requests
Manual and Automated testing
Integration Testing with associated systems, such as: SWIFT & ATM
Full incident management capability, audit trail and history reports
Comprehensive tool-based approach for SOA testing.
Risk Management
Data Privacy
Built Reusable Test Assets
Instant Traceability Reports
Integrated Defect Management System
Storage of all Projects Assets in one repository

13. Product Overview : T24 Test Builder
Business users can now be directly involved in creating Test Cases with the minimum effort. No need for technical knowledge is required.
Team productivity is now boosted up its limits!
Simple and Fast test steps creation
Composite screens support
Automatically generate required steps against actual results comparisons
Easily select the correct T24 Versions for testing
New drop down selection of T24 modes
Visualization of the T24 screen version
Automatic validation of the Test data during the test case creation
Automatic import test data from T24 environments
Enhanced automatic calculations engine
Automatic verifications of T24 status records
Custom verification rules supporting data transformations and override messages
Improved interface to support T24 enquiry testing
User friendly GUI
Capabilities
Benefits
Test case productivity improved by 80% compared with the previous interface
Test case quality improved by 60%
Test cases creation deskilled by 76%
Reduces the learning effort by 82% ( assuming that the user has minimum T24 knowledge)
Test Data management improvement by 50%
Automation level reaches 85 % in a common project
Higher user productivity and support of automated testing through the Script Librarian feature

14. Product Overview : Performance Tester
Perform Continuous, Flexible and Scalable On demand Performance Testing
Fully integrated with Temenos T24
Reduced execution time, risk, cost and effort
Easy & Accurate Result Analysis
Script less and User Friendly
Cross Platform Testing
COB Testing Daily, Monthly, Quarterly
Online Testing
Batch Offline Testing

15. Product Overview : Message Testing (MSG)
Validata MSG provides an innovative automated testing framework with best practices and proven methodologies for testing of SWIFT, ATM, SOA and generic interfaces.
Banking Application
Mapping
Formatting
Carrier Control
SWIFT
TELEX
DE.MAPPING
DE.MESSAGE
DE.FORMAT.****
DE.O.HEADER
DE.CARRIER
DE.PRODUCT
Validata MSG verifies that the transaction in the Banking application has been generated according to the incoming swift message type and the proper mapping SWIFT rules

16. Product Overview: Workflow
Automation Test Suite Process Flow
Business Requirement Gathering
Validata Setup (Typical creation as per Version
of T24 to be Tested)
Define Project
Map Resources
Set Up Environment
Select Adapters
Requirement Definition
Test case Creation
Generate test cases
Input
Statistic Data
Link test cases
via calculation
Execution of Test Cases
Defect Management
T24
One Time Setup for any Project
Reusable for any Geographic
release with minor modification
Test Case estimation / Effort Estimation

17. Product Overview: T24 Model Bank Accelerators
Significant investment has been made in both the development of product functionality and relevant content, re-usable test cases to be packaged and delivered to clients as part of the overall product solution , to ensure full test coverage when it counts!
Our testing accelerators allow Validata ATS to jump start our clients implementation by having up to 80% of the core Test Cases and Test Steps available immediately testing begins.
The structure provides a ‘ready-to-use’ set of test scenarios, grouped into logical functions and based on the major banking business functions (i.e. Loans, deposits, FX...), providing re-usability.
Reusability is the key driver in reducing costs. As a limited amount of customization will be required, the cost of implementing Validata is significantly reduced.
Extend your test coverage with Validata ATS! 17

18. Product Overview: Validata Adapters
An Adapter is a component which connects Validata ATS to external systems and data sources to enable quality automated testing:
Validata ATS acquires appropriate information from the software application under test using our unique adaptor technology
Our adapters enable the mapping between Validata objects and system under test objects
No development / scripting is required
T24 OFS Adapter
T24 Web Adapter
Globus Desktop Adapter
MS Project Adapter
SOA Adapter
SWIFT Adapter
ISO-8583 Adapter
SOAP Adapter
Generic Adapters
SQL Adapter
Performance Adapter

19. Product Overview: Defect Management
Validata ATS provides an integrated Defects Management system that stores defects identified from every execution. It also manages the changes to requirements and processes and as soon as the fixes are available, redirects a new cycle of testing based on the impact analysis reports provided.
Catch defects early during targeted integration / regression testing
Change analysis impact report
Ability to integrate with external system
Audit, trail and history reporting
Alert mechanism based on user customized workflows
Monitor defects found through the Executive Dashboard and user- customizable reports, offering full visibility

20. Product Overview: On Demand Reporting
Achieve end-to end traceability across multiple projects
Get real time on demand reporting
Develop these reports for internal use
Build in your own KPI measurements
Understand where your project is heading

21. The Critical Differencies
Efficient Testing
Effective Testing
Reduced Testing time - Less time to develop, Shortened application life cycle and Faster time to market
Reduced QA Cost - Upfront cost of automated testing is easily recovered over the lifetime of the product. The cost of performing automated testing is much lower, many times faster and with fewer errors
Greater Coverage -The productivity gains delivered by automated testing enable more and complete testing. Greater coverage reduces the risk of malfunctioning or non-compliant software
Improved testing productivity - Test suites can be run earlier and more often
Improve Process
Better Use of resources
Consistent test procedures - Ensuring process repeatability, resource independence, eliminates manual errors
Replicating Testing - Across different platforms is easier using automation
Results Reporting - Automated testing produces convenient reporting and analysis with standardized measures allowing more accurate interpretations
Using Testing Effectively -Testing is a repetitive activity. Automation of testing processes allows machines to complete the tedious, repetitive work while resources are diverted to perform other tasks
Test team members can focus on quality

22. Cost Effectiveness: Automated Testing
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Aggregated Effort (hours)
Manual
Testing
Traditional Automation
ROI within 6 test cycles
Typically Three
Test Cycles
within Upgrade
Validata Automation
Testing Suite
(ATS)
Validata ATS
ROI within 2 test cycles
# of Test Cycles
Total Effort Per Approach (Hours)
(Assumption: 35 Business Processes)

23. Effort Overview: Test Creation Phase
Systems Integration Testing
Manual
Functional Testing
Continuous Regression Testing
Performance Testing
-30% Faster on test case creation
-60% Faster than manual
Limitations
No Low level testing.
Lack of Knowledge and Complex test transactions and enquiries.
No qualitative test cases.
No reusability
-40% Due to Test data and scenarios reusability
With Accelerators Highest Automation Required:
Enquires
Advanced Enquiries
Test Data
Automatic Business Rules
Comparison Rules
-70% less effort by reusing the test artifacts from SIT
Highest Automation Required:
Enquires
Advanced Enquiries
Comparison Rules
Automatic Business Rules
-60% less effort by reusing the test artifacts from SIT
Highest Automation Required:
Automatic Business Rules

24. Effort Overview: Test Execution Phase
Systems Integration Testing
Manual
Functional Testing
Continuous Regression Testing
Performance Testing
-60% Faster on every cycle
-70% Faster in any cycle
Cycle 1
Cycle 2
Cycle 3
Cycle 4
-80% Faster on every cycle
Same Effort for all Cycles
Cycle 1
Cycle 2
Cycle 3
Cycle 4
Cycle 1
Cycle 2
Cycle 3
No comparison to manual as it is only automatic

25. ROI based on re-usability
Automation – RUN 1
Infrastructure
On boarding
Test Case Creation
Automation Design
Run MTC
% Reusability
Automation - RUN 2
Automation Design
Automation – RUN 3
COS T $$
0 % Reusability
40% Reusability
60% Reusability

26. Do You Have Any Questions?
We would be happy to help.