Guidewire projects follow an Agile methodology iteratively releasing new lines of business one after the other or adding more capabilities to already existing products. This approach creates the need for better quality and faster time to market to overtake the competition.
A transition from manual testing to automated testing is a project on its own. Hiring resources with new skillsets, introducing or developing new tools, requests for additional infrastructure and environments, is a guarantee. All this translates to a bigger upfront investment in comparison to manual testing. Without fixed expenses nor clear predictable gains at the start of a transition, calculating the ROI of such endeavor is not a simple task. Here we will point to several less obvious aspects which need to be taken into consideration when estimating the ROI. What to balance all the costs with?
Every test automation needs investment to start with. With every new test, the overall execution time increases. Why write so many new tests if you do not have time to run them? What is the point of using Data-Driven Testing to multiply those numbers even more if you are already out of time? The most common solution is to add more manual testers, however, this means an increase in cost for testing. Is there a way to avoid that?
Query.make() is the heart of all database queries. Queries are made against entities (e.g. .eti, .etx) which are complex database objects. xCenter uses an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) to retrieve and save all data from the Database Management System (DBMS). By using an ORM, the query logic remains DBMS agnostic, so it does not matter if we are using MS SQL, Oracle, DB2 or H2, the query language is abstracted away from us. Most of the SQL produced by the ORM is ANSI SQL with some exceptions for specific DBMS implementations.
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Canadian mutual insurer automates testing across Guidewire InsuranceSuite and ProducerEngage as part of an internal quality transformation, with Day-One readiness for Guidewire Cloud
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