Objective
Our software systems are becoming more and more important for the daily operation of our customers. It is therefore necessary to deliver extremely reliable and stable software. On top of this, a rapidly evolving environment necessitates short time to market cycles. In this context, automated software testing provides a way to perform tests more consistently and more systematically.
The objective of our experiment is therefore to increase software reliability and stability, and shorten time to market cycles for our generic modules. We want to decrease the time spent providing customer support solving software anomalies. This will allow us to implement a great product variety without loss of reliability.
THE EXPERIMENT
The experiment will consist of the following actions:
Market survey, selection and acquisition of a software testing tool
Installation of a measurement method
Set-up of the test environment
Experiment with change management of the testing environment in the light of software evolutions (releases)
The development process of our OMP/Master Production Scheduling software will be used as a baseline project. This system runs on a database, and is strongly oriented towards its graphical user interface. It consists of approximately 200.000 lines of C-code, some of which is shared with other products.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
OM Partners n.v. expects to be able to increase even further its software quality while shortening the time to market of new releases. We intend to decrease the time spent on customer support due to software anomalies, while providing a large product customisability. This will be obtained thanks to a reduction of the time spent on executing a test session, resulting in higher test frequency.
After finishing the experiment, we foresee the application of the newly acquired know-how on the development process of our other products. To this end, work instructions will be established.
A future process improvement might consist in the implementation of a help desk tool, customer satisfaction being a continuous concern of OM Partners n.v.
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