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CrashFinder passes all the tests with flying colors. Three key factors go into the evaluation process: cost reduction, time to market, and improved product reliability to reduce the cost of support. CrashFinder contributes to each of these categories.

Reduce the Cost of Testing

Testing costs money. Trained staff costs money. Automated testing with CrashFinder can provide savings through a reduction in the resource allocated to product testing.

Using CrashFinder to automate part or all of the testing process reduces the need for experienced testers to repeat tests, perform regression tests, and run stability and reliability tests.

     - Scriptless Automation

Test Engineers don't need to write a single line of code to create a test case or a test suite. CrashFinder's user interface recorder simply saves the sequence of action, including keyboard and mouse events, that a user or a tester would do. CrashFinder validates the result of the test using a capture of the interface; CrashFinder compares the interface state with the expected result. CrashFinder can also compare the presence and attributes of a window or a control with the expected results.

     - Faster Results

Automated testing runs faster: it is not biased nor is it distracted by its environment. CrashFinder can type and execute actions faster than a human tester. On a given test scenario CrashFinder can execute the test anywhere from 25% to 60% faster than the average Test Engineer. Automation can compress the test cycle by 50 to 90 percent.

     - Extended Operations

CrashFinder can run unattended, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The average Test Engineer works approximately 2,000 hours per year. Automated testing can, potentially, operate 8,760 hours per year.

Accelerated Time to Market

Test automation can help you to minimize the time to market for your product. Deliver robust and reliable products to product as quickly as possible. Don't lose revenue to delays caused by slow or incomplete testing. Compress the testing phases of software development using CrashFinder.

The value of the accelerated time to market is defined as follow:

Revenue recaptured = time saving (in weeks) x unit production per week x margin per unit

Improved Product Quality

You don't like unreliable software, your customers don't like unreliable software: CrashFinder is key to delivering low-cost, reliable software. If your software is mission-critical, you can't afford to deliver anything less than defect-free software.

Early detection of software defects provides more than peace of mind.

According to Rex Black, author of Managing the Testing Process, a defect fixed earlier in the software development process cost a fraction of the fixing the defect after delivery to the customer.

A problem found post-release costs 10 to 100 times more to fix than an issue identified and resolved early in the development process.

Cost of Quality = (number of defects found prior release x cost of fixing defects prior to release) + (number of defects found after release x cost of fixing defects after release)

The value of savings depends on the number of issues found prior to release vs. the number of issues found after the release. This is called the defect-finding efficiency. Typical automated testing uncovers as much as 75% of defects. CrashFinder users can uncover a higher percentage of defects, as much as 85% or 90 %, a significant improvement. This figure is higher than regular automation testing mostly due to CrashFinder’s ability to explore the user interface and automatically create reliability tests. CrashFinder mimics the actions of the Test Engineer on the application and performs different action combinations. An algorithm using artificial intelligence makes CrashFinder very effective at findings defects in an application.

The ROI Calculation

The following link provides a sample comparison of the ROI for CrashFinder, Automated Testing, and Manual Testing.

The basic definition of ROI used is:

ROI = ((Total Savings – Total Cost) / Total Cost) x 100

Note that the initial investment of CrashFinder compare to an automated testing application with scripting is minimal. Automation testing with scripting requires the investment in the test automation infrastructure and the investment in creating test scripts.

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