Accenture Touchless Testing Platform Launched to Help Companies Test Software Faster, Achieve Higher Quality
April 19 2017 - 7:59AM
Business Wire
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) launched a new platform for automated,
analytics-driven software testing, after successfully completing
pilots with 10 clients around the world. The Accenture Touchless
Testing Platform brings together leading open source, commercial
and Accenture proprietary tools and algorithms to automate a
robust, touchless testing process for software – all guided by
artificial intelligence and analytics.
The new platform allows testing teams to easily integrate tools
from leading players such as Conformiq, Hewlett Packard Enterprise,
Intel Saffron, Sauce Labs, Tableau, Tricentis and Worksoft, along
with key Accenture innovations, to bring new enterprise software
solutions to market faster and with higher quality. Continuous
testing is increasingly important as companies look to software as
a means of competitive advantage. Depending on the client
engagement the platform can be deployed independently or as part of
Accenture myWizard®.
“Software testing today still struggles with over-engineering
efforts that can result in anywhere from 30 to 50 percent of wasted
time and effort,” said Kishore Durg, managing director and global
testing lead for Accenture. “With advances in analytics, artificial
intelligence and data visualization, however, it’s now possible to
not only find these areas of inefficiencies and eliminate them, but
also to uncover business risks and opportunities that weren’t
visible before. That is what the Accenture Touchless Testing
Platform is designed to do.”
One insurance company that piloted the platform discovered they
could accelerate their pace of delivery by improving their test
suite. Using the platform’s cognitive engine, Accenture identified
up to 22 percent test cases as duplicates or similar that could be
eliminated. By applying such insights into defect detection and
analysis, test execution and retesting, the company can
significantly improve the speed and quality of the software
development and accelerate overall cycle time.
For a major trading company, Accenture effectively used the
platform’s data mining and analytics features for intelligent
automation and testing of performance, availability, scalability
and reliability attributes of their custom software platforms that
have significant impact on production quality. Accenture used these
techniques to help model complex workflows, detect production
anomalies and early warnings and identify system usage and failure
patterns to diagnose critical and hidden faults. Leveraging the
platform, the company has been able to significantly improve the
quality and performance of their risk management platform and
trading system across distributed locations.
“The Accenture Touchless Testing Platform is the latest example
of how Accenture is using automation and artificial intelligence to
disrupt every aspect of the application lifecycle, and make IT an
agent for speed, change and customer experience,” said Bhaskar
Ghosh, group chief executive, Accenture Technology Services.
“Artificial intelligence is helping us rethink old approaches to
testing and helping testers operate smarter and more efficiently.
Applying analytics to massive amounts of production and test data
is key to spotting trends, predicting failures, managing risk and
continuously responding to customer feedback, all of which is
critical to competitiveness.”
The data visualization capabilities of the platform help testers
make better use of volumes of data generated in a test cycle. This
can help prioritize work based on quality heat maps, failure and
usage patterns and test suite vitality. The platform also provides
testers with early warnings on system anomalies, and real-time
guided interventions. The overall test design and execution process
is guided by an industry-specific reusable testing repository
comprising more than 76,000 test scenarios, scripts and conditions
across 33 industries and 280 end-to-end business processes.
For more information about Accenture Testing Services, visit
Accenture.com/testing.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 401,000
people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives
innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us
at www.accenture.com.
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