Maveric Systems unveils Testac

CHENNAI, INDIA: Provider of software-testing solutions, Maveric Systems has announced the availability of Testac, a proprietary test design workbench which hallmarks Maveric's expertise in Testing.

Testac promises to improve test coverage and crash timelines by over 40 per cent, in business critical software and systems and the product is available in three different suites namely, Testac Retail Banking (core, consumer and mortgage), Testac Wholesale Banking (Core and corporate lending) and Testac Islamic Banking (retail and corporate).

"According to an IDC report on the software testing industry, the market opportunity for the Indian offshore testing companies is currently $2 billion, and is estimated to rise to $8 billion in 2008," said Mr. Ranga Reddy, chief executive officer, Maveric Systems.

"Testac has led to a paradigm shift from a pure service model to an IP based services model thereby making us the only Indian company to have its proprietary intellectual property in the testing domain. The financial services domain expertise of our testing team coupled with our knowledge embedded design workbench have resulted in significant benefits to our customers," he added.

Maveric has advocated the "Model based testing" approach to effectively test business scenarios and Testac is based on this concept. A functional framework of the related business segments is embedded into the test design workbench. Some of the key benefits of Testac include

1. Helps deliver better test coverage

2. Significant reduction in timelines upto 30 per cent

3. Minimises test duplication

4. Carries deep domain knowledge

5. Permits prioritisation during execution

Testac Workbench has three integral components viz.,

1. A Business Modeler that holds pre-defined standard models for specific verticals. Models capture business definitions and rules at the product, transaction and business process levels.

2. A Design Generator that applies powerful algorithms and design principles to the business model to come up with optimised test cases.

3. An integrator that connects the workbench to upstream and downstream tools in defect and test management

Maveric as an organisation constantly innovates and adapts to the ever-changing landscape of testing domain. This new test design workbench will support Maveric's commitment to provide an industry-leading software-testing platform for the future.