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Customer Success Story: WFAA's Efficient Salesforce Integration and Automated Testing for Cost Savings and Enhanced Analysis.

07.12.23 10:51 PM - By Patrick Grant
 

Testing Automation Project Description 

 

Client 

In 2014, the Wisconsin Alumni Association merged with the UW Foundation to form the non-profit Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association (WFAA). With history dating back more than 150 years, the organization has a mission to ...

Start Defining your Testware

14.11.23 05:49 PM - By Patrick Grant

START DEFINING YOUR TESTWARE 

 Defining your testware can be a daunting task, yet not doing so often leads to problems just as your test initiatives are gathering steam and attention within your organization. Imagine, because of your excellent work, you have been asked to scale up the volum...

Challenging Assumptions: User Acceptance Testing in Commercial Off-The-Shelf Software

02.11.23 09:11 PM - By Patrick Grant

When using applications to solve business needs, organizations have two options: design and build the software in-house or purchase, configure, and customize. As the platforms become more capable and easier to configure and customize, Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software (on-premises and cloud p...

The Beatles’ “Get Back” as a mini business analysis

01.11.23 12:58 AM - By Patrick Grant

The Beatles knew how to create a BHAG.

While watching the Beatles documentary “Get Back,” by Peter Jackson (I’ve finished two of the three parts so no spoilers please), I quickly made connections to the running of a business. Imagine your company has just announced you’re producing a major live event...

Testing APIs using Eggplant

29.09.23 07:45 PM - By Patrick Grant
This tutorial will prepare you to test APIs using the API endpoints included in Eggplant’s Digital Automation Intelligence suite. We will use outputs from one API query to generate the following API call, starting with a simple test. You can even get the source code generated during the tutorial! Yo...