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The importance of testing

Do you have applications that are pretty old and you don’t know sufficiently about in terms of technology and content? Perhaps your mainframe experts have now retired, leaving you with a poor quality source code and documentation. You simply don’t know what the mainframe applications are meant to do. You’re then in a difficult position if you want to migrate from the mainframe to a .NET environment, even if the migration is largely automated.

Updating source code and documentation

Together with our partner Sogeti, the market leader in testing, we can supply a solution. We can update your source code and documentation with the use of re-engineering tools. This enables us to get a good picture of your legacy applications, so we know exactly how the applications work in their old environment. We can also provide a complete overview of where the application gets its functionality from. Only in this way can we effectively test the transferred program code after the actual conversion. In short, we can compare the old and new environments.

Using Asysco’s (AMT) LION migration technology, migrations are fully automatic, but naturally the conversion must be thoroughly checked and minor errors eliminated. If we have been able to test your applications in advance, these errors can be rectified quickly and efficiently, so your projects suffer no delays.

Performance and acceptation tests

After the migration, it’s important to carry out performance tests to check the speed at which your information system processes interactive and batch transactions. This enables Sogeti to prevent any performance problems that may arise and lead to loss of turnover. Finally, acceptation tests make a further important contribution to aiding acceptation by end users. By involving the end user in the testing process at an early stage, you can guarantee that his or her experience corresponds to your objective.

About Sogeti Software Control

Developing ICT solutions involves risks. A system may be delivered too late or there may be annoying bugs in it. The SC division makes the risks caused by software errors visible and manageable. Sogeti’s testing and quality assurance services provide their customers with insight into the risks that are still in the system and supply tools for handling them in a controlled way. Their TMap® and TPI® methods are used worldwide and have been translated into many languages. 

For more information, see www.sogeti.nl.