Getting Started with Worksoft Certify

Worksoft Certify is an integrated test repository and automated test execution solution that supports enterprise-level Business Process Certification. Business Process Certification parallels the software development life cycle and provides focus on assuring that critical business processes work. Certify allows you to capture, document, and maintain the following information:

• Applications
• Business processes
• Operating cycles

Certify maintains an inventory of your applications and Business Process Certification components. Your application components are organized in a way that allows you to manage them easily. This structure ties all the components of your application together into a consistent hierarchy.

 

Certify's integrated components not only allows you to document and automate your test cases, but you are also able to track the progress of your certification and measure results throughout the complete product life cycle.

Life Cycle Approach

Certify's complete life cycle approach consists of the following steps:

• Planning your Business Process Certification
• Designing your certification process
• Building the actual test cases

The table below shows how Certify addresses the required Process Certification tasks for each of the phases within the product life cycle:

Life	Business Process Certification	Description
Plan	Identify applications to test Identify end users Capture business functions	Applications and Versions Project Requirements
Design	Adopt naming standards Define critical business tasks Define operating cycles	Processes
Build	Create map Reconcile names Define data elements Develop test cases Define data states	Learn and Import/Resolve Interfaces Variables Processes Recordsets
Test	Execute certification Capture results	Automated or Manual Execution Result Viewer
Analyze	Analyze results Identify incidents Status analysis	Result Viewer Hooks Queries and Reports
Maintain	Receive new application version or feedback from previous application versions. Identify and implement changes Reconcile application maps	Import Resolve and Processes Interfaces

Basic Certify Task Workflow