Siemens Digital Industries Software Accelerates Testing and Improves Quality with Keysight Eggplant
Case Studies
Siemens Digital Industries Software, a division of Siemens, is an innovation and technology leader in industrial automation and digitalization, employing approximately 70,000 people worldwide. The Research & Development (R&D) team within Siemens QMS team focuses on quality management, particularly for the desktop product Opcenter™ Quality software, a quality management system that helps manufacturers meet their quality goals. Opcenter Quality is developed with OpenText Gupta Team Developer and is on a six-month release cycle. Four weeks in each cycle is dedicated to regression testing. The process involves 700 security and scenario tests, and three people had been testing manually with the support of the Mercury WinRunner test automation tool to increase the speed of test execution. However, when Mercury WinRunner stopped being supported, a new solution was needed to ensure regression testing could still be completed within the allocated four-week timescale and without needing additional resource. The team researched the market for a replacement tool. Of all the capabilities required, only one was non-negotiable – object recognition, because the tool had to be able to identify object IDs within the application. Only one tool fitted the bill – Keysight Eggplant.