ASX automates over half its software testing As it works to bring new features online faster. Ry Crozier itNews Aug 18 2020
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has automated just over half of the 68,000 test cases needed to ensure software underpinning Australia’s financial markets remains reliable and functioning as intended. ... The ASX is seven years into test case automation, a journey that started out with Simon Miller - ASX’s test automation manager - and a single copy of QuickTest Professional (QTP). ... “It was just me working on one platform using QTP,” Miller told Micro Focus’ Realize 2020 ANZ virtual summit. “Now obviously I was doing the best job I could, but there's only so much one person can do. There was a lot of low coverage.” Fast-forward seven years, and there's now a team of 29 people “currently involved in test automation at the ASX, working across all our domains and multiple applications,” he said. ... In my early years, I actually had to feed the test-data card-set into the reader, and operate the console to do test-runs. And that had to be at night, after the day's production-runs had all finished. At the London Stock Exchange (LSX), the large test-team working on TALISMAN developed a small sub-system to run the testing. My early unautomated work was 1971-75. TALISMAN was 1977-79. So 'news' that's 40 years old is worth re-cycling?? (And in 2013, there was a single person at ASX using tools to assist in application software testing??). On the positive side, it's nice to see a rare mention of *any* aspect of quality assurance - even if it's the second-last-gasp / alpha-testing phase, which is at the late and expensive end of the QA palette. -- Roger Clarke mailto:roger.cla...@xamax.com.au T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link