May 2020CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM 19and maintenance. With the growing effects of DevOps and continuous integration, handling frequent changes to an application is the top challenge as the need for continuous testing becomes a necessity. Another key component will be to increase the level of automation and coverage of the testing which in many cases remain a highly manual and time-consuming process. The automation of the requirements and design process form the foundation for automated test execution and will become a more important first element in end-2-end intelligent automation.Combining these two key components and enabling the technology to apply real intelligence across all elements of the testing framework, from requirements design to use and test case creation and execution, and to issue analysis and reporting, will enable organizations to deliver better test design and ever faster testing cycles. This will also improve test coverage and accuracy, and the ability to identify and address issues far earlier and with greater insight. While Agile methodologies continue to grow in adoption, the ever-changing applications with increased complexity and number of new releases,a need to shift-left testing and empower non-QA resources and manual testers to contribute to test automation efforts is becoming crucial.More people across the organizations are involved in the testing and implementation (Business analyst, developers, QA). With BDD/TDD and other shift-left testing practices, the responsibility also shifts to business analysts and SMEs. With the Otoma Platform, these non-technical resources can easily create automated scripts and simplify the testing and implementation.What are the major challenges CIOs of leading companies face in the software testing solution space and how is Otoma effectively addressing these issues?In banking, CIOs face major challenges to their most critical infrastructure primarily by regulatory demands and oversight and the criticality of the financial technology they provide to the bank for the markets and clients it serves. Strict regulations regularly force change through ongoing compliance, and in many cases, CIOs and their teams have limited time to analyze and understand the impact this will have on their systems. The need to design and test for these changes quickly to meet the regulatory deadlines creates major demand on their resources. Coupled with this is the ongoing need to adapt new technologies to meet new demands of the business and clients they serve. There is also a need for a more joined up and collaborative approach to testing between the banks and their vendors and testing partners.Otoma's approach is to deliver a common and shared knowledge base technology with intelligent automation that understands the industry, regulation, banks specific processes, and the way software supplier applications process. Having greater intelligence, automation, and collaboration in their ability to test for these demands can help CIO's address the challenges and improve their ability to deliver change more quickly, efficiently and with greater accuracy and confidence in the outcomes they are striving for.Could you shed some light on your range of software testing solutions, the methodology of their implementation, features and benefits involved?The Otoma Platform enables financial institutions to accelerate and simplify the testing of packaged vendor software and industry specific solutions. Taking payment processing systems as our starting point, it combines deep knowledge of common payment processing applications and end2end integration points with a library of use-cases and test-cases that reflect this knowledge. This enables banks to start testing from an advanced position, accelerating their testing strategies and giving greater confidence in what they are testing and the outcomes they can expect. It will also offer a testing framework and infrastructure, knowledge base and toolset, that will allow greater collaboration and cohesion OTOMA BANKING PLATFORM PROCESS FLOW
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