Swiss Life

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Case study | Swiss Life
Customer solution
at a glance
Applications
A number of internally-developed
applications (Java™/web)
Microsoft Dynamics
SAP
Software
• HP Quality Center
• HP Business Process Testing
• HP Unied Functional Testing
• HP Project and Portfolio
Management Center
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The current process is as follows: new
functionalities are rst manually tested; it
can then be immediately determined whether
the automation of the regression tests will be
worthwhile. If this is the case, the test case is
then automated directly afterwards.
Thanks to the high degree of automation,
software testers at Swiss Life are now
more focused on tasks requiring specialist
expertise. “Today we have signicantly more
time to rigorously test new requirements,”
says Zimmermann. “In the past, we were
unable to test such highly-complex subjects
as we didn’t have enough time.”
According to Zimmermann, this stronger
business orientation has raised the prole
of the test team: “We replaced the previous
Excel reports with detailed management
reports generated by HP Quality Center. In
the past the test team was seen as group
to carry out regression tests. We’ve nally
distanced ourselves from this perception.”
“We’d never have been able to
take advantage of the
automation if we had not
implemented everything so
consistently. Today, we’re
able to continuously
assemble all modules for test
cases which cover a range of
dierent congurations.
This generates huge
time-savings.”
– Elisabeth Zimmermann, test team manager of
the Competence Center at Swiss Life
The HP Business Process Testing software
means specialist departments have almost
no testing to do, leaving them free to
concentrate on their main tasks. Also when
it comes to new functionalities, they now
receive better support from the Test Center.
More importantly, Swiss Life is more
condent it is going live with error-free
software, improving its ability to assess
error risk.
“Our software quality has improved since the
introduction of HP Business Process Testing
software,” says Zimmerman. “We’re now
able to detect software errors during the test
phases, not after it is already in use.”
Thanks to the high degree of automation,
Swiss Life is also paving the way for agile
software development methods: the rst
Scrum projects are already underway and
HP Quality Center and HP Business Process
Testing are being integrated.
This Scrum development is heralding a
paradigm shift for the Swiss insurance
company. The aim is to develop and put small
software packages live, quickly in future. The
rst Scrum projects included, for example,
the introduction of Microsoft® Dynamics.
Zimmermann sees this as an advantage for
her test team: “We are brought into projects
at an earlier stage and can therefore start
to develop the regression tests immediately
and consistently.”
Learn more at
hp.com/go/qualitycenter