Overview

What is IBM® Rational® Test Workbench?

IBM Rational Test Workbench provides software testing tools to support a DevOps approach: API testing, functional UI testing, performance testing and service virtualization. It helps you automate and run tests earlier and more frequently to discover errors sooner — when they are less costly to fix.

Benefits

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Reduce error-prone, manual testing

Automate all types of tests: traditional functional/regression, mobile and integration technology, and more.
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Simplify user experience

A fully integrated authoring environment provides a consistent user experience across a variety of domains.
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Find defects earlier

Don't wait for everything to be available to start testing; create virtual components and start testing right away.
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Work with your current tools

Integrate with other tools to create test scenarios, including mobile, web, and traditional desktop apps.
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Improve quality

Integrate with IBM Rational Quality Manager to improve the return of test efforts.

Features

IBM Rational Test Workbench key features

Simplify test creation with code-free authoring

Story-board testing simplifies the creation of functional and regression tests, combining natural language test narrative with visual editing.

Script-less, visual performance test and workload models

Automatic management of dynamic server responses accelerates the delivery of large-scale performance test suites.

Continuous integration testing

Develop service-level tests by recording existing system behavior, using Business Process Execution Language models or modeling data exchange in the visual test designer.

Emulate workloads accurately with realistic user scenarios

The graphical workload scheduler in Rational Test Workbench simplifies the modeling of different user groups and load conditions.

Extensibility and support for standards and protocols

Extensibility features, including Java code insertion, custom data transformations, and user interface proxy software development kit, enable you to adapt legacy or custom services.

Flexible pricing and deployment

The IBM consumption model is based on FlexPoints, which can be purchased and allocated according to business needs.

Testimonials

The IBM Rational solution simplifies functional and regression testing for more rapid project delivery.

Gary Thornhill
General Manager
Sandhata Technologies Ltd.

We estimate that Rational Test Workbench reduces the time required to validate ‘rate filing’ by 94%, from 5,600 hours to 320 hours, and prior to this software, manual testing represented 67% of the total rate filing time.


Insurance provider
Insurance industry

PointSource’s ability to translate our business objectives into a mobile strategy enabled us to deliver a solution that adds value to our existing customers, and is a differentiator for us to attract new customers as well.

Scott Liberatore
President and CEO
Financial Insurance Management Corp.

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