1. CONNECT WITH US:
IT: Customized to Your Advantage
BA 360 – Faster Better
Cheaper QA
Lakshminarayanan KN
Associate Software Engineer
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2. CONNECT WITH US:
Business Assurance – The Evolution
• Testing services have evolved from being a business
enabler to a business differentiator
• Role of IT is no longer to support business functions
• IT shares the onus for the business outcomes and often
responsible for superior customer experience, retention
and acquisition
• QA practices and systems have to evolve in a way that we
provide competitive advantage
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No single source of truth for Business
Processes, Applications & Integrations
Tester’s lack business perspective
Inefficient Test Design
Test intelligence and analytics non existent
Next Generation Testing Challenges

4. CONNECT WITH US: 4
No Single Source of Truth
01 Growing IT Applications
option
04 Concurrent Business
Changes - Projects
option
02 Rapid Application
Evolution
option
03 Knowledge
Management
option

5. CONNECT WITH US:
Tester’s Lack Business Perspective
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Profitability
Key products
Customer experience
Competitive differentiators
Key customers
Revenue
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6. CONNECT WITH US:
Inefficient Test Design
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01 Lack of Comprehensive Business
Knowledge
02 Long Test Design Phase
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Insufficient coverage
04 Defect seepage
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Lacks knowledge of an Impact of a
feature on the system
Lost Business
Confidence

7. CONNECT WITH US:
Test Intelligence
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Component Dependencies
Feature Traceability
Change Impact
Test Coverage
Defect Data

8. CONNECT WITH US:
How to get a peace of mind ?
What if I told you that there is a tool which can solve most of
your problems
 Will automatically tell you how to select tests
 Will help you find more defects very early
 Will generate test cases quicker than ever
 Will provide the maximum test coverage
 Will help you select the correct regression test cases
Isn’t this a saviour !!!
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9. CONNECT WITH US:
Tester’s Lack Business Perspective – Our Solution
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Capture business
benefits
Prioritize
requirements
Exploratory Test
Design to verify
Business Benefits
Validate and
Certify the
solution based on
business benefits
realized
Map business
benefits to
requirements
Map business
benefits to the
solution
Business process
and data
variations review
by the Business
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10. CONNECT WITH US: 10
BA360- Test design Components
1. Requirements
2. Business Process Hierarchy
3. Application Hierarchy
4. Integrations
5. Business Assurance Design
• Equivalence classes
• Decision Tables
• Exploratory
6. Test Cases

11. CONNECT WITH US:
Business outcomes & Requirements
 Business need of the project
translates to Business
outcomes
 Some common Business
outcomes could be Enhanced
User experience, increased
revenue, Customer retention
and so on
 Requirements can be obtained
from BRD, FRD, SDD or user
stories
 They can be imported/ added
in BA-360
 Tag requirements to Business
outcomes
 Perform Risk bases
assessment
 Decide Test types and levels
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12. CONNECT WITH US:
Business Process Hierarchy
 A business process is an activity or set
of activities that will accomplish a
specific organizational goal
 A Business process may have one or
more secondary or Sub-processes to
achieve the business goal
 The Business processes have to be
mapped with one another to provide a
proper Business Hierarchy
 Business process hierarchy forms the
integral part of test design since it
influences the Business outcomes of
every project
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Application hierarchy
 Application hierarchy is the
record of all the Systems in the
Enterprise IT architecture
 It specifies all the Transactions
that the applications are
capable of performing
 Each of the Transactions are a
part of the earlier described
Business process hierarchy
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Integration
 In a complex Enterprise IT
architecture many systems
have to be integrated to
accomplish the Business
functions
 This is achieved by creating
complex integration between
applications
 Comprises of Source and
Target systems and a
Middleware service(FMW,
Informatica etc.)
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15. CONNECT WITH US:
Test Design techniques
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Boundary Value
Analysis
Equivalence
Class
Partitioning
All Pairs or Pair-
wise Testing
Domain Analysis
Decision Tables

16. CONNECT WITH US:
Generating Test cases
• Define Test steps for the transaction
• Generate Test cases for any of the below mapping
 Business Process Hierarchy
 Application hierarchy
 Integration
 Requirements
• Use the proper test design technique for performing the
test case generation
• Export the Test case library to export the test cases
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17. CONNECT WITH US:
Thank you !
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