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Test Automation for Mission-Critical Enterprise Software

The all-in-one solution for end-to-end test automation of your key business systems and enterprise applications.

 

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Scale Your Deployment with
Confidence

Introducing test automation into your homegrown or packaged software means building and executing tests specific to your operations which takes time and effort. Many test automation solutions on the market support web UX and API through public-cloud hosted platforms, but are challenged by mission critical enterprise processes that are executed behind strict network security.

Enterprise apps commonly utilize multiple interfaces across web, native desktop, API, and telnet/green screen - not to mention the various backend database storage interfaces needed to validate outcomes against business requirements. As a result, multi-tiered enterprise systems with dynamic business logic are very difficult to test with "no code" model-based test automation solutions.

Scale Your Deployment With Confidence

We build test cases using a low-code, behavior-driven development (BDD)-based language that we call Cyclescript. The Cycle platform accelerates your test automation efforts through pre-built utilities and saves you thousands of hours as you implement new modules or your client requirements change. 

 

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Built by Enterprise Implementation Veterans for Enterprise Teams
Built by Enterprise Implementation Veterans for Enterprise Teams

Cycle is designed from the ground up to be scalable to every deployment, customizable for every business process, extensible to support every unique requirement, and maintainable for a constantly evolving enterprise environment. It is composed of hundreds of prewritten utilities as well as the reusable building blocks that can be assembled to fit your business process and vendor of choice. Whether you have a best-of-breed packaged system or a homegrown solution, Cycle can power your test automation efforts to help you expand with reduced risk.

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The Cycle Platform

Cycle is your all-in-one testing solution. While many automated testing solutions require multiple applications and interfaces to stress test and validate various systems and interfaces, Cycle was built for easy, comprehensive testing for all of your systems in one easy-to-use platform.

The Cycle Platform

Cycle is your all-in-one testing solution. While many automated testing solutions require multiple applications and interfaces to stress test and validate various systems and interfaces, Cycle was built for easy, comprehensive testing for all of your systems in one easy-to-use platform.

Cycle Platform

Continuous
Testing

Incorporate Cycle into your CI/CD workflow alongside solutions like Jenkins, Bamboo, and more to focus on deploying value rather than focusing on test maintenance.

Functional Testing

Orchestrate Test
Execution

Cycle is highly configurable, and allows you to design your automation pipeline to meet your testing requirements.

Cycle Platform

Test at
Volume

Patented volume testing functionality, allows for scalable parallel testing while simulating accurate day-in-the-life style testing. Address and avoid disruptions before customers are impacted.

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Reduce Risk as Processes Change

Cycle’s unique ability to embed continuous testing into the development, upgrade, and deployment process ensures you can easily visualize and understand any business risks associated with your latest system changes.

Cycle Platform

Service Hours Included
with Cycle

If you’re in need of specialized scripts for your WMS or help with the implementation process, we can act as subject matter experts to estimate how long customization will take and help reduce time of service. Learn more about our test automation services.

Cycle Platform

Team Powered
Testing

Cycle encourages team-powered testing because better communication is the key to valuable testing, and ultimately seamless deployments.

 

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Test Automation a Replacement for Manual Testing?

No, test automation is not a replacement for all manual testing. Like many other forms of automation, the goal is to reduce the burden of repetitive and highly-technical tasks on human team members. Mission-critical enterprise processes often play out over multiple interfaces (not just web or API like consumer applications) and require data validation in addition to the user experience to ensure business requirements are satisfied. In addition, regression testing and load testing of high-impact processes is difficult to perform over dozens or hundreds of code releases and is an ideal use case for test automation.

We recommend an initial review of process impact to ensure the proper mix of manual vs automated test coverage. Contact us to learn more about how we can help with a testing strategy assessment.

Can't Our In-House Team Build Their Own Solution Using a Framework Like Selenium?

They certainly can! In fact, software test automation providers like Cycle use the same browser web drivers that are available to your developers. While these open-source implementations are ideal for one-time projects (especially web), aggressive project timelines with complex business requirements often result in a large burden being placed on in-house development and QA resources. In these cases, a purpose-built test automation solution can provide significant direct and indirect ROI over the course of a multi-year deployment.

Cycle’s platform includes hundreds of pre-built utilities that empower your IT and QA teams to get started right away with building end-to-end tests across all required interfaces and our Cloud Appliance facilitates high-volume load testing at scale under simulated real-world conditions.

How Does Cycle Compare to Model-Based Test Automation Solutions?

There are many companies that attempt to abstract the difficulties of test automation by saying they are “script-less.” The general understanding in the industry is that a “script” means programming and that means expensive personnel and high-maintenance. Most companies attempt to abstract the difficulties of test scripting by abstracting the script themselves and displaying a UI layer that feels more approachable than a traditional test script. The most modern version of this approach is called model-based testing. In model-based testing, the solution may scan a given application and produce a web-form style presentation layer that allows non-technical users to input test data without seeing any underlying scripting or coding. Sometimes, these solutions are smart enough to automatically adjust when the underlying system-under-test changes. The proposal here is that these changes being automatically updated reduces “script maintenance.”

Cycle focuses on enforcing better communication through a specific set of behavior-driven activities and practices where teams verbally communicate, discuss, and develop test documents as a group before system changes are made. These same documents are executable test documents, which provide significantly more value than a traditional model-based abstraction because they provide context, traceability, and understanding of the underlying process being tested. Cycle’s modern and approachable UI allows these documents to be used for regression testing by building playlists and group tests that can be run in serial or parallel execution via a task schedule or in integration with common CI/CD platforms like Jenkins or TeamCity. Cycle is the only behavior-focused testing platform on the market today that allows for authoring and execution of tests in the same approachable UI.

Learn more about test automation for your key business applications

Contact our team to learn more about how Cycle can benefit your business, and request a demo today.

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