End of Software, The: Finding Security, Flexibility, and Profit in the On Demand Future

Next-generation Testing

The software on demand model ends the traditional testing that consumes enormous resources. At Oracle, we are extracting key business flows from production environments. These business flows are used during the unit and system testing of our applications. Consider the implications of this step:

• The software company reduces the cost of testing. Rather than hiring a test engineer to write fictional tests, the tests are actual business flows.
• The tests are much more effective because they model real-world usage of the software. Clearly, this benefits not only the On Demand customer, but also the traditional customer.
• As On Demand customers are moved to the next major release, the risk is significantly minimized with software ...