Thanks for the tip on the Test Factory purchase. I had heard that WorkSoft were working on adding performance testing to their repertoire, but I didn’t know the details. From the press release, it would appear that Test Factory’s technology will be the vehicle for that.

If, as you say, the Test Factory technology is superior to Certify, we can only hope that those advances will not be completely removed from the market, but rather find their way into WorkSoft’s core product.

Certify is certainly not a record/replay technology, and you seem to indicate that Test Factory is. This gives you a lot of flexibility with Certify, though it makes test case building more tedious than Record & Replay. In truth, there is very little in the way of looping and basic if/then functionality that you cannot do with Certify. Some of the members of our team have described building a Certify test case as “programming by point-and-click.” The upside is flexibility, the downside is that flexibility increases complexity.

In a perfect world, and Certify may get there one day, we could Record an SAP test through Certify and then go back and add in the variables, recordsets, if/then forks, etc. That would let you quickly “scaffold” a test case and then go back and make it robust.

On another note, we are half-way through our ECC6 upgrade and things have been going very well using Certify through this process. I intend on giving a post mortem here on WhyPad when it’s all said and done. Knock on wood!

Byron

Bill Simpson