IRUG 2014 Innovation Award

International Retail User Group ConferenceMay 18-21

2014Orlando, FL

Automated Testing Tool

Mrs. Connie Driscoll Managing Director CDA, RHISCOM’s Representativeconnie@cdriscollassociates.com

For POS applications

37th Annual Conference

Innovation Award

• AUTOMATON, new technology, to "retail industry" service, fully automated testing tool capable of certifying a POS application based on a simple principle "having a known input to obtain the expected output". Safer, faster and unattended. Manually work of several weeks is now got automatically just in few hours with reliable results without requiring peripherals, stationery and other supplies.

• Avoids overtime, no more investment in peripherals for testing, reducing significantly power consumption and required space, as well.

• Multi-platform, multi-channel, non invasive.

• The service is performed by a basic group that consists in 1 (one) operational analyst and 1 (one) robot AUTOMATON.

• A new technology aimed to give support not only to the QA Area, but also to programming departments and to operational area.

37th Annual Conference

Innovation Award

Manual Testing Process Conditions:- QA Head count…………................8 - Test cases, number……………………...1,600- Testers……………………………...5 - Number of cycle per year…………………….4 - POS QA laboratories…………..…5 - Time per cycle…………………………………3 weeks- Go to market, revision no tested - No track record of defects- Data on excel, hard copies

Automate Testing Process Conditions- QA Head count………….................3 - Test cases number…………………..….1,780- Testers……………………………...1 - Number of cycle per year……………..……. n - POS QA laboratories……………..1 - Time per cycle…………………………….…24 hrs. - Tested revisions, “go to market” …1 day - Test cases and track records on data base- AUTOMATON…………...……..1

Note: All former testers were moved to production/programming

CUSTOMER

1

Actual customer results

37th Annual Conference

Innovation Award

Manual Testing Process Conditions:- POS QA Head count……............10 - Test cases, number…………………….....800- Testers………………………………4 - Number of cycle per year…………………… 2 - POS QA laboratories…………..….2 - Time per cycle………………………………1 Night - Go to market, revision no tested - For testing they move 150 people to a large store- Data on excel, hard copies - No track record of defects

Automate Testing Process Conditions- QA Head count………….................3 - Test cases number……………………….960- Testers……………………………...1 - Number of cycle per year…………….……. n - POS QA laboratories…………..…1 - Time per cycle…………………….…………8 hrs. - Tested revisions, “go to market” ..6 hrs - Test cases and track record on data base- AUTOMATON…………...…………2 units (QA and programming)

CUSTOMER

2

Note: All former testers were moved to production/programming

Actual customer results

37th Annual Conference

Innovation Award

• Automation process is 95% shorter than the manual one

• AUTOMATON is 14 times faster on execution

• Also in mistakes/failures detection and effectiveness.

• It produces 76% savings on headcount QA payroll amounts.

• At least, 83% savings on peripherals and stationery.

37th Annual Conference

Innovation Award

Timing implementation

Pilot 6 weeks

Start up 14 weeksService by annual contract

Please contact us rhiscom.com / cda.com

Thank you!