Overview McCain Inc. develops and produces advanced traffic control equipment and intelligent trans-portation systems for the business of keeping traffic in motion and supporting the growing mobility needs of society through a complete range of traffic management products, ser-vices, and solutions. As part of the SWARCO group, with more than 80 member companies across the globe, McCain Inc. has direct access to a vast global network of intelligent transpor-tation solutions.

ChallengeTo support and manage the traffic lights, signs, and controller cabinets, software plays a vital

role. Timing is key, as no-one wants to be kept waiting in traffic unnecessarily, so McCain Inc. software generates optimal signal timing parameters. It analyzes real-time traffic condi-tions, dynamically calculates the optimal signal timing, and measures performance, including high-resolution data reporting. The data is ana-lyzed and kept, in case it is needed in accident investigations, to support court cases.

Tom Hart, Test Automation Architect/Manager at McCain Inc., explains why software testing needs to be at the center of the software de-velopment process: “Before I arrived at McCain Inc., all software testing was done manually, as in many organizations. New functionality test-ing would obviously take priority, often at the expense of regression testing, to ensure that new functionality hasn’t had an adverse effect on existing features. It was clear to everyone involved that test automation would help enor-mously and I evaluated several solutions.

We needed a solution which could expand to our needs, as we use different development languages and I foresaw a requirement for web and mobile device testing as well. I have a long personal history with Silk Test™ and have im-plemented it at more than 15 companies over the last 25 years. I have seen the product grow over time and knew what it could deliver for McCain Inc.”

McCain Inc.Scalable and automated software testing process increases customer satisfaction and improves productivity.

At a Glance

Industry

Manufacturing

Location

CA, USA

Challenge

Introduce automated software testing including regression testing to improve code quality and enhance customer satisfaction.

Solution

Use Silk Test to introduce a structured, automated, recoverable, testing process.

Results

+ Increased customer satisfaction ratings through higher code quality

+ Expandable testing solution across many platforms and languages

+ Night-time automated testing with full self-recovery features

+ Superior product support

Customer Success StorySilk Test

“Silk Test is a great tool which has proven its worth to me time and time again through its expandability, and its cost-effective efficiency. The Micro Focus support is just superb and I love the fact that I can always get an immediate answer to any query I may have.”

TOM HARTTest Automation Architect/ManagerMcCain Inc.

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SolutionSilk Test was soon implemented and one of the first projects was to introduce structured auto-mated regression testing, with Error/Testcase Application State Recovery. The development process did not need to change as Silk Test can easily connect with existing tools in use within McCain Inc., including build servers, source control, and test management systems. McCain Inc. developers can use their preferred IDE of Microsoft TFS or Eclipse, because IDE inte-grations support current tools and processes without disruption.

Hart comments: “The self-recovery aspect of Silk Test means that we run the majority of our automated testing during the night-time, which helps improve our productivity, and makes ef-ficient use of the technology we have available. Silk Test is also flexible and I was able to set up Summary, Detailed, and High Level Reporting within it. This gives us several at-a-glance op-tions to review which tests have run, and what the results were.”

Hart uses Silk Test for what-if scenario testing: “We run tests which can have a positive and/or negative outcome. It is important for us to make sure that when the wrong data is entered our traffic controllers will fail and an error message is returned. Silk Test helps ensure this.”

ResultsThe automated testing process with Silk Test has ensured a higher code quality, resulting in increased confidence and customer satisfac-tion ratings. The software testing now includes full regression testing, as well as functional and what-if scenario testing.

Hart concludes: “Silk Test is a great tool which has proven its worth to me time and time again through its expandability, and its cost-effective efficiency. The Micro Focus® support is just su-perb and I love the fact that I can always get an immediate answer to any query I may have.”

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“The self-recovery aspect of Silk Test means that we run the majority of our automated testing during the night-time,

which helps improve our productivity, and makes efficient use of the technology we have available to us.”

TOM HARTTest Automation Architect/Manager

McCain Inc.

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