Quality Assurance is the only way to ensure reliable, error-free deployments

Dramatically Reduce Deployment Risks

Even if an application or patch is properly packaged and customized, it needs to be thoroughly tested prior to deployment. Quality assurance is the only way to reduce rollout risk and ensure applications and patches deploy error free.

Despite the value of quality assurance, many organizations believe it to be time consuming and expensive, but with the right tools it isn't. Wise Package Studio Quality Assurance provides a complete set of automated testing tools that make testing in the real-world and lab environment fast, accurate and economical.

Dramatically Reduce Deployment Risks

Testing installations in a lab environment with a structured, systematic test plan is a good starting point for quality assurance. With the lab environment, however, it is impossible to simulate every potential desktop configuration, leaving your deployment open to failure.

Wise Package Studio Quality Assurance is the only product offering a comprehensive model that covers all aspects of quality assurance, including an easy and risk-free way to test in the real-world environment.

• Dramatically reduce the risk of application and patch rollouts and successfully deploy the first time
• Minimize testing and deployment impact on systems and end users
• Customize testing activities to meet your unique corporate requirements and production environment
• Quickly prepare deployments with streamlined, standardized testing procedures
• Substantially reduce help desk costs due to increased reliability and standardization
• Markedly increase IT efficiency with structured testing environments and plans

Structured Test Plans and Preflight Deployment

Quality Assurance helps you conduct the appropriate level of testing with:

Preflight Deployment, a revolutionary new technology that allows you to determine—before deployment—if an installation will succeed or fail by testing it in your real-world environment. See why deployments fail on specific machines without disrupting end users or endangering your production environment.

• Preflight instrumentation takes the package to be tested and creates a "zero touch," or simulation, package that tests appropriate conditions for the application or patch
• Your existing distribution system is used to push out the package
• The zero touch package simulates the installation on the actual destination machine without making any changes to the machine, and then reports results back to a central server
• Preflight Analysis displays a variety of test reports, from high-level analysis to detailed results for specific errors or specific PCs  

Test Expert, a structured, intelligent approach to testing, automatically generates a master test plan and guides you through multiple test cases for system level package testing. This is achieved by:

• Verifying resources used by an application or patch are actually included in the package, reducing the possibility of application errors after distribution
• Validating the application or patch uses isolated versions of shared .DLL and .OCX files
• Identifying permission issues that could prevent end users from accessing the application
• Producing four types of customizable test cases: installation, uninstallation, verification and execution  

Customizable validation rules. The Package Validation tool, helps you identify package problems in seconds by walking you through the validation process. The validation rules are fully customizable, so you can set rules such as:

• Ensuring the package contains no hard-coded paths
• Verifying the package does not overwrite files included in the standard operating environment  

Quality Assurance is available as a stand-alone product and as part of the Wise Package Studio suite of products.