In today’s software-driven world, the speed and quality of delivery directly impact business outcomes, from time-to-market to cost efficiency. Yet, despite advancements in tools and methodologies, most enterprises struggle to deliver high-quality software at pace.
Curiosity Software has introduced a new approach to addressing these challenges, dividing software delivery into the inner and outer loops. The inner loop focuses on developers' day-to-day tasks like writing code. The outer loop includes critical activities such as requirements gathering, testing, environment provisioning, and test data management. Although the outer loop operates on a longer timeline, it is mission-critical for feeding the inner loop with the assets needed to deliver quality software outcomes at speed.
TestRail’s connected QA platform streamlines test planning, execution, reporting, and integration management. When integrated with Curiosity Software’s Enterprise Test Data platform, it boosts productivity and software quality throughout the delivery lifecycle. Combining TestRail’s test management capabilities with Curiosity’s platform for enterprise test data and quality, ensures that delivery stays aligned. Together, these tools drive faster, more reliable, and compliant releases, helping enterprises to consistently deliver high-quality software at speed.
About the integration
The integration between Curiosity Software’s Enterprise Test Data® platform and TestRail drives quality and productivity across software delivery by solving two of the biggest bottlenecks enterprises face when delivering software—quality and data.
Curiosity Software’s platform integrates seamlessly with TestRail, automating many of the most time-consuming tasks in software delivery. This integration eliminates the traditional bottlenecks in the outer loop, such as manual test data creation, test maintenance, traceability, regulatory reporting, and more. This integration also ensures that testing is up-to-date with the latest business requirements and code changes. Key features include:
- Automated test data provisioning: Automatically generates and provisions test data based on real-world scenarios, ensuring accurate and robust test cases.
- Continuous artifact creation: Integrates requirements and test plans directly from visual models, reducing manual input and enhancing traceability.
- Regulatory compliance: Simplifies the generation of regulatory reports by automating audit trails and ensuring that compliance standards are met throughout the development lifecycle.
- Accelerated testing cycles: Reduces testing cycle times by ensuring up-to-date, dynamic test data and synchronized test cases across the pipeline.
Benefits of using Curiosity's platform with TestRail
By combining Curiosity Software’s Enterprise Test Data® platform with TestRail, enterprises gain a powerful, automated approach to software testing and quality management. The integration provides four primary benefits:
- Enhanced efficiency and speed: Automating critical tasks such as test case generation, test data provisioning, and test maintenance significantly reduces manual effort. This allows teams to accelerate testing cycles, deliver software faster, and eliminate the bottlenecks traditionally associated with manual processes.
- Comprehensive test coverage with realistic data: The integration ensures test cases are generated directly from detailed visual models of requirements, ensuring full coverage of business scenarios. By automatically overlaying real-world test data, the tests become more robust and relevant, leading to higher-quality software with fewer defects in production.
- Scalability and continuous adaptation: The integration supports large, complex projects by scaling effortlessly to handle extensive test cases. As requirements and code evolve, test cases are automatically maintained and updated. This adaptability enables alignment with development, fostering a more agile and responsive software delivery process.
How the integration works
The integration between Curiosity Software’s platform and TestRail automates key processes across the outer loop of software delivery. This integration helps enterprises ensure that testing, data, and requirements are always aligned with the latest code changes.
Here's how it works:
1. Visual modelling of requirements: Curiosity’s platform allows you to visually model requirements, helping you define test scenarios in a structured and clear manner. These visual models serve as the foundation for creating a robust set of test cases that align with business requirements and development efforts.
2. Automatic generation of test cases: Based on the visual models, Curiosity’s platform generates a comprehensive set of test cases that cover various business scenarios. These test cases are designed to ensure maximum coverage and accuracy. Once generated, they are exported directly into TestRail, ensuring seamless integration between requirement models and test management.
3. Test data overlay and export: To ensure realistic and robust testing, Curiosity’s platform overlays test data onto the generated test cases. This data is provisioned automatically and reflects real-world conditions, ensuring that the test cases are not only comprehensive but also meaningful. Once enriched, the test cases are then exported to TestRail for execution and tracking.
Curious how it all fits together? Explore TestRail with a 30-day free trial and see how it integrates with Curiosity Software to eliminate testing bottlenecks.
Align test data to your evolving CoE
Join Huw Price, Co-Founder & Chairman at Curiosity Software, and Chris Faraglia, Solution Architect at TestRail, as they guide you through transforming your testing approach with a data-first mindset, in our upcoming webinar.
