Micro Focus has released Micro Focus Test Server that will accelerate testing processes while reducing operating costs. Customers are implementing Micro Focus Test Server to enable them to improve software quality by increasing available mainframe test capacity on a Windows platform. Micro Focus Test Server is an IBM z/OS compatible environment where application execution behaves just as it would on the target production mainframe. This makes it possible to perform a broad range of pre-production testing on readily available hardware. Testing capacity can now be easily increased to meet business-critical timeframes without incurring prohibitive costs.
Eddie Houghton, Product Director, Micro Focus said, "There are significant numbers of IBM mainframes in use across the world and 76 per cent of CIOs view them as integral to their business today. Applications running on IBM mainframes are nearly always business-critical. It is therefore crucial to provide sufficient test cycles to ensure the software meets the demands of the business and its customers."
José Caetano Pereira, Senior IT Manager, BES said, "We needed to find an innovative solution that would facilitate higher quality, scalable testing. By detecting errors earlier in the software development lifecycle, we will be able to deliver changes faster and deliver more robust software through to the User Acceptance Test phase and subsequent production."
