The mission-critical nature of mainframe applications makes it imperative to carry out substantial testing before updates are released into production. Pre-production testing can only be scheduled according to available capacity. If that is limited, the timely delivery of updates to the business is impacted. What is needed is flexibility to increase capacity easily and quickly to speed up application change.
Increase test capacity and accelerate time to delivery
Test Server removes the constraints caused by mainframe processing power limits and scales test capacity to meet business demands. In addition, Test Server expands the test environment beyond traditional test teams to include business users and developers.
Contain costs
By scaling up test capacity on a low cost commodity platform, Test Server removes the need for substantial investment in new mainframe MIPS, and reduces mainframe MIPS consumption as more testing is performed on Test Server
Improve quality and accelerate innovation
Identifying issues earlier in the development cycle, reduces the need for costly rework and increases the amount of testing that can be accomplished in shorter time frames. In addition, Java and .NET programmers gain a more responsive and accessible environment to perform testing on.