Increases testing efficiency

 Provides tools to support:

• Creating test scenarios
• Generating and invoking batch and online test jobs
• Storing screens and test results
• Performing intelligent comparisons
• Generating management reports
• Storing audit trails.

A user-friendly Windows GUI is the focal point for all testing  activity

• Applications in various languages that access various types of databases
• Play, pause and stop buttons enable the same scenario to be easily replayed after making changes

Supports Parallel testing

• Users can run multiple concurrent tests at multiple remote test sites
• Each tester works in his own environment without affecting the resources of other testers

Tests more effectively

• One single product handles both online and batch test scenarios

 Centralized aggregation of test scenarios and results

• All test scenarios and selected test results are stored centrally for easy
  future reference
• Relevant information from databases, VSAM files, sequential datasets, reports and 3270 screens is stored in a central repository
  
• MF-Test enables management of large testing teams with testers at multiple sites.

'Smart' tools to analyze results

 Intelligent 'compares' of results

• Intelligently compares data, screens, databases, sequential files and reports
  generated by the 'Before' and 'After' versions of an application

 A built-in results analyzer

• identifies mismatches at the field, column and character levels to ensure that application functionality and appearance remain completely unchanged – unless change is intended
• Fields to be ignored can be flagged
• Fields can be flagged as key fields