Reduces Risks

• Reduces the risk of application failure in production mode
• Extended testing coverage ensures that bugs are discovered before going into production
• Automation reduces the potential for human error in the testing process
• Testing scenarios are stored and saved for repeated use
• MF-Test is based on mature technology used by mainframe developers around the world 

Reduces the demand for computing resources for testing

Provides a mechanism to handle multiple testers who have their own unique test environments in the same CICS region

• Multiple concurrent users can test the same or different applications and can share test scenarios and environments
• The same database can serve all testers
• Each tester has their own view of the database
• Testers are separated from each other
• The testing repository is in an SQL server and not on the mainframe
• The mainframe is only used for running the tests
• These features reduce the number of CICS regions required to support testing

Facilitates upgrades to system software and hardware

 MF-Test supports application validation and verification

• Supports the validation and verification of application functions that can be affected by system upgrades
• MF-Test stores and compares application results before and after upgrading the system
• Relevant scenarios can be stored once and rerun every time a system upgrade occurs

Verification of Disaster Recovery (DR) site

 MF-Test supports the DR site verification process

• Provides a fast, efficient method for comparing production systems with backup and disaster recovery systems
• MF-Test allows for encapsulation of application test scenarios used to validate a DR site by comparing it with the primary production site
• Mf-Test supports running the same test scenarios at multiple remote sites