We offer significant productivity improvements when testing mainframes. Our mainframe offering combines a toolkit and consulting.

You can use an automated tool which is designed for Mainframe Testing OR you can save yourself some money and use our mainframe toolkit. Our toolkit uses Microsoft Visual Basic or even Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), which is part of Microsoft Office. This allows you to use the power and ease-of-use of Scenario Tester with the power of Visual Basic at a fraction of the cost of automated testing tools.

In addition you can create an executable and make automated testing available to an unlimited number of testers, users and developers. For example, you now have the ability to have every developer run test scripts as part of their unit test and there is no extra cost to purchase additional licences for the automated test tool.

Consulting services

If you are scripting a mainframe application, we highly recommend that you purchase our consulting services and the toolkit.

Our consulting services are designed to make sure that your mainframe testing is successful. It is part training and part making any adjustments to our scripts to make sure that they work in your mainframe environment.

The length of consulting that we offer really depends on the client’s needs. Some clients want us to script their whole applications, others want us to get the ball rolling and transfer the work quickly and others want a proof of concept before starting the full scale scripting of their mainframe application. Talk to us and we can tailor an arrangement to meet your needs and maximize your chance to succeed.

Mainframe toolkit

The mainframe testing tool kit, which comes with our consulting services, provides you with many functions that enhance your script writing.

The Scenario Tester approach works with:

•	IBM Mainframes (3270, 5250 emulations)
•	Unix (VT100,220,320, 420 emulations)
•	Tandem (6530 conversational and block-mode emulations)

The toolkit supports many types of emulators, the minimal requirement being that they support the HLLAPI specification, or one of its variants. However, it also supports other access methods such as an object interface. Most modern emulators easily meet this criterion, and even if you don't have such an emulator, we can recommend one.

The mainframe testing toolkit contains:

•	Screen Scrapers to analyze mainframe screens and build most of your code
•	Sample scripts
•	Scripts to perform comparisons
•	Functions that
	•	Input values into screens
	•	Pull values from screens and test against expected results
	•	Handle tables
	•	Pull error messages

Our services and toolkit will save you a geat deal of time, energy and resources in automating your mainframe testing.