Integration Testing with System Provider Collaboration
Meena Shah, Lucia Ramos, Elisa Rouhiainen
CONNECT.
COLLABORATE.
INNOVATE.
Plan for Success
Show of Hands…
Remember Implementing Your PDS
Solution?
PDS Implementation
 Communication
 Exception
Handling
 Revert Operations
When Things Go Wrong
 Communication
 Exception
Handling
 Revert Operations
Taking the Leap Towards Automation
Standards…
Why Is Integration So Hard?
Reverting Operations Exposes the Gap in
Testing & Training
Automation Brings Changing Roles
Quay Take Away
Automation Requires a Change in Philosophy
What’s the Formula for Success?
Modularity in the Design
Well-Defined Interfaces
I N T E R F A C E
Dealing with the “Unknown Unknowns”
Avoid the Blame Game!
Quay Take Away
“Good Fences Make Good Neighbors”
-Robert Frost, from “Mending Wall”
Training, Training, Training
The Training Schedule
Simulation & Emulation
Quay Take Away
Training Needs to Be Part of the Plan
New Vacancy
Orchestrating the Plan
We’re All on the Same Side
Quay Take Away
The System Integrator Is Crucial
Show of hands… How Many 3rd Party Systems
Integrate With Your TOS?
 1-2
 3-5
 5+
Simple Add on – Easy Integration?
NavisReady
A Better Approach Towards Product
Integration
 Goes beyond the customer project
implementation
 “An extension of the product”
 Allows more focus on the customer specific
testing
Benefit From the Experience
Quay Take Away
Invest in Early Integration
Looking Back From the Other Side
Quay Take Away
Partnership: We All Succeed or Fail Together