The 10 Steps for Effective Mainframe Testing

It is without a doubt that DevOps has come to the mainframe. Any company that currently runs a mainframe platform is either in the process of transforming mainframe development or has already transformed their mainframe development to using DevOps. While DevOps has come to the mainframe, automated testing is still lagging. Application teams have shiny new DevOps pipelines and automation, are using tools like Git to super charge their development but are still using manual testing procedures, bad test data, and antiquated testing processes. To get to that next level of DevOps maturity, teams need to embrace automated testing and modern methodologies for testing on the mainframe. With this session, we will introduce teams to the 10 steps for effective mainframe testing. Step by step we will walk attendees through the things you need to set up, the ways to change your culture around testing, the technologies you need to embrace to facilitate this change, and how to approach your testing. We have already transformed the developer environment on the mainframe, now let's take the next step and embrace testing to take our DevOps to the next level.