Homegrown, modernized legacy and software as a service applications all benefit from continuous testing for performance and functionality.
Paul Reichlin, director of digital platforms at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, sees automated software testing as a foundational role.
“We have approximately 600 applications in the VA and each product line uses their own different automated tools that suits their needs,” Coppinger said.
Some parts of the system are more difficult to automate, including operations like biometric fingerprinting.