Tool Migration & Modernisation

The problem

Your test estate outlived its tool.

A migration is rarely triggered by the tool alone. Licences are up for renewal, the vendor has changed the product direction, or the suite has grown to a point where nobody can say what it still covers. In parallel, the release train keeps running — so the migration has to happen without a gap in regression coverage.

The risk is not the export. It is discovering, months in, that a third of the migrated test cases were duplicates, that nobody knows the expected results, or that the new tool is being used exactly like the old one.

The business outcome

Same coverage, lower maintenance, a suite your team can still read in two years.

• Regression coverage preserved through the switch, with a documented mapping from old to new
• A smaller, deduplicated test base instead of a one-to-one copy of historic debt
• Module and test data conventions that make the new suite maintainable
• Licence and platform costs that reflect what you actually use
• A team that can extend the suite without external help

What we take responsibility for

Inventory, decision, migration, handover.

• Inventory and analysis of the existing estate: test cases, modules, test data, integrations, custom code
• A carry-over decision per asset — migrate, rebuild, consolidate or retire — agreed with your test managers
• Target architecture in the new tool: module structure, reusable components, test data approach, naming conventions
• Migration execution, including automated conversion where it is safe and manual rebuild where it is not
• Pipeline and test management integration, traceability back to requirements
• Enablement of your team and a defined handover, or continued operation as a managed testing team

Typical deliverables

What lands on your desk.

• Estate inventory with coverage and duplication analysis
• Migration design and carry-over decision log
• Effort and risk estimate per migration wave
• Target module architecture and test data concept
• Migrated and executable test suite in the new tool
• Traceability mapping from legacy assets to migrated assets
• Enablement sessions and documentation for your team

Supported platforms

From UFT, Worksoft, Selenium and ALM to Tosca and qTest.

How we work

Five phases, each with a defined result.

1. 01

   Assessment

   Inventory of the estate, coverage and duplication analysis, first effort range.

2. 02

   Migration design

   Target architecture, carry-over decisions, wave planning and risk register.

3. 03

   Pilot wave

   One business-critical process end to end in the new tool, to validate the design before scale.

4. 04

   Migration waves

   Execution in agreed waves, with regression coverage maintained throughout.

5. 05

   Handover or run

   Enablement and documentation — or continued operation by our managed testing team.

Project experience

Two recent migrations.

• Insurance · Switzerland — migration of the UFT regression base and its variants to Tosca Cloud. The regression suite runs in Tosca Cloud.
• Healthcare · Switzerland — QMetry to Tricentis qTest in a single night: 5,047 test cases and 11,508 executions, every object reconciled.
• Defence & industry · Germany — conversion of a manual SAP test catalogue into automated Tosca tests on-premise, with performance and load tests built on the same processes. Ongoing.

Questions we get asked

Before the contract, not after.