A Problem Analysis at Tieto Leading to the Development of a Test-Data-Handler Application

Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to provide the Maftaki team at Tieto a proposal of a tool or improve one of the current tools that will support their processes. In order to find a suitable tool a problem analysis model, as described by Goldkuhl and Rostlinger (1988), was used. To find out what kind of problem existed, members from the Maftaki team were interviewed. Out of the problems that were brought up during the interviews, difficulties with finding telephone numbers that can be used in the testing environment at testing was chosen. In order to solve the problem, a tool that handles test data was to be developed. Firstly, a requirement elicitation was performed by interviewing potential users of the system. In this way, use cases and functional requirements were elicited. A framework called Struts2, an Object-relational Mapping framework, Hibernate and an Inversion of Control container, Spring was used during the development. Maven was used for building the application. During the development demos were performed in order to elicit more requirements from the users and to clarify some requirements. Also refactoring was done continuously during the development. When the development of the application was done a couple of test cases were written and some basic testing of the application were performed .