Common Issues Time Shift Testing Can Help Uncover

We can all admit it – business is a time sensitive endeavor. Whether you are a business-to-consumer or a business-to-business enterprise, time of day, day of week, month of year and year of century can all make an impact on our business.

Whether you are producing quarterly reports, holding a sweepstakes, having a special sale that ends at a certain or day, or you have a deadline for people to pay their invoices – we all have some time sensitivity in our applications, software and other infrastructure. So it makes sense to conduct time shift testing on all of your software to make sure it works under varying circumstances.

It is important to test your software in these time sensitive environments to make sure it performs like it should no matter what time of day, week, month, quarter or year. There are three common issues that can be found when using time shift testing software such as a Time Machine from Solution-Soft:

Time changes. Whether it’s adjusting for Daylight Savings Time or working with Greenwich Mean Time or the International Date Line, it is important to understand how your software will work if it is used in varying locations around the country, continent or world.

Heavy/light load periods. While your office may be open and closed at certain times of day, your customers or vendors (or even the CEO!) may access your software at literally any time. Load testing can check this in a static situation, but what if you have heavy use for a sustained period, like several hours before a sale ends or before a sweepstakes closes? And what about middle of the night, when there may be customers in Asia accessing your software? Can the software work well for people in that region of the world?

Time stamping. In some verticals – such as healthcare and financial services – having an accurate timestamp for the end-user is vitally important for regulatory compliance issues. It is one thing to have the software work right at the right time; it is another to make sure the correct timestamp that is needed is posted.

To some extent, virtually every business software application has a level of time and date sensitivity to it. In that case, time shift testing is a must do for any software development or installation you may undergo. And Time Machine can help you conduct these tests quickly and easily in a very cost effective way so your business can provide excellent customer service all the time, and it will save money in testing and development – with savings passed on to the customers!

About Time Machine

Software Virtual Clocks for Time Travel Testing. Simulate past and future dates effortlessly with Time Machine®, enabling comprehensive testing of your date- and time-sensitive applications. Ideal for validating critical business processes like quarter-end and year-end processing, billing cycles, regulatory compliance (including Year 2038), and policy lifecycles during integration, upgrades, virtualization, cloud migration, and containerization. Eliminate the risks and downtime associated with system clock resets in complex environments like Active Directory and Kerberos.

About Solution-Soft

The Leader in Virtual Clock and Time Travel Testing Solutions

Since 1997, Solution-Soft has been at the forefront of virtual clock software and time travel testing solutions, empowering organizations in the ever-evolving digital world. Our flagship product, Time Machine, has revolutionized application testing, enabling thousands of companies, including 47 of the Fortune 100 US companies, to reduce costs and accelerate project delivery by an average of 3 – 10 times across traditional systems and containerized applications.

The Time Machine Product Suite extends these capabilities, optimizing cloud migration, test automation, Agile/DevOps, and containerization testing. Our latest innovation, Time Machine for Containers, supports standalone Docker containers and large-scale Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters (including a 16,000+ CPU core, 1,300+ namespace deployments).

Trusted by over 2,000 customers worldwide across diverse industries (including 3M, AMEX, BBC, Boeing, and more) and partnered with industry leaders like Accenture, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat, Solution-Soft, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, provides cutting-edge solutions for your time-sensitive testing needs. Learn more at www.solution-soft.com or call +1.408.346.1400.

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