How Exactly Does Time Shift Testing Work?

Business rely on applications and software more than ever today. With so many effective, efficient cloud-based platforms allowing companies to perform a huge range of processes online, having as much control over applications’ functions is vital. Technical complications and errors can lead to huge issues, delaying work and setting schedules back, possibly even causing financial problems.

Using time shift testing and virtual clock software are just one way to identify potential flaws in various applications. Solution-Soft’s Time Machine software empowers businesses with the freedom to time travel their applications forward or backward, performing numerous critical tests. 

The Freedom of Time Travel

The software testing tool’s virtual clock software enables testing on application logic which is time and date sensitive. Such tasks as year-end financial processing, policy life-cycles, and more can all be assessed to ensure proper performance. With that in mind, how does time shift testing and virtual clock software work?

They intercept date and time calls from an application, and provide a specific time and date from the virtual clock in return, allowing the app to perform as it actually would at the set point. The clock’s speed can also be adjusted, set at normal, frozen, or accelerated / decelerated rates. Time may be set to run at as much as 1000 times quicker or slower than real time, to suit your exact needs.

Once Time Machine is installed and set-up, applications can be time-traveled within a matter of seconds. Companies can use virtual clocks to run testing across numerous different applications, with as many as 20,000 programmable clocks available. 

To make sure your standard system operations continue unaffected, exclusion lists give businesses the freedom to specifiy which programs should remain untouched. 

A Simple Cost Effective Solution

You can use Time Machine’s time shift testing to make sure projects are actually finished on-time and to standard. This is a critical aspect of running a successful business: too many delays caused by even minor technical errors can prove costly. 

Rather than having to wait days or weeks to reach a certain point to make sure an application works as it should, you can simply wind time on to check its performance.

This application testing software has no effect on your main system clock either, so there is no need to worry about causing irreparable damage to your operations. Various testers from across your team can also conduct research on numerous different areas using multiple virtual clocks, maximizing the efficiency of their work. 

Time Machine is used by thousands of clients across the globe, proving essential to almost half of the Fortune 100 businesses, and our partners include such household names as Microsoft and IBM. 

We understand application testing software is a complex area, so if you want to know more, feel free to get in touch with our expert team. You also take advantage of a free Time Machine proof-of-concept, to explore the advantages it offers your company.

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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