Recently, the "2023 Financial Industry Software Testing Results Exchange Conference" (hereinafter referred to as the Financial Testing Meeting) was successfully held in Beijing, jointly sponsored by China Financial Magazine and China CITIC Bank, and supported by China Information Technology and other units. Jiang Wanjin, Chairman of China Financial Publishing House, Lu Tiangui, Vice President of China CITIC Bank, Li Wei, Director of Science and Technology Department of People's Bank of China, Yang Hong, Secretary-General of Financial Technology Committee of China Society for Finance and Banking, and other leading guests attended the meeting, and Han Qiuquan, chief financial quality measurement expert of China Information Technology, was invited to attend the meeting.
In the dialogue session of "Frontier Exploration in the Field of Automated Testing of Software in the Financial Industry", Han Qiuquan pointed out that financial quality testing does not need to be "one of the two", and the "manual integration" mode can be realized through the automation model, which not only takes into account the cost problem, but also improves efficiency.
Han Qiuquan, chief financial quality measurement expert of China Information Technology
Han Qiuquan said that in order to promote the quality measurement mode of "hand-auto-integration", DCIT has developed a modeling platform based on the MBT model. The platform includes: business modeling, test modeling and other modules, which can automatically generate standardized test cases. These use cases can be executed both manually and automatically.
Functional testers or business personnel can directly make business process diagrams on the platform through simple "drag-and-drop". Based on the business process and the business rules contained in it, the platform will automatically generate "manual integration" test cases. Break the boundary between manual testing and automated testing, and avoid the embarrassing situation of "choosing one or the other".
Han Qiuquan pointed out that in the specific implementation and promotion, DCIT has also developed a reverse engineering tool to help functional testers reverse convert the functional test cases that were manually tested in the past into flow charts, quickly adjust and generate new automated test cases, help functional testers shorten the switching cost between the two, and solve the problem of duplicate work.
Han Qiuquan pointed out that in the process of promoting the implementation of the new model of financial software quality testing, technological breakthroughs are necessary, but not sufficient. With the joint support of many parties, the boundary between manual testing and automated testing will gradually be broken, and with the close integration of the two, the related work will enter a new stage. In the future, the new functional testing mode of manual automation will gradually enter a new stage of automation, intelligence and expertization, and technical experts can focus more on exploratory testing, and ordinary manual testing will be phased out.
Han Qiuquan said that in the field of banking and financial quality testing, DCIT has formed a complete financial quality testing capability, providing various types of commercial banks such as state-owned banks, joint-stock systems, urban businesses, and rural credit banks, including core systems, credit systems, and data systems. At the same time, with the development of AI large model technology, DCIT is exploring the generation of test cases through large model technology, and handing over reasoning and path analysis to business models to complete, in this regard, a certain amount of practical experience has been formed.