Case Study: McKesson achieves faster, cost-effective test automation with Prolifics

McKesson Transforms Business with Script-less Test Automation

McKesson, the leading pharmaceutical distributor in North America, needed a better way to test frequent changes across its complex SAP and middleware environment. With roughly 40 service-objective changes released every quarter, the company faced heavy regression testing demands, data validation complexity, and the need to keep critical business processes reliable. Prolifics helped McKesson address this challenge with its testing division and the Effecta test automation framework.

Prolifics implemented a flexible onshore/offshore QA model, built a regression library of more than 1,700 test cases, and automated close to 40 business processes using HP Quality Center, HP QuickTest Professional, and Effecta. The solution improved data validation, script reusability, and test data management, enabling McKesson to test about 100,000 sales orders per day. The results included more than $800,000 in delivery savings, $2.2 million in overall test automation savings, about 30% lower total cost of ownership, and 97% defect removal efficiency.

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