Case Study: USDA achieves on-time delivery and cost savings with Solution-Soft's Time Machine

Time Machine® helps USDA's WIC Software Program Developer

USDA’s WIC program and its software developer and state participants faced major testing challenges for date-triggered events such as participation counting, certification periods, benefit issuance, report validation, and rebates. Windows Active Directory prevented changing system clocks, making multi-month and future-date testing impractical and creating backlogs and tight testing windows that risked missed deadlines. Solution-Soft’s Time Machine product was used to address these constraints.

Solution-Soft implemented Time Machine to set virtual dates while preserving the same configurations and databases used by participating states, allowing the developer to duplicate state issues, validate fixes, and run pre- and post-deployment tests without waiting for real calendar time. The approach eliminated testing bottlenecks, enabled verification of multi-month benefit scenarios, and helped the program achieve on-time delivery and cost savings for the major software deployment.

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