QAT Wizard
Application Development Acceleration for CA Gen
QAT Global doesn’t do any development projects in Gen without using patterns and QAT Wizard. You will see productivity increase 8-15+ times* where patterns are used in your development activities using QAT Wizard. Imagine the cost savings and benefits you could gain by reducing your new development time from 2 weeks to 20 minutes. Sound too good to be true? It’s not. QAT Wizard will drastically reduce your development time and produce code that precisely meets your coding and view standards.
QAT Wizard is a plug-in for CA Gen that dramatically accelerates the application development process. First, the Wizard plug-in itself is a sophisticated plug-in for CA Gen that expertly copies and customizes Gen code according to a custom interview. The second part is the actual pattern model that gets copied and customized by the Wizard. The newest releases focus on the automation, tools and documentation required for customers to author their own standard patterns and corresponding Wizard Interviews.
The pattern model provided by QAT Global is still definitely the best starting point, but the customer is now able to create entirely new patterns and associated interviews for the Wizard. All code and view standards can be applied to the Pattern model and interviews can be created for existing models with any code and view standard.
Other QAT Wizard Components:
In order to automate the logic to enable the patterns to retrieve these current settings (i.e. Enabled Wizard Features) so the test can execute as if those features were selected during the Wizard, we created a plug-in that generates this specialized Wizard Feature action diagram logic into the pattern procedures and action blocks automatically.
Between the new automated test menu and the new plug-in to generate the Wizard Feature logic, we’ve greatly simplified the task of developing and testing patterns for QAT Wizard. The new pattern test menu and code generator can now be launched directly from the QAT Wizard control panel.
Full Client Control — That’s the new theme for QAT Wizard
What’s New
The newest release of the Wizards, adds valuable new features to provide Full Client Control. While past releases focused on the features and options within the QAT pattern model, the release focuses on allowing the client to take full control over the pattern model and the associated Wizard Interviews that control the Wizard. The pattern model provided by QAT Global will still be a good starting point, but the client will now be able to create entirely new patterns and associated interviews for the Wizard. All code and view standards can be applied to the QAT Pattern model or interviews can be created for existing models with any code and view standard.
Highlights
- Reduce development time by at least 50% using this advanced automation tool.
- Use your own patterns to apply the code and view standards for your shop or customize the QAT Patterns to use your standard views and coding practices.
- Develop your own interviews that copy and customize any pattern model.
- Develop custom help for every option in your interviews using Word or PDF so the developer has context sensitive help during the interview.
- Whether planning a major enhancement to a new development, your projects will quickly realize significant development time and cost savings as well as quality improvements by automating your development process with QAT Wizard.
- With QAT Wizard Pattern Training, you will learn to create your first custom pattern model that you own when it’s done. You can use this experience and model to create additional new pattern models.
The Quintessential Tool for the Gen Developer
Benefits
- Reduce CA Gen development time by at least 50% using this advanced automation tool.
- The most powerful application wizard on the market.
- Interview-style wizard custom builds applications using your shop standards.
- Use your own patterns to apply the code and view standards for your shop or customize the QAT Patterns to use your standard views and coding practices. The starter QAT Pattern model offers six robust patterns and multiple customization options.
- Develop your own interviews that copy and customize any pattern model.
- Develop Custom help for each option in your interviews using Word or PDF so the developer. has context sensitive help during the interview.
- Support for all major architectures provided by CA Gen today, including CBD.
- CBD – 100% generation of mapper action blocks, including SET statements and support for both Component and Application Models.
- Produce production ready applications within minutes.
- Reduced training costs …developers learn by example. With QAT Wizard Pattern Training, you will learn to create your first custom pattern model that you own when it’s done. You can use this experience and model to create additional new pattern models.
- Reduced maintenance costs …standardized quality code facilitates more productive maintenance cycles.
- Improved performance….QAT’s Wizards are designed around the latest best practices and with attention to network traffic issues.
- Faster end-user acceptance because of the robust UI features, stability, and overall quality.
- Satisfied developers enjoy using QAT Wizard because the resultant code is clean and the documentation is effective.
- Easy to use for business analysts and developers alike.
- Dynamic help and pattern reference will guide you through the process.
- Dynamic customization and expert help will have your team building high-quality applications extremely fast… CA Gen fast.
- A comprehensive and proven coding standard for CA Gen without the standards manual.
- Achieve immediate results and measurable return on investment. Whether planning a major enhancement to a new development, your projects will quickly realize significant development time and cost savings as well as quality improvements by automating your development process with QAT Wizard.
Details
First, the Wizard plug-in itself is a sophisticated plug-in for CA Gen that expertly copies and customizes Gen code according to a custom interview. The second part is the actual pattern model that gets copied and customized by the Wizard. The newest releases focus on the automation, tools and documentation required for customers to author their own standard patterns and corresponding Wizard Interviews. The pattern model provided by QAT Global is still definitely the best starting point, but the customer is now able to create entirely new patterns and associated interviews for the Wizard. All code and view standards can be applied to the Pattern model and interviews can be created for existing models with any code and view standard.
Pattern Test Harness
A new automated Pattern Test Harness was developed into the starter pattern model. This test harness integrates directly to the Wizard Interview in a special mode that allows the tester to make the same choices they will be presented with during the Wizard Interview. This allows for each pattern to be tested with any combination of features defined.
Notes Manager Plug-in
The Notes Manager is a plug-in for CA Gen that allows for common notes to be easily managed across an entire model. It is important to maintain consistent notes within a pattern model so developers have the proper standards documentation to understand and complete the applications after they are created by QAT Wizard. This tool requires that any common notes be tagged using an XML style tag within the note to identify them as “Managed Notes”. This plug-in then allows for the text within these managed notes to be modified across the model. Entirely new Managed Notes can also be created. These changes can be filtered by Clients, Servers and Action Blocks.
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FAQ
QAT ReFactor is a plug-in for CA Gen that provides sophisticated Action Diagram view substitution between unlike Entities, Work Sets and their Attributes. Individual action diagrams, complete call chains or the entire model can be targeted for the ReFactor operation. The ReFactor operations even allow attributes with unlike domains to be matched and substituted in the Action Diagrams.
Here are some of the ReFactor operations provided. All of these ReFactor operations can target a single action block, an entire call chain or the entire model.
You can ReFactor your Action Diagram(s) to:
- Substitute an Entity View for a Work Set View with all attributes mapped according to a designed match.
- Substitute an Entity/Work Set View for a different Entity/Work Set View with all attributes mapped according to a designed match.
- Substitute selected Attributes from an Entity/Work Set View with Attributes from a different Entity/WorkSet View.
- Enforce Standards
- Rapid Application Development
- Improve Quality and reduce testing time
- Do the hard and mundane stuff
- Prototype tool
- End user involvement early
- Build robust Clients and Servers
- Automatically builds customized GUI and Web applications.
- Many custom options exist for each pattern.
- The wizard prompts for each option.
- Builds fully customized applications according to the selected options.
- Builds the Web or GUI client along with all corresponding servers and action blocks in a single interview.
- User Interface: Windows (GUI) — Web (WCE)
- Server Architecture: Client/Server — CBD (Component and Application Model Support)
- Pattern: List— Multiple List— Detail — Associative — Tree (Active X) — Grid (Active X)
- Server Style: Operation or Hub
- Customization Options: Join Entity Types — Dropdowns — Related/Unrelated Entities