QA Console

The QA Console is an automated quality assurance tool for CA Gen allowing project administrators to enforce object and coding standards simply and effectively via automated reviews.
The emphasis of the QA Console is squarely on putting the user in control. It incorporates a mix of universally applicable internal checks with the ability to develop custom written checks, giving users the freedom to develop their own unique CA Gen compliance solution without reliance on third parties.

During its development, Response Systems canvassed a cross section of customers to see what sort of standards were enforced across the CA Gen world. They very quickly realised that there were some common themes but also, despite using the same core software, standards are very different from site to site and unique to each project. Giving each customer a complete bespoke solution was simply not possible - but of course that is what was being demanded.

They set about developing an architecture that could accommodate two types of checks operating side by side:

All of the necessary tools to develop, test and deploy Custom checks are supplied in a Software Development Kit that accompanies the QA Console. When checks are ready for release, they are registered as available in the same QA Configuration Utility as used with the Base checks and then a generated module containing the new checks is simply dropped into the core software server directory.
As an extension to Access Gen (Windows), it is available for both the Host and Client Server Encyclopedia and takes advantage of Access Gen's existing search and reporting framework to identify objects for review and then output the QA review outcomes in a report or tabular format.

  Access Gen from Response Systems has been certified ca smart™ for CA Gen.