Aras partner since 2010 · OEM, VAR, SI
Aras Innovator
We test against
- Configured data models
- Workflows and lifecycle rules
- Custom methods and business logic
- Integrations and external systems
- Upgrades and regression impact
PLM Quality Assurance & Validation
Validate PLM Changes Before They Reach the Business
A PLM release can change product structures, workflows, integrations, permissions and the way people work. We validate those changes against your real business processes before they reach production — not screen by screen.
- Functional & Regression Testing
- Upgrade & Release Validation
- Integration & Workflow Testing
- Test Automation & Performance
The QA Challenge
A Passing Screen Is Not a Passing Process
A PLM change can work on its own and still break the process around it. A workflow change can affect approvals. A data change can affect a BOM. An upgrade can expose issues in integrations, permissions or existing configuration.
The real test is whether the business process still works.
- BOMStructure resolves wrong
- WorkflowAn approval is skipped
- DataAttributes drift
- IntegrationERP receives the wrong release
- SecurityA role sees too much
- User ExperienceThe daily task gets harder
PLM ChangeOne change, six places it lands
Validation Coverage
Validate the PLM, Not Just the Feature
Our QA covers the areas most likely to affect a PLM release — from core functionality and product data to workflows, integrations and performance.
PLM ReleaseValidated across six dimensions
Functional Validation
- Items
- BOMs
- Forms
- Workflows
- Business Rules
Regression Testing
- Existing Processes
- Configurations
- Customisations
Data & BOM Validation
- Product Structures
- Relationships
- Attributes
- Data Integrity
Integration Testing
- PLM ↔ ERP
- MES
- CAD
- ALM
- Enterprise Systems
Security & Access
- Roles
- Permissions
- Identity
- User Access
Performance Validation
- Response Time
- Server Events
- Load
- Transactions
Our QA Approach
From Change to Release, With Validation Built In
We structure QA around the change being introduced and the business processes it can affect — so testing validates the release as it will actually be used, not requirement by requirement.
Change
Map the process
Trace the business flow the change touches.
Define the test scope
Decide what must be proven, and where.
Test
Record the baseline
Capture how the system behaves today.
Build the test cases
Turn requirements and process risks into executable tests.
Validate
Execute the tests
Functional, regression and integration runs.
Confirm the risk areas
Test deeper where the change impact is highest.
Release
Validate the release
The system and the business process, working as expected.
Hand over & keep running
Results documented; validation that repeats on every release.
PLM Delivery Experience
Tested by the Team That Understands the PLM Behind It
We implement and configure PLM environments ourselves. So our QA teams know the data models, workflows, customisations and integrations they are testing — not just the expected screen behaviour.
Dassault Systèmes C&SI partner
3DEXPERIENCE
We test against
- Configured processes
- PLM data and relationships
- Roles and access
- Integrations
- Release and upgrade impact
Track Record
Proven Across Real PLM Releases
Releases, upgrades and configured environments where testing had to reflect the customer’s actual processes — not a generic product configuration.
Ericsson
- Challenge
- A 3DEXPERIENCE estate in constant change, with the same business processes re-tested by hand after every release.
- Validation
- Reusable test cases in the Test Automation Suite, written in PLM terms and re-run as the regression pass on every release and upgrade.
- Result
- Around 2,500 use cases in continuous automated use for more than five years, and a manual regression pass that is no longer run by hand.
Multi-Site Enterprise · Release Assurance on a High-Risk Change
- Challenge
- A high-risk platform change touching approvals and effectivity, where a regression could quietly corrupt downstream manufacturing data.
- Validation
- Reusable regression automation re-proved existing behaviour on every increment, with release validation as a whole-process check before cutover.
- Result
- The change shipped with confidence — regression coverage held, and no business-process defect escaped to production.
Discrete Manufacturer · Wrong-BOM Defect Caught Pre-Release
- Challenge
- A release passed every screen check, yet a configuration change resolved the BOM wrong — the kind of defect that ships bad product data, not an error.
- Validation
- Business-process test coverage on the Test Automation Suite, with shift-left gates validating change → BOM → manufacturing end to end.
- Result
- The wrong-BOM defect was caught in build, before it reached production — a bad business outcome prevented, not just a bug logged.
- Change
- Validate
- Release
Plan Your Next Release
Know What Your Next PLM Release Could Break Before It Does
Upgrading, changing a workflow, adding an integration or preparing a major release — we can help define the right validation scope and approach.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Upgrades, new releases, configuration and workflow changes, customisations, new or changed integrations, and data migrations. Anything that can change how a product structure, a workflow or a permission behaves.
Yes. We record how the system behaves before the upgrade, then run regression against that baseline afterwards, so any change in behaviour is found in testing rather than in production.
Yes — that is the point of the service. We implement and configure these platforms ourselves, so we test against your data model, custom methods, workflows and lifecycle rules, not a vanilla configuration.
Aras Innovator and 3DEXPERIENCE. Connected systems such as ERP and MES are tested as part of the PLM processes that reach into them.
Yes. Integrations with ERP, MES, CAD and ALM are tested inside the business process they serve — checking that the right data reaches the other system at the right point, not just that the interface responds.
Yes, with our Test Automation Suite. Test cases are built once and rerun on every release and upgrade, from Jenkins, Azure DevOps or GitLab CI or on a schedule, with failures raised in Jira.
Yes. QA can run inside an implementation or support engagement, or on its own for a single release. At the end we hand the validation over to your team, or keep running it on every release.