Testing mainframe applications, such as CICS screens, for usability is significantly different than testing a web or windows application. CICS applications excel in data entry environments in which a mouse is seldom used, such as use within a call center, and testing should keep this benefit and intended application in mind.
 
One list of test cases for CICS, posted on techtarget, focuses on a few key categories of errors:
 
1) Text, text-placement, and omission errors. This includes labels that do not appear, labels that appear in the wrong place, and labels th

Batch automation is frequently included by both database and operating system vendors; and typically, these two software categories approach the problem differently. Databases on the windows platform, for example, typically offer much greater scripting and control flow than the native Windows task scheduler. Similarly, Unix-based database vendors offer batch automation and job scheduling beyond the simple utilities, like cron, that are bundled with the OS.

One of the companies I work for has millions of employees in total, and keeps records on them in sev...

Fully 75% of respondents reported significant problems as a result of defective data. ... Little over 40% of them were 'very confident' in their own data quality.

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Most large organizations already follow a corporate backup p...

One of the major problems in any organization is the oldest code hasn’t been tested against more newly discovered bugs. VB6, classic ASP, and even COBOL can be vulnerable to more modern flaws like SQL injection. As "Charles" writes on stack overflow,
 
“Non-parameterized dynamic statements are what you need to worry about…for example...