Barclays presentation at ATMIA 2009: How to reinvent your ATM lifecycle and save £millions

James Tomaney at Barclays talks about the bank’s roll out of automated testing to reduce ATM downtime:

The key points of the talk include:
• Automated testing gives Barclays 500% of the coverage they used to have
• The tests required to provide this take 48 hours compared to the three months under the previous system
- Barclays now conduct 1,500 test daily on each virtual ATM
- Barclays can conduct 4,500 tests conducted in 12 hours
• The project took 5 months to implement
• RESULT: 2% improvement in availability – which will take Barclays to the top end of availability in the UK.