In this interview with Vance McCarthy at Integration Developer News, Bonitasoft CEO and co-founder Miguel Valdes Faura explains that when Bonitasoft released the version 2021.2 update to its digital process automation platform, it was aimed at bringing process app developers new tools and capabilities for testing, QA, deployment and lifecycle management.
More tools to accelerate critical business process application development
The Bonita platform provides a unified process app platform where users can design their app, conduct quality assurance testing and deploy -- all in the same environment, Faura told IDN.
“Development teams will now have all the technologies needed to test, deploy and continuously deliver business process automation projects more easily.”
In the big picture, Bonitasoft aims to enable more seamless support for more frequent process improvements, he added.
"We are bringing automation to make testing easier and more visible. All this is part of our continuous improvement story. More and better process app testing supports sustainable automation and allows development teams to have more confidence in changes," Faura said.
Among Bonita's notable features are:
- The Bonita Test Toolkit, which accelerates testing and deployment of complex, core, and critical automation projects.
- A tool for deep visibility and process monitoring, which lets developers and IT make sure a process task succeeded or failed, such as a customer onboarding request.
- An updated Docker image, with its own LDAP synchronizer, lets users take either the Bonita Docker image with its database schema or use their specific database configured for Bonita.
- Capabilities to help cloud developers more easily deploy Bonita process apps to the cloud.
- Continuous Integration to allow for rapid iterations between development and QA.
- Boosted performance and robust security vulnerabilities handling.
- Updates to the runtime engine include dynamic permission authorizations activated by default.
- Flexible connectivity via generic extensions and connectors based on standard APIs.
Bonitasoft’s Focus on Process App Developer Needs
"This update is focused on developers and how we can improve testing capabilities and help ensure people using cloud technologies like Docker can easily deploy their process apps to the cloud. With Bonita 2022.1, we provide the tools we promised to developers to ease testing and deployment for enterprise-critical applications."
As for productivity results, Faura said, "With Bonita 2022.1, to go from a prototype to launch can honestly take from days to weeks, depending on the complexity of your application. With our methodology, we usually try to work in days rather than weeks because we prefer to reduce the complexity so you can see results faster."
Faura also shared how Bonitasoft's decision to drill down into highly technical developer needs is helping the company solve two major customers' "main pains" when it comes to process app deployments.
