Smarter Testing for PTC Windchill and Creo with Keysight Eggplant
PTC Windchill and Creo sit at the heart of modern product development, connecting CAD, PLM, and downstream enterprise systems. As these environments grow more complex and customized, validating end-to-end workflows across engineering and manufacturing becomes increasingly difficult.
Keysight Eggplant is now a member of PTC’s Technology Engagement Program, enabling organizations to modernize how they test and validate Windchill environments using AI-driven automation.
Why PLM Testing Is Challenging
Windchill and Creo operate as part of a tightly connected digital thread that spans CAD data, product structures, workflows, access controls, and enterprise integrations. Even minor changes, such as a workflow update, configuration change, or upgrade, can introduce unintended impacts across the system.
Testing is further complicated by:
- Mixed user interfaces (desktop CAD in Creo and web-based workflows in Windchill)
- Complex data relationships across parts, documents, BOMs, and revisions
- Frequent upgrades and customizations that require reliable regression testing
- End-to-end dependencies between CAD, PLM, ERP, and manufacturing systems
Manual testing struggles to keep pace with this complexity and scale.
How Keysight Eggplant Supports Windchill and Creo Testing
As part of the PTC Technology Engagement Program, Keysight Eggplant provides intelligent automation designed to validate real user workflows and system behavior across Windchill and Creo.
UI-First Automation with Computer Vision
Eggplant interacts with Windchill and Creo visually, just like a user. This makes automation resilient across UI changes and ideal for validating workflows such as part creation, CAD check-in/check-out, lifecycle promotions, and approvals.
End-to-End Workflow Validation
Automate complete scenarios—from creating or modifying CAD models in Creo to validating synchronization, metadata, BOMs, and lifecycle states in Windchill.
Data and API Validation
Eggplant verifies backend PLM data through APIs, ensuring revisions, attributes, relationships, and BOM structures remain accurate after UI-driven actions.
Model-Based and Exploratory Testing
AI-driven test generation helps uncover edge cases, role-based behaviors, and unexpected workflow paths that are common in heavily customized Windchill environments.
Regression and Upgrade Readiness
Automated regression suites enable teams to confidently validate Windchill and Creo upgrades, patches, and configurations before deployment—reducing risk and downtime.
Benefits for You
With Keysight Eggplant, teams working with Windchill and Creo can:
- Reduce manual testing effort and testing cycles
- Achieve reliable, repeatable validation of critical PLM workflows
- Improve quality and stability across upgrades and customizations
- Detect defects earlier and lower operational risk
- Accelerate engineering and PLM transformation initiatives
Bottom Line
As part of PTC’s Technology Engagement Program, Keysight Eggplant brings AI-driven, UI-centric automation that enables true end-to-end validation across CAD and PLM workflows.
For organizations managing complex product lifecycles, this approach delivers higher quality, faster releases, and greater confidence in their Windchill and Creo environments.