Automated testing with Selenium
From PC Quest
For any software development project, testing is an integral and important process. To assure that all components of an application are working as per plan and producing desired results, comprehensive testing is done for an application. To aid these efforts, there are tools available that help in automating the process of testing and eliminating repetitive work for a tester. Selenium is a portable software testing framework specifically designed for web applications. For software testers who need to record and play their tests, Selenium provides the facility to record a web activity process of the application and then generate a test case based on that. He can then run those test cases continuously without having to manually conduct the constituent steps again and again thereby eliminating repetitive work. Even for software developers, Selenium API is available which helps them to author test cases in Java, Ruby, Python, PHP and other languages.
Borland adapt Silk for agile development
From Information Week
Borland has adapted its Silk line of software testing tools to better accommodate modern development methods, particularly Agile-style development.
Agile is a widely adopted programming method with varied approaches, but in general, it relies on small teams, concentrated development efforts called sprints, frequent user feedback, and frequent testing — by the developers, long before a separate quality assurance team gets its hands on the code.
In its own experience implementing Agile methods, Borland found “Agile developers are being asked to go beyond unit and function tests, but they don’t own all the paths to the application,” Wilby said. In complex Web and enterprise infrastructures, applications may encounter conditions that the Agile developers did not anticipate or test for.
Automated functional test tool
From PR Web
Telesis LLC, a leading provider of solutions that accelerate and mature functional software testing processes, today announced the release of its Business Testing Triage Tool, BT3 Version 2.4. BT3 V2.4 integrates Telesis’ patented Business Priority Process TM with existing automated functional testing frameworks, thereby accelerating testing cycles and optimizing resources.
“Given the economic climate today, companies absolutely must improve the way they test software,” said Patty Sue Williams, President of Telesis. “It is no longer acceptable to deliver software that doesn’t satisfy end-users or doesn’t work, much less doing so over budget and late.”
Selection Strategy for Web Testing Tools
From Software Development Magazine
What have our test tools done for our web application development? Just a few months after adopting JUnit, Canoo WebTest and FitNesse, we had a suite of regression tests that gave us a useful safety net, and our defect rate was going down dramatically. Today, three years later, we have increased our test numbers by a factor of ten or more. Our regression suites, running many times per day in two continuous builds, catch bugs at least a few times a week. Our rate of defects introduced during development is down by half. We have time and tools to do robust exploratory testing and load testing. Most importantly, but harder to measure, using our tests to drive development has resulted in features that delighted our customers.
Test automation is a big investment, but carefully done, it returns many times what you put into it. You need enough resources to first define what you need, then investigate your options, then to try out tools.
Automated UAT
From IBS Publishing
Schroders underwent three months of automated testing before it brought in end-users to check if the tool had identified the majority of issues. It ran a two day UAT testing session with a number of users to gauge their reaction to the system and identify any further fixes required. ‘They came back with very few issues, much less than in other releases and that was the first test they were involved in,’ says Fischer. ‘They were not able to identify more than a dozen issues.’
This is not to say that an automated tool can completely replace the UAT process. As stated above, the manual testing still identified problems with the upgraded system that needed fixing despite three months of automated checking. There are certainly limitations to what the system is able to look for. One example from the bank is that ‘you cannot test the reaction of the system in case of a wrong input, because it will only capture successful transactions’.
Empirix testing tool
As TMCnet recently reported, Empirix has been snapping up awards in recent years for its VoIP Testing and Monitoring solutions and last month were again honored when Frost & Sullivan awarded the company with its 2009 Global VoIP Test & Monitoring Equipment Market Leadership of the Year Award.
Hammer Edge emulates the realistic behaviour of users and devices required to test elements at the network edge, including border controllers, firewalls and deep packet inspection devices, as well as security and application level gateways––in both secure and unsecured network topologies.
Hammer Edge emulates millions of users on a single chassis with high performance and realistic testing of multiservice scenarios. The system can be easily incorporated into existing test plans and automation environments.
Automated test tool upgrade
From PR USA
AutomatedQA today introduced TestComplete™ 7 featuring script-free automated test creation and major upgrades to increase usability. TestComplete is a comprehensive automated software testing tool used by companies around the world to increase software quality and reduce the cost of QA and software testing. TestComplete 7 is perfect for software development teams new to automated software testing.
TestComplete 7’s enhancements improve ease-of-use for entry-level testers and expand on its versatile capabilities enjoyed by experienced users. It includes keyword testing, for powerful script-free test creation, and uses automatic name mapping to easily keep up with software development changes. The new edition shortens the learning curve for new users and provides more power and control over the automated testing process.
Test Automation partnership
From PR.com
Austin-based SmarteSoft Inc., the industry leader in easy to use software test automation products and services, is pleased to announce that it has partnered with UST Global, a leading provider of end-to-end IT services and solutions for Global 1000 companies. The agreement will offer UST customers access to SmarteSoft’s highly efficient, easy-to-use suite of test tools, including SmarteScript, its tool for creating and executing scripts for functional and regression testing. It also guarantees availability of UST consultants trained in the use of SmarteSoft products.
HP QTP and QC License Notice
FromTrading Markets
This is a sources sought notice and not a request for quotations. The purpose of this announcement is to determine if there are potential qualified Service Disabled Veteran Owned, HubZone, or other Small Businesses who can furnish and deliver the software listed below. The Bureau of the Public Debt’s (BPD) Business Technology Division (BTD) has a need to purchase HP’s QTP and QC Software Licenses and Maintenance for the purpose of performing functional testing on multiple instances of their Administrative Resource Center ’s (ARC) applications.
QTP is currently a bureau Defacto Standard software used specifically for functional testing at BPD which has already been base tested and is determined to be compatible with BPD systems and meets the approval of BPD.
QC is a module that works in conjunction with QTP.
Load and stress test tool
From PRnewswire
Ingenieurbuero David Fischer GmbH has released a new version of its web load and stress testing tool “Proxy Sniffer”.
In addition to Windows and other Unix-like operating systems the web stress test tool now also supports Mac OS X with its own installation kit.
Furthermore, the 4.2 version comes with an improved presentation of measurement data, allowing a considerably more efficient analysis of the performance of web applications.
Proxy Sniffer is mainly used for testing the stability and response-time behaviour of web shops, web portals and on-line banking applications. By simulating hundreds or even thousands of web users Proxy Sniffer enables you to anticipate the performance under actual operating conditions of the tested web application.
