ScalaCheck features automatic test case generation and minimization of failing test cases. ScalaCheck started out as a Scala port of the Haskell library QuickCheck, and has since evolved and been extended with features not found in Haskell QuickCheck.
Ivonna is an Asp.Net testing tool that allows writing unit tests for your Asp.Net applications. What makes it different is that Ivonna runs in the same process as the test runner.
Version 2.1 introduces support for basic AJAX scenarios: PageMethods, WebServices, and UpdatePanels, as well as project templates for VB.Net and C#, and considerable performance optimization. You can download it here.
Ivonna is being developed in partnership with TypeMock and runs on top of the TypeMock Isolator framework.
Gurock Software just announced version 3.3 of its popular logging tool SmartInspect. SmartInspect is a tool for .NET, Java and Delphi developers to debug and monitor software applications and to identify bugs and user-reported issues.
SmartInspect 3.3 introduces support for .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 and comes with various other improvements. New log methods allow developers to easily trace method execution with just one line of code. New enhancements made to SmartInspect’s log viewer help developers analyze log files and communicate with other team members.
Existing customers can download the updated version from Gurock’s customer portal. New SmartInspect licenses can be purchased online for $299 (US) per user or less. A free fully-functional trial of SmartInspect and an extensive product tour can be found on Gurock’s website.
About Gurock Software: Gurock Software is specialized in tools for software development teams and quality assurance departments. Gurock is known for its popular .NET, Delphi and Java logging tool SmartInspect and its new test case management solution TestRail.
Mountain View, CA and Hamburg, Germany, 29 March 2010. Today Viewtier Systems announced that it integrated Viewtier Parabuild with froglogic Squish, a popular tool for automated testing of user interfaces. The integration is available immediately.
"Test automation is an important practice that helps software teams develop better software faster", says Slava Imeshev, president and CTO of Viewtier Systems. "Parabuild promotes test automation testing by providing teams using froglogic Squish with an ability to run tests at every check in while monitoring test trends and statistics."
Parabuild parses XML logs generated by froglogic Squish, and creates statistics, telemetry and formatted reports for froglogic Squish. The logs are usually produced as a part of a Continuous Integration cycle or during a scheduled build.
"Squish is designed to not only provide the most reliable and robust functional GUI and regression testing framework, but also to be as easy as possible to integrate with third-party solutions, such as Viewtier Parabuild. We are excited to see Viewtier Systems providing a close integration between the two products to provide the users with a complete and strong solution for the software release process", said Reginald Stadlbauer, froglogic’s CEO.
About Parabuild
Parabuild, the Software Build and Release Management System, is a tool that builds, tests and manages software releases for enterprises large and small. Parabuild ensures uninterrupted release process by delivering practically unbreakable release builds, and provides Continuous Integration.
About Viewtier Systems
Founded in 2004, Viewtier Systems, Inc. develops, markets and supports Parabuild, the Software Build and Release Management System. Viewtier Systems is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and sells worldwide. Viewtier customers represent a broad range of industries including the game development, networking, electronics and financial services markets.
About Squish
Squish is a leading functional, cross-platform GUI and regression testing tool that can test applications based on a variety of GUI technologies, including Nokia’s Qt Software Frameworks, Java SWT/Eclipse RCP, Java AWT/Swing, Mac OS X Carbon/Cocoa, and Web/HTML/AJAX. Squish stands out from other GUI testing tools by giving test engineers the freedom to record and write tests using familiar scripting languages such as JavaScript, Perl, Python, and Tcl. Furthermore, Squish provides extremely tight integration with the specific GUI technologies it supports. This gives testers unprecedented access to the internals of the applications they are testing (to data items, controls, and widgets, etc.), and also leads to the production of very robust and stable GUI tests.
About froglogic
froglogic GmbH is a software company based in Hamburg, Germany . Their flagship product is Squish, the market-leading automated testing tool for GUI applications based on Qt, Java AWT/Swing and SWT/RCP, Mac OS X Carbon/Cocoa and for HTML/Ajax-based web applications running in different web browsers. froglogic also offers services in the areas QA/automated testing and C++/Qt programming and consulting. More about froglogic is at http://www.froglogic.com.
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Media Contacts
Slava Imeshev
+1- 650-223-3320
vimeshev@viewtier.com
www.viewtier.com
Reginald Stadlbauer
+49 40 78897137
contact@froglogic.com
www.froglogic.com
Gurock Software just released its new test management solution TestRail. TestRail is a web-based test case management software that helps software development teams and QA departments to efficiently manage, track and organize software testing efforts.After working on its new product for more than 18 months and running an extensive beta program, Gurock is proud to offer a modern and fresh approach to test management. With its extensive dashboards, progress charts and activity reports, TestRail helps testers, software developers and management to get real-time insights into their testing process.
TestRail is installed directly on your own server and can be ordered for an introductory price of $239 (US) per user, with additional discounts available for multi-user packs. A free fully-functional trial copy of TestRail and an extensive product tour can be found on Gurock’s website.
About Gurock Software: Gurock Software is specialized in tools for software development teams and quality assurance departments. Gurock is known for its popular Java tracing tool SmartInspect and its new test case management solution TestRail.
The free Community Edition of the Ajax-based web application Klaros-Testmanagement is now available in version 2.5.
The new release now provides integration with the popular open source project management and issue tracking system Redmine. A completly redesigned manual test client now allows to directly create issues in remote issue management systems and directly add attachments to the test result.
Other visible changes include:
- Test cases and test results may now contain binary attachements (e.g. screenshots).
- The revision history of a test case can now be displayed and edited.
About Klaros-Testmanagement
Klaros-Testmanagement is an Ajax-based web application for managing the quality assurance process in software development projects. Klaros-Testmanagement provides interfaces to issue tracking systems like Atlassian JIRA, Edgewall Trac and Redmine as well as an integration with the continuous integration server Hudson. Other key features are the automated logging of manual test execution, a configurable dashboard and interfaces for importing and exporting data.
For more information about Klaros-Testmanagement please visit www.klaros-testmanagement.com
About verit Informationssysteme GmbH
verit Informationssysteme GmbH is an independant software vendor located in Kaiserslautern/Germany. Since 1997 the company successfully collaborates with customers and partners in industry and research, focusing in the quality management process of software development projects. Customers include leading companies from the areas of financial services, telecommunication and automotive industries. With PETA Testplatform for automated testing and Klaros-Testmanagement the company offers two innovative and award-winning solutions for software test automation and software test management.
For more information about verit Informationssysteme GmbH please visit www.verit.de.
Original Software to host sessions on Agile Testing, Test Automation and Test Data Management
25 January 2010 – Original Software, the Application Quality Management (AQM) vendor, today announced its attendance at the 2010 Test Management Summit where George Wilson, the company’s Operations Director, will be hosting a workshop on Test Data Management as well as speaking in a session on the subject of Agile Testing. Peter Hopley, the company’s EMEA Sales Director, will also be presenting a summit session about Test Automation.
The annual summit, which takes place in London on Tuesday the 26th and Wednesday the 27th January, is the fourth of its kind. Run in conjunction with the Test Management Forum (TMF) – the forum for testing professionals in the UK, it is hosted and organised by Gerrard Consulting.
The summit is aimed at senior testing practitioners and managers, focussing on trends, futures and the big issues in test management. It aims to encourage networking and bring like minded test managers together to discuss techniques, approaches and tools, disseminating good ideas within the industry.
The Workshop day, takes place on Tuesday the 26th at the conference centre at Balls Brothers, Minster Pavement and the short, intensive sessions are aimed to give testers a head start in each topic, covering such things as exploratory and innovative testing, SCRUM, open source tools, and Agile test management. George Wilson will be hosting a workshop at 12.45pm, focussed on Test Data Management. Entitled ‘Taking Control of Your Test Data’, the workshop will explore strategies and techniques that can be used to support QA teams with the creation, management and verification of test data.
The Summit day takes place at the IoD building, Pall Mall, and the session topics, voted on by TMF members, include Agile testing, regression testing, measuring team performance, Test-Driven Development, requirements and performance testing. George Wilson will be leading a session at 10am, entitled ‘Agile Test Automation – Can it be Done?’ He will explore how to define a test process to ensure application quality within an Agile environment.
Peter Hopley’s session is at 3.45pm. Entitled ‘Maximising your Test Automation Success’, the session will investigate what determines the short and long term success of test automation, what to automate and what to test manually and how you can manage the jump to automation in a seamless and painless manner.
For more information on the sessions or to book at place at the Summit, visit http://www.uktmf.com/index.php?q=node/226
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About Original Software (www.origsoft.com)
With a world class record of innovation, Original Software offers a solution focused completely on the goal of effective quality management. By embracing the full spectrum of Application Quality Management across a wide range of applications and environments, the company partners with customers and helps make quality a business imperative. Solutions include a quality management platform, manual testing, full test automation and test data management, all delivered with the control of business risk, cost, time and resources in mind.
More than 400 organisations operating in over 30 countries use Original Software solutions. Current users range from major multi-nationals to small software development shops, encompassing a wide range of industries, sectors and sizes. We are proud of our partnerships with the likes of Coca-Cola, Cargill, HSBC, FedEx, Pfizer, DHL and many others.
Press contact
Kate Mackinder
Media Relations Officer
+44 1256 338 689
Kmackinder@origsoft.com
Nice, France and Hamburg, Germany—2009-12-08 XQual and froglogic GmbH today announced that XStudio 1.0, a free, cross-platform test management solution has been released, along with an integration for the popular automated GUI testing framework, Squish.
XQual Studio (XStudio) is a free GUI-based test management application that handles the complete life-cycle of QA/testing projects from end to end—users, requirements, specifications, development projects (scrum oriented), SUTs, tests, test plans, test reports, and test campaigns. XStudio uses a modular design to make it easy to extend with additional components.
Squish is the leading functional GUI and regression testing tool that enables the creation and execution of automated functional tests for GUI applications on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and on embedded platforms. Squish supports several GUI technologies including Nokia’s Qt, Java Swing/AWT/Eclipse RCP, Web/HTML/Ajax, and many more.
Squish offers a versatile testing framework for GUI applications with a choice of popular test scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, Perl, and Tcl), extended by Squish’s own library of testing-specific functionalities. Squish also provides open interfaces, several add-ons, integration with a variety of test management tools, a powerful IDE supporting the creation and debugging of tests, and a complete set of command line tools that can be used to create fully automated test runs.
With XStudio’s Squish integration it is possible to plan, schedule, execute, and analyze Squish GUI tests from within XStudio, as part of the complete automated test campaign managed by XStudio.
"XStudio proved itself to be one of the major actors in the Test Management world. XStudio handles not only the test plan, but also the requirements, specifications and defects associated to each test. This allows producing high quality reports and graphics. Thanks to its open-source SDK (LGPL), integrating with any kind of tests, including proprietary tests, is as simple as just writing a Java class. Mixing the strength of Squish and XStudio builds one of the most powerful integration ever!", —Eric Gavaldo, founder of XQual.
"Squish is designed to provide the most reliable and robust functional GUI and regression testing for test automation—and to be as easy as possible to integrate with third-party test management and ALM solutions. This means that our customers have the freedom to create their ideal testing environments using the tools they like best. We congratulate XQual on producing this first release of XStudio, a free test management solution that works well with Squish, and that is a very attractive tool in its own right, in particular thanks to its cross-platform support.", —Reginald Stadlbauer, froglogic’s CEO.
If you are interested in evaluating or purchasing Squish or any other Squish edition, please contact squish@froglogic.com or visit www.froglogic.com/squish.
For more information about XStudio, please visit www.xqual.com
About froglogic
froglogic GmbH is a software company based in Hamburg, Germany. Their flagship product is Squish, the market-leading automated testing tool for GUI applications based on Qt, Java AWT/Swing and SWT/RCP, Mac OS X Carbon/Cocoa and for HTML/Ajax-based web applications running in various web browsers. froglogic also offers services in the areas QA/automated testing and C++/Qt programming and consulting. More about froglogic at http://www.froglogic.com.
About XQual
XQual is based in Nice, France and has been founded to promote a free, efficient, and professional-quality test management solution. XQual also offers a variety of consulting services through "XQual Services". Read more about XQual at http://www.xqual.com.
A first beta version of Gurock Software’s upcoming web-based test management tool TestRail is now available. TestRail is intended to help software development teams and quality assurance departments manage test cases, track test results and organize software testing efforts. Its modern web interface was designed to make it as easy as possible to enter test cases, organize test suites, coordinate test runs and track test results and progress.
Gurock is still looking for additional beta participants. Interested testers can apply for the beta test on Gurock’s website. TestRail is scheduled to be released at the end of this year and will be available as a downloadable web application that can be installed directly on your own server.
About Gurock Software: Gurock Software is specialized in tools for software development teams and quality assurance departments and is known for its Java tracing tool SmartInspect.
Bredex GmbH announced today that version 3.1 of GUIdancer, the automated functional testing tool, is now available for download. As well adding support for the testing of GEF (Graphical Editing Framework) components, the new version is available for MAC OSX as a beta, and is compatible with Eclipse 3.5.
Increased platform and application support are not the only areas where the Eclipse-based test tool has been expanded. GUIdancer’s efficient keyword-driven approach has also been extended to improve the testing of dynamic tables.
“Version 3.1 allows us to reach testers working on GEF applications and MAC OSX who want to attain a long-lasting and maintainable test-coverage, yet see the first successes from day one" said Hans-Joachim Brede, a Managing Director at the company. “We all know that a structured, modular approach is the key to successful test automation. GUIdancer’s simple yet powerful concept supports reusability at every stage of the test process. Test coverage grows quickly and maintenance is drastically reduced compared to other approaches where programming effort is necessary to automate tests.”
GUIdancer allows testers to automate tests from the user perspective without writing or editing any program code. Tests are created either by drag-and-drop from a library of actions or by recording actions from a running application. Both options lead to read-able tests which are easy to expand, change and maintain against changes in an application.
Since releasing version 3.0 in April, the GUIdancer team has also added new actions to the GUIdancer library, including a simpler way of testing native dialogs. The software is available for download on the GUIdancer website, and a fully functional version can be tested with a demo-license. Live-demos of the software are available on request.
BREDEX GmbH
Since 1987, BREDEX GmbH has been providing high quality information technology services in the areas of consultancy, analysis and design, software development, quality assurance and training. Based in Braunschweig, the company has a history of long term customer satisfaction and a focus on forward thinking, developing individual solutions that bring future standards to current project needs. BREDEX sells GUIdancer, which is a powerful and cost effective automatic test tool for Java and HTML applications.
For more information: www.bredexsw.com.
This press release can be downloaded from: http://www.bredex.de/en/news/first.html
Klaros-Testmanagement, the free Ajax-based web application for management of the quality assurance process in software development projects is now available in Version 2.0.
The multitude of enhancements include as the most prominent changes:
– A completly redesigned user interface
– A separate client application for a journaled execution of manual tests
– An interface to the Atlassian JIRA issue management system
All further details can be found in the release notes at http://www.klaros-testmanagement.com/forum/.
For more product information, the download of the free of charge Community Edition, the user forum and much more please visit http://www.klaros-testmanagement.com/.
For more information about verit Informationssysteme GmbH please visit http://www.verit.de/.
New release offers improved handling of AJAX and already supports the new FireFox version 3.5
The new release of itCampus’ innovative test software for automated GUI tests of web applications – web2test – supports besides Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, Mozilla 1.8, Seamonkey 1 and 2 Beta and FireFox 2 and 3 already the newest FireFox version 3.5.
To further improve the handling of AJAX the mutation listeners have been revised.
In addition version 1.3 offers the possibility to record and replay get/post requests. Hence web2test is even better suited for GUI driven performance tests.The general handling of web2test has been improved as well thanks to several new features:
The Checker interface of the new version makes it even easier to extend the already integrated standard checks.
Test suites, run logs or individual test suite nodes can now be bookmarked to make them directly accessible via the new sub-menu File -> Bookmarks.
Furthermore several new variants for converting and (un)packing nodes have been added.
Note: The English version of the web2test website is now available at www.web2test.com.
Contact: Benjamin Franke, Marketing web2test, Tel: +49. 341. 4 92 87 29, Fax: +49. 341. 4 92 87 01, E-Mail: b.franke@itcampus.de
About web2test
web2test has been developed as a co-operation project between itCampus and Quality First Software (QFS). It is a tool for functional system tests of web based applications, portals and complex websites. Further USPs: Tests are platform and browser independent and tolerant towards layout changes. In addition web2test offers a real user simulation for a 100 % AJAX support. The test tool can be used under Windows as well as under Linux. www.web2test.com
About itCampus
itCampus is an innovative software development company closely cooperating with international scientists and researchers. Founded in 1999 in the cities of Halle and Leipzig in Germany, the company today has offices in Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Slovakia. itCampus provides communication solutions, IT consultancy services and custom solutions in the fields of software development and software ergonomics. Since April 1 2009 the Software AG is itCampus’ majority shareholder. www.itcampus.eu
According to a survey held by Typemock, more than half of the developers believe that unit testing can help companies avoid law suits if the new EU software liability bill will pass. Typemock, the Unit testing tools provider, held a survey asking .NET developers if they think that unit testing can help companies avoid law suits if the new EU software liability bill, proposed by Commissioners Viviane Reding and Meglena Kuneva, will pass. 52% of them said that it can.
Typemock asked developers this Online, in their blog, and offline, in Typemock’s Unit Testing Open Microphone event at the 2009 Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC). In this event developers took turns in voicing their opinions on Unit testing and the EU software liability bill. While the majority of them said that they shouldn’t be held liable for their code, they believe that if this bill passes, unit testing will help companies to be confident in their product and avoid future law suits.
Unit testing was one of the central topics at the NDC conference, with keynote speaker Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) declaring that unit testing and TDD are a must for professional software developers, a whole day dedicated to unit testing sessions, and as mentioned, Typemock’s Unit testing event.
“We believe that companies should always strive to release products with the highest quality, that produce real value for the customer, and that unit testing is the most effective way to start making that happen” Says Roy Osherove, Senior Developer at Typemock, and the author of the book the Art Of Unit Testing.
Unit testing is an upcoming software development method in which developers write tests for small parts of their code, and check them individually (in ‘isolation’), and not as part of the whole application. This is done in the first development stage, while coding the application and not in the QA (quality assurance) stage like most tests. Unit testing lowers the ‘Bug Fix Time’ and ‘Bug fix Cost’, and frees up the developers’ time, so that they can create new features instead of fixing bugs.
Typemock develops solutions for .NET unit testing, giving developers the power to easily perform unit testing by making them easy to write and automate. Typemock’s unit testing tools have enabled companies to release their products with higher quality and fewer bugs, while saving both time and money.
EU commissioners are proposing that software companies be held liable for the quality of their products, and Typemock is holding an open microphone event at the Norwegian Developers Conference (NDC) to find out if unit testing can give companies the assurance and confidence needed to meet the proposed bill.Typemock, leaders in developing tools for unit testing, will be raising this issue at the ‘Unit testing and Beer’ event on the first night of the NDC. During this event, developers will discuss whether or not unit testing is the answer for the new bill proposal, what they think of the new bill and Typemock will be polling their opinion both off-line in the event, and on-line, in Typemock’s blog.
“Typemock believes that unit testing is the most effective way to ensure software quality and code integrity and any company that unit tests as part of its development process goes a long way to being exempt from liability.” Says Eli Lopian, Typemock’s CEO.
“What companies should realize is that when you launch with less bugs, it’s not just your users that benefit from it, it’s the company as well. Fewer bugs on the product’s release, means less money spent on fixing bugs after the product has been released, and less resources invested in releasing new versions just to fix these bugs” says Gil Zilberfeld senior developer at Typemock. Typemock case studies show that by locating the bugs in early stages by unit testing with Typemock’s tools has saved its customers up to $80,000 each developer every year.
The results of the polls will be posted on Typemock’s blog.
Coverity, Inc., the software integrity company, announced that co-founder Dawson Engler has been awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his groundbreaking research on automated program checking that identifies defects in complex computer software.In naming Dr. Engler to this award, ACM noted that, "Dawson Engler introduces and develops powerful techniques and tools for practical program analysis that automatically detect errors in code. These methods have now been widely used to check large, complex software systems, uncovering many hidden defects. Dr. Engler’s grounded, insightful, and practical approach to automated program checking has served as an inspiration to several other efforts and tools for finding problems in complex software systems."
The Grace Murray Hopper Award is given to the outstanding young computer professional of the year, selected on the basis of a single recent major technical or service contribution. This award is accompanied by a prize of $35,000, which is provided by Google. The candidate must have been 35 years of age or less at the time the qualifying contribution was made.
"On behalf of the research groups at Stanford and Coverity, it’s an honor to accept the prestigious ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award," said Dawson Engler, associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University and Coverity co-founder. "The field of effective error detection has exploded in the past decade, and it’s my hope we can realize a similar magnitude of improvement in the next ten years. For too long, the pervasiveness of computation has led to the same story: Software is everywhere, but all software is prone to crashing, therefore everything is prone to crashing. I believe we are on the right trajectory to deliver a credible means of ending this costly storyline, so developers can finally focus on building software instead of firefighting failures."
Dr. Engler helped lead the creation of the technology behind Coverity’s software analysis system at Stanford University with Coverity co-founders Ben Chelf, Andy Chou and Seth Hallem who continue to grow Coverity’s precision source code analysis capabilities. Dr. Engler remains on faculty at Stanford and continues as an advisor to Coverity. Today, more than 600 customers rely on Coverity to ensure the integrity of their applications.
"The Grace Murray Hopper award is very impressive, particularly given the fact that previous winners include innovators such as Steve Wozniak, Don Knuth and Richard Stallman," said Seth Hallem, co-founder and CEO of Coverity. "Dawson remains an integral part of helping Coverity shape the technological underpinning of our software integrity strategy. On behalf of Coverity employees, customers and partners we congratulate him on his recognition."
About Coverity
Coverity (www.coverity.com), the software integrity company, is the trusted standard for companies that have a zero tolerance policy for software failures, problems, and security breaches. Coverity’s award winning portfolio of software integrity products helps customers prevent software problems throughout the application lifecycle. Over 100,000 developers and 600 companies rely on Coverity to help them ensure the delivery of superior software. Coverity is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in 6 countries.
Hamburg, Germany April 28, 2009—froglogic has announced that Squish, its leading, automated GUI testing tool, will support the testing of Cocoa Touch based applications on iPhone and iPod Touch devices and simulators.Cocoa Touch provides an abstraction layer over iPhone OS, the operating system used by the iPhone and iPod Touch. Cocoa Touch is based on the Cocoa API and toolset used for building software for Mac OS X computers.
Squish is a professional, cross-platform GUI and regression testing tool that enables testers to create and execute automated GUI tests for applications based on a variety of different GUI technologies. This includes applications based on Nokia’s Qt, Mac OS X Carbon and Cocoa, Java SWT/Eclipse RCP, Java AWT/Swing, Web/HTML/AJAX, and many other UI technologies. Squish stands out from other GUI test tools thanks to its close integration with each supported GUI technology—a feature which helps ensure that tests created with Squish are very robust and stable.
Squish testing a Cocoa Touch application running in the iPhone simulator.
The Squish GUI testing tool is the market leading tool for cross-platform GUI tests and the only GUI testing tool on the market that is capable of testing user interfaces on devices such as smart phones, mobile phones, and other specialized embedded devices. In addition, froglogic’s Squish supports a wide range of desktop platforms—Mac OS X, Windows, and X11 on Linux and Unix—for automated GUI testing.
Squish’s distributed network architecture enables tests to be controlled from desktop PCs, or from a server, while the application under test is executed and tested remotely, for example, on other PCs, or on embedded devices, such as the iPhone or iPod Touch.
"Squish has supported automated GUI testing on Mac OS X since 2005, with native support for the testing of Cocoa and Carbon based GUIs since 2007. These advances, along with the work done over the past few years to adapt Squish to work on several embedded devices and technologies, provided us with a lot of solid building blocks for extending our testing support to include Cocoa Touch applications on the iPhone and iPod Touch."
"We are also very excited by the interest the prospect of this new edition has generated both amongst our customers and from others who develop Cocoa Touch software. In fact, we are convinced that Squish will become an integral part of the development process for high quality iPhone applications."
—Rainer Schmid, froglogic’s leading Mac OS X expert.
A prototype of Squish for Cocoa Touch has been completed. A final version of Squish for Cocoa Touch will be included in the upcoming Squish 4.0 release. For further information and pre-release snapshots, please contact sales@froglogic.com. To learn more about froglogic and Squish, please visit http://www.froglogic.com.
Typemock Ltd., the leading company in the .NET unit testing world, will be launching on 18/May/2009 a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle – and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses.
The ASP.NET Bundle is the ultimate ASP.NET Unit testing solution aimed at professional ASP.NET developers, and offers at a bargain price both Typemock Isolator and Ivonna, the ASP.NET Isolator add-on.
ASP.NET Bundle launch giveaway:
For the ASP.NET Bundle launch on 18/MAY/2009 Typemock will be giving away free licenses to bloggers and their readers. Follow the Typemock Blog , Typemock Site or Typemock Twitter for more details.
Typemock Isolator
Typemock Isolator is a .NET unit testing tool that enables developers to write simpler and maintainable unit tests. With Isolator, developers can create fake objects and test against them, instead of testing against external code. This helps developers to eliminate dependencies, test their code in isolation and achieve better code coverage, ultimately saving time and money, and delivering their code in a shorter period of time. Typemock Isolator gives .NET developers the power to unit test their code, by making unit tests easy to write and automate.
Typemock Ltd is an agile software development company founded in 2004 that creates solutions for simple and easy unit testing.
Ivonna
Unit testing with Ivonna creates and runs ASP.NET requests. Ivonna enables you to examine the intrinsic objects such as the Page object, execute in-process ASP.NET requests (no Web server required), to execute multiple requests in one test method, including postbacks and more. Ivonna 2.0, due to launch soon, includes brand-new features for ASP.NET Unit testing such as:
• test Web controls without adding them to a page
• add, remove, or replace HttpModules
• use a separate configuration file for your tests
• extend the framework by adding custom CThru aspects
Ivonna 2 will provide full support for ASP.NET MVC.
JavaScript bridge sets new standards for the testing of web applications – handling and documentation of web2test improved as well
Software developer itCampus has released version 1.2 of its innovative test software. The tool allows for automated, functional testing of web applications and supports most of the established browsers from Internet Explorer to FireFox and Seamonkey.
During the past few weeks the itCampus developer team has been working on several new features which greatly improve the testing using web2test.
This precisely means:
-A JavaScript bridge in the new version grants the user read and write access to JavaScript objects in the browser DOM and hence opens a variety of new possibilities for the implementation of test scenarios.
-Via “rc.setOption” the majority of the program options can be set during runtime for selected test cases or parts thereof. This greatly increases the flexibility of test cases.
-web2test now includes new standard procedures for checking CSS properties like color or font attributes.
-The support of modal dialogs has been enhanced.
-Furthermore web2test now offers a revised and extended documentation; thus two tutorial chapters – one for the testing of AJAX elements and one for ensuring correct prerequisites have been added.
Holger Flemig, main developer of web2test about the new version 1.2: “With the new JavaScript bridge and the new rc.setOption feature there are practically no more limits for the testing with web2test.”
Why is it so hard to test dynamic and Ajax based web pages? They work in your browser, so why do so many test tools struggle with this? This was a core focus for JadeLiquid as we developed LiquidTest, our brand new automated Web Application testing framework.
Built upon Browser Automation, LiquidTest consists of an Eclipse rich client application (and Plug-in) for recording Browser actions in Firefox™ and Internet Explorer™ and outputting succinct and robust
test cases in Java™, JUnit and TestNG, C# NUnit, Ruby and Groovy™.
Core LiquidTest functionality:
– Browser Automation – Firefox and Internet Explorer
– Succinct cross-platform script generation and execution
– Easy recording and replay of test cases
– Integrations with JUnit, Continuous Integration, Eclipse, .NET and other frameworks
– Language support for Java, C# (.NET), Groovy and Ruby
– IDE plugins (Eclipse) and standalone, and headless server component
– Open SDK for plugins and custom integrations
– Headless test case execution and scalable across a Grid
– Data-driven support: Powerful GUI, and direct support for Excel spreadsheets
– Advanced testing features: Expectation model – no sleeps! Drag and drop, Ajax support etc.
The LiquidTest framework consists of three separate editions; Developer Edition, Tester Edition
and Server Edition.
The LiquidTest Developer Edition has been created for Software Developers aiming to
complement their Agile software development practices by integrating Functional Tests (as Unit
Tests) into their Software Development Process. LiquidTest supports headless test case
execution which allows for regression tests at every step of the build process. Support for
Continuous Integration means that the LiquidTest Server can be integrated on your Continuous
Integration machine and utilized in an automated test execution manner to provide complete
Functional and Acceptance Test coverage.
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New Java Analysis Allows Android Application Developers to Accurately Identify Performance and Reliability Issues
BURLINGTON, Mass. – November 11, 2008 – Klocwork, Inc., the proven leader in automated source code analysis solutions for improving software security and quality, today announced the Java static source code analysis capabilities of Klocwork Insight have been extended to support the unique requirements of Android application developers. With this new solution, Klocwork introduces a customized family of defect checkers with knowledge of Android application programming interfaces (APIs) to deliver accurate, relevant results to software developers creating applications for this platform.
Klocwork Insight’s powerful Java engine provides scalable, inter-procedural analysis of source code that is already in use by mobile device and smart phone software developers globally. With new, customized defect checkers, developers can not only leverage Klocwork’s core analysis library but can now harness a built-in awareness of Android APIs to identify a variety of bugs that can cause runtime failure, such as NULL pointer exceptions, resource leaks and usages of freed resources. These are issues that can be critical to the reliability of embedded and mobile devices.
"Android has emerged as a major new platform for mobile device application development,” said Gwyn Fisher, Klocwork’s chief technology officer. “Klocwork has a proud history of providing accurate, effective source code analysis for the embedded and mobile device markets. These new capabilities allow us to continue our success in these markets by providing a solution for the rapidly growing community of Android developers.”
Klocwork Insight is a leading static source code analysis tool for C, C++, C# and Java, and the only solution with a Connected Desktop Analysis capability that enables developers to run the analysis with full system context right at their desktop, before they check-in their code.
About Klocwork
Klocwork is an enterprise software company providing automated source code analysis software products that automate security vulnerability and quality risk assessment, remediation and measurement for C, C++, C#, and Java software. More than 300 organizations have integrated Klocwork’s automated source code analysis tools into their software development process in order to ensure their code is free of mission-critical flaws while freeing their developers to focus on what they do best – innovate.
Contact Klocwork for more information at www.klocwork.com or [email]info@klocwork.com[/email].
Klocwork and the Klocwork logo are registered trademarks of Klocwork, Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
A recent poll examined how organizations perform unit testing. Despite the fact that the number of TDD adopters has grown nicely since the previous similar survey, unit testing is still widely conducted in a informal manner, when it is not simply ignored by developers.
Read the full survey results on http://www.methodsandtools.com/dynpoll/oldpoll.php?UnitTest2
“Surely such an attitude cannot continue to exist in delivering software that is increasingly underpinning business critical applications” *
October 7, 2008 – A study into the views of top-level executives and CIOs on software quality, announced today by Original Software, reveals corporate apathy and the failings of a multi-billion dollar industry. When asked how the importance of their software quality is perceived within the business, over 40% of CIOs admitted ‘not at all’ or ‘as a nice to have’. Not surprising then that a recent IDC survey revealed that more than 40% of all software applications are released with between one and ten critical defects, the management being fully aware of this at the time of issue.
“Such disregard is surprising given the number of high-profile horror stories the media have recently reported about poor software quality” said Colin Armitage, CEO of Original Software. “The launch of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow was a PR disaster due to a ‘systems fault’, a failed ERP installation into American LaFrance caused the fire-engine company to go into bankruptcy, and medical equipment killing hospital patients when a flaw in the computer code caused systems to administer heavy overdoses – to name just a few.”
The survey uncovered that issues of software quality were making it to the boardroom – not surprising given the consequences when something does go wrong – with more than 80% of CIOs directly involved with forming SQA policies. The greatest SQA challenge facing respondents was balancing cost and resource (53%). This was followed by the quality of the software and its risk to business (30%)
So if they are taking notice, why is there such apathy in the boardroom to software testing? The survey revealed that of companies who had invested in software testing solutions, only 6% were happy that it had met their objectives (the primary ones being to produce higher quality applications – 62% – and improve resource efficiency – 28%).
“Many organizations don’t spend nearly enough effort on improving the quality of the software they produce. More often than not they pay lip service to the concept whilst secretly holding the belief that it is a waste of resources (time, staff and money).” *says Bola Rotbi, Principal Analyst at research firm MWD in her article – the importance of “good enough” in software quality”
Colin Armitage agrees: “Achieving quality takes time, effort and money, and in the current credit crunch constrained times one can understand a temptation to take short cuts. There is an apathy and disregard of test automation, borne perhaps, from the limited success of solutions that came out of the last century, needing months to configure, requiring expensive and scarce specialist skills and simply collapsing in the face of rapidly changing applications. ‘Solutions’ which at best will only address 20% of the problem, only give ‘solutions’ a bad name. It is time for a rethink. CIOs cannot forego basic IT fundamentals and CEOs and shareholders cannot let them. We need cost effective technology in these cost constrained times.” he concluded.
For more information on the research which covered numerous topics including IT budgets and technology trends, please download the full whitepaper here
Ends
The survey was conducted by Richmond reports and sponsored by Original Software. The respondents were all delegates of the CIO forum in New York, their companies having average annual revenues of $5.8billion, and IT budgets of $764 million.
About Original Software
Original Software offers automated software testing and quality assurance solutions that deliver tangible benefits across a wide range of IT and application environments. As a recognized innovator, Original Software’s goal is to reduce business risk and improve application time to market for IT departments through the development of class leading automated solutions.
Over the last 10 years, more than 400 organizations operating in 25 countries have come to depend on Original Software for their software testing solutions. Current users range from small software development shops to major multinationals, including Cargill Global Financial Solutions, Circuit City Stores, Pfizer Pharmaceutical (Ireland), DHL, Coca-Cola, Skandia and hundreds of others.
Original Software operates central offices near Chicago and London. Their solutions can be obtained through these offices or through a network of qualified and knowledgeable business partners throughout Europe, the Middle East, Australasia and the Americas.
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Coverity™, Inc., the leader in improving software quality and security, today announced Coverity Prevent™ for C#. The product utilizes a new analysis engine developed by Coverity’s research and development lab that is designed specifically for detecting defects in applications built on Microsoft’s .NET framework. Prevent for C# expands the language coverage of Coverity’s static analysis products, and brings the company’s proven expertise in automatic defect detection to developers programming in C#. Over 450 development organizations currently use Coverity Prevent to ensure the quality and security of their C/C++ and Java code.
“To remain competitive, software development team leads need to stock their developer’s tool-box with advanced technology to maintain or improve productivity that helps them deliver higher quality code to everyone upstream,” said Theresa Lanowitz, founder of voke, a technology analyst firm. “As a language, C# is playing an increasing role in failure-intolerant devices, particularly in the embedded space. Coverity’s expertise in static analysis will be a welcome addition to the tool-box of any C# developer.”
Unlike other static tools that simply extend existing analysis capabilities to encompass a new language, Prevent for C# is based on an entirely new analysis engine designed and optimized for Microsoft .NET-based applications. It seamlessly handles features of the C# language such as operator overloading, properties, and idioms for iteration and resource management. Prevent for C# also automatically finds third party .NET assemblies to ensure a complete analysis result, no matter how complex the application.
Coverity Prevent for C# automatically analyzes large, complex C# code bases and detects critical, must-fix defects that could lead to system failures, memory corruption or performance degradation. Because the product is the only C# static analysis tool to deliver 100% path coverage, it delivers the most comprehensive and accurate C# source code analysis. Prevent for C# requires no changes to existing build processes or code, and easily integrates into existing build processes and requires little or no additional hardware. Key capabilities of Prevent for C# include: Detect Critical Defects – Automatic detection of defects in C# source code that can cause crashes, performance degradation and incorrect program behavior
* 100% Path Coverage – Analysis of every path in C# code bases, ensuring that all possible execution branches are followed
* Low False Positive Rate – Accurate, actionable results help developers immediately begin improving the quality and security of their code
* Flexible Workflow – Defect Manager product interface allows teams to collaboratively view analysis results, triage defects, assign ownership, and provides comprehensive workflow capabilities
* Highly Scalable – Millions of lines of code can be analyzed in a matter of hours
“Coverity developed Prevent for C# in response to requests from our existing customer base and the growing use of the .NET application framework in mission-critical systems where software defects can be tremendously costly,” said Andy Chou, chief scientist and co-founder at Coverity. “Delivering new technology so that our static analysis product line covers C, C++, C# and Java is a significant milestone on our roadmap for our flagship static analysis solution.”
About Coverity
Coverity (www.coverity.com), the leader in improving software quality and security, is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity’s groundbreaking technology enables developers to control complexity in the development process by automatically finding and helping to repair critical software defects and security vulnerabilities throughout the application lifecycle. More than 450 leading companies including ARM, Phillips, RIM, Rockwell-Collins, Samsung and UBS rely on Coverity to help them ensure the delivery of superior software.
The Channel9 people came by Microsoft Research and shoot an interview of the Pex team.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/briankel/Pex-Automated-Exploratory-Testing-for-NET/
Pex is an automated whitebox test generation tool for .Net.