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.
www.origsoft.com
www.manualtesting.com
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.
Fixture Gallery is a cookbook for FIT/FitNesse tests. It provides developers with a quick overview of the most important fixture types and concepts for agile acceptance testing using the FIT framework. For each fixture type, this document explains the table format and fixture class structure and provides advice when to use and when not to use it. Each example is accompanied by the source code for Java, .NET and Python FIT implementations, in a form that can be easily copied and used as a template for similar fixtures.
Version 2.0 brings:
- Python examples for all fixtures and concepts explained in the document.
- Examples for ConstraintFixture, CombinationFixture, CalculateFixture
and notes about SetFixture and SubSetFixture.
Many thanks to Jens Engel and Mike Stockdale for their contributions to
this version.
For more information and download links see
http://gojko.net/fitnesse/fixturegallery/
Original Software launches TestDrive-Assist and community site with free downloads
Chicago, April 8, 2008 – Original Software, a leader in next-generation software test automation, today announced the launch of ManualTesting.com and the latest version of TestDrive-Assist, its unique solution aimed at streamlining the manual testing process without taking away any control from the tester. ManualTesting.com is a community site for software quality professionals containing numerous free resources designed to alleviate the headaches caused by the burden of time-consuming manual testing on QA departments. The site also features a free trial download of the newly-launched product, which can reduce the time spent on manual testing by over a third.
The new website provides access to free resources and downloads such as a manual testing e-seminar, an ‘ask the experts’ zone for help and advice, the latest whitepaper entitled Manual Testers Don’t Grow On Trees and also light relief in the form of a community blog. Next week will see the addition of a rather addictive online game – the pit-stop challenge, where players can win a Nintendo Wii.
According to IDC, spend on software test automation is over $1,000,000,000, and is destined to keep on growing, but in contrast to the huge spending trends, Original Software’s own research has shown that these investments are only being applied to less than 20 percent of the overall testing cycle – the QA departments continue to rely on manual processes for 80 percent or more of their software testing. In fact, most development teams carry out little or no automation of their testing – choosing instead to run a completely manual process.
Original’s solution, TestDrive-Assist, is designed to help business analysts, QA teams and user-acceptance testers in detecting and reproducing errors, sharing knowledge, and producing audit-quality diagnostics and reporting. With less than a ten minute learning curve, users are up-and-running instantly and workload is reduced by over a third. The latest version includes a new link validation panel and enhancements to the spell checking functionality as well as the option to import a test plan to use as a checklist.
“For the majority of test teams, automated testing doesn’t work effectively for them, is too complicated or simply not appropriate. It is a fact that manual testing is here to stay, but the process continues to be a major bottle neck of application development” said Colin Armitage, CEO of Original Software. “With the launch of manual testing.com we hope to assist the community with their manual testing processes. As an industry we are still too focused on trying to replace human testing rather than using automation to help testers be more effective. We launched TestDrive-Assist to rectify this. It is an integral part of our total testing solution and can help out testers by streamlining the manual process by more than a third.”
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.
www.origsoft.com
www.manualtesting.com
Fixture Gallery is a cookbook for FIT/FitNesse tests. It provides developers with a quick overview of the most important fixture types and concepts for agile acceptance testing using the FIT framework. For each fixture type, this document explains the table format and fixture class structure and provides advice when to use and when not to use it. Each example is accompanied by the source code for Java and .NET FIT implementations, in a form that can be easily copied and used as a template for similar fixtures.
See http://gojko.net/fitnesse/fixturegallery/ for more information and download links.
I am pleased to finally announce version 1.0 of DbFit. DbFit is a set of FIT fixtures which enables FIT/FitNesse tests to execute directly against a database. This enables developers to manipulate database objects in a relational tabular form, making database testing and management much easier than with xUnit-style tools. The library is free to use, released under GNU GPL.
Version 1.0 (2008-03-10) is a major cleanup release. Grab it from [url=http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=191053&package_id=224326]SourceForge[/url].
Major updates
1. Support for in-out parameters in stored procedures.
2. Support for querying stored results
3. Support for SQL Server 2000 in .NET. Not as complete as Sql Server 2005, but should work in most cases.
4. Support for testing blank-padded fixed length CHAR types.
5. .NET version now compiled with FitNesse.NET 1.5
6. Proper documentation — finally. The documentation is available as PDF and FitNesse (included in the dbfit-complete package) and also online at FitNesse.Info.
Minor updates
1. Oracle date used as Timestamp to allow V8 compatibility switch to work
2. Stored procedure params no longer have to be listed in the same order as in db
3. GUID handler now just redirecting to standard GUID handler in .NET
4. OrderedQuery and StoreParameter fixtures for standalone mode
5. bugfix for transactions not getting rolled back in Java after tests in flow mode
6. bugfix for ntext and text field sizes in sql server
7. bugfix for fail[null] NullPointerException in Java
8. workaround for fail[null] bug in fitnesse.net 1.5
9. Acceptance tests now reorganised better.
Many thanks to Marisa Seal for her help with the documentation and Oscar Centeno for his help with Sql Server 2000 implementation.
For more information on DbFit, see http://fitnesse.info/dbfit/
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gojko adzic
http://gojko.net
A recent Methods & Tools poll researched the agile software development practices adoption rate in organizations. The question asked was "At what stage is the agile approach (XP, Scrum, TDD, …) adoption at your location?" A similar poll was already performed in 2005. Its results are between brackets.
Not aware: 13% (26%)
Not using: 13% (16%)
Investigating: 14% (14%)
Analysed and rejected: 4% (3%)
Pilot projects: 8% (4%)
Partial implementation (adoption of some agile practices): 17% (17%)
Partial deployment (some projects are using this approach): 14% (12%)
Deployed (all new projects are using this approach): 17% (8%)
Participants: 512 (232 in 2005)
Comparing the two sets of results, we could notice that the level of ignorance of the agile movement has decreased, as only 13% of the organizations are not aware of its existence. Full deployment numbers have doubled in the recent years to reach 17% and total rate of various adoption levels is now 56% compared to 41% in 2005.
Complete results, analysis and extensive references to other agile adoption survey are available on http://www.methodsandtools.com/dynpoll/oldpoll.php?Agile2
February 26, 2008 – Typemock Ltd, the world leading unit testing framework provider, announced today the new release of Typemock Isolator, the ultimate solution to enable shorter development cycles, higher quality of production code, better tested and more stable software components.
The Typemock Isolator mocking framework enables any .NET type to be isolated for being unit tested and functionally verified. In addition, any already written legacy code or third party component can be isolated and consequently complex and cross components logic and can be easily performed.
Typemock’s new release, Isolator V4.2 is an intuitive and robust solution that introduces firstly a support of the new .NET 3.5 framework as well as Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008. Version 4.2 has an improved IDE integration based on using colors to emphasize mocked methods making the best visualization, easiness and comfort for developers to verify their code developments.
On top, Typemock Isolator V4.2 provides full support of synergetic solutions such as Finalbuilder™ and DotTracer™ profiler, making this new release the most powerful testing framework for .NET developments ever.
In today’s increasing demand for a quick time to market of releasing new applications, Typemock™ Isolator enables organizations a true reduction of precious development cycles that results in a significant competitive market advantage. Organization can assure today a better software quality in an automatic process and gain an important time to market of new applications, said Eli Lopian, Chief Executive Officer for Typemock: "We are always seeking ways to help our customers simplify the development process, and our improved interface and integration with the market leading tools ensures organizations and developers with easiness, better software quality and a true saving of development expenditure”.
Point your browser to http://www.typemock.com/Downloads.php and evaluate today the Typemock Isolator product.
Mark your calendar for the live special webcast of Typemock Isolator on Wednesday, March 12th at 4PM GMT (8AM PST). To join the webcast and for further details please click here.
WebTest is an extension to FIT/FitNesse that implements a customer-friendly language for web testing, utilising Selenium Remote Control. WebTest runs inside FitNesse, allowing you to integrate web UI tests into an automated build system, and use other FitNesse fixtures to talk to your domain model, prepare and verify database changes during Web UI tests. Both .NET and Java FitNesse runners are supported, and the library is released under GPL.
Release 2.0 is now available, significantly expanding the customer-oriented mini language for web tests and introducing much better methods for AJAX testing. This release also brings support for plain Selenium scripts, which enables people to record a UI test using point-and-click tools like Selenium IDE, but still keep all the benefits of integration with automated build tools and domain/database integration fixtures that FitNesse provides.
Download source code, examples and binaries from
http://fitnesse.info/webtest/
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Gojko Adzic
http://gojko.net
Small and medium-size development teams can now benefit from TeamCity’s completely redesigned licensing scheme which makes its innovative productivity- and quality-enhancing features available at no cost. Two editions, Professional (free) and Enterprise, are now available to meet the specific needs of smaller and larger teams and projects.
TeamCity 3.0 continues to deliver superior automation and coordination of key collaborative processes to eliminate manual systems and delays and is tightly integrated with the most popular IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio), version control systems, multiple build and test tools, real-time unit test reports, server-side inspections and code coverage analysis.
The key new features of this release include:
• Per-project access rights with project roles – an exclusive feature of the Enterprise edition
• Build statistics charts, with declarative pluggable charts for user-defined metrics
• Pre-tested commit from Visual Studio for Subversion
• StarTeam support
• .NET Duplicates finder for catching similar code fragments of your C# and Visual Basic .NET code
• Java Inspections and Duplicates for Maven2 projects
• Version Control labeling for Subversion, CVS, Perforce, StarTeam, ClearCase
• “Hanging” builds auto-detection and thread dump capturing, for quick feedback on Java and .NET builds’ problems
• Display of build start/finish estimations in the build queue
• Build tags for organizing and quickly filtering builds
To learn more about new features in TeamCity 3.0, please visit
www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/features/newfeatures.html?tc30a.
For additional details about the new licensing scheme for Professional, Enterprise and Open Source licenses, see http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/?tc30a .
Existing TeamCity users qualify for a free upgrade to the most feature-rich Enterprise edition. For details, go to http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/index.html#upgradeuser?tc30a.
TeamCity 3.0 continues to deliver superior automation and coordination of key collaborative processes to eliminate manual systems and delays and is tightly integrated with the most popular IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio), version control systems, multiple build and test tools, real-time unit test reports, server-side inspections and code coverage analysis.
The key new features of this release include:
• Per-project access rights with project roles – an exclusive feature of the Enterprise edition
• Build statistics charts, with declarative pluggable charts for user-defined metrics
• Pre-tested commit from Visual Studio for Subversion
• StarTeam support
• .NET Duplicates finder for catching similar code fragments of your C# and Visual Basic .NET code
• Java Inspections and Duplicates for Maven2 projects
• Version Control labeling for Subversion, CVS, Perforce, StarTeam, ClearCase
• “Hanging” builds auto-detection and thread dump capturing, for quick feedback on Java and .NET builds’ problems
• Display of build start/finish estimations in the build queue
• Build tags for organizing and quickly filtering builds
To learn more about new features in TeamCity 3.0, please visit
www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/features/newfeatures.html?tc30a.
For additional details about the new licensing scheme for Professional, Enterprise and Open Source licenses, see http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/?tc30a .
Existing TeamCity users qualify for a free upgrade to the most feature-rich Enterprise edition. For details, go to http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/index.html#upgradeuser?tc30a.
The MockFtpServer project provides a mock/dummy FTP server for testing FTP client code. It can be configured to return custom data or reply codes, to simulate either success or failure scenarios. Expected command invocations can also be verified.
MockFtpServer is written in Java, and is ideally suited to testing Java code. But because communication with the FTP server is across sockets and TCP/IP, it can be used to test FTP client code written in any language.
Hamburg, Germany – 2007-10-23– froglogic GmbH today announced that Squish, a leading, cross-platform automated GUI testing tool for Qt applications now officially supports Trolltech’s Qt Jambi framework.Qt Jambi is a cross-platform, rich client application development framework for Java. It includes a comprehensive class library and integrated development tools for high-end rich client application development. To organizations developing high performance, cross-platform desktop applications with the Java programming language, Qt Jambi increases development efficiency, adds freedom and flexibility to Java development, and provides the assurances of a solid, mature framework.
Squish for Qt is a specialized GUI testing framework allowing to create and run automated GUI tests against Qt and Qtopia applications. Squish is being successfully used in QA departments across the world to increase quality while saving cost and time.
With the adoption of Squish supporting automated testing of Qt Jambi-based GUI applications, Java engineers can not only create professional Qt-based GUI applications in the Java programming language but can also take advantage of a proven GUI testing framework to ensure and enhance the quality of their applications.
"Making Qt available for Java developers is an exciting move from Trolltech as it makes Qt available to a large, new market", said Koos Vriezen, Java team lead at froglogic. "By making Squish support the Qt Jambi framework we ensure that customers can benefit from a single solution to automate testing for both their Java and C++ development."
"We are really excited to see our partner froglogic supporting our new Qt Jambi technology. The combined value of both of our technologies makes Qt Jambi even more attractive for professional software development", said Naren Karattup, Qt Product Director at Trolltech.
For more information about Squish please visit
http://www.froglogic.com or contact squish@froglogic.com.
For more information about Qt or Qt Jambi, please visit
http://www.trolltech.com or contact info@trolltech.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 different web browsers. froglogic also offers services in the areas QA/automated testing and Qt C++ programming and consulting. More about froglogic at http://www.froglogic.com.
About Trolltech:
Trolltech creates application development platforms for desktop and mobile device innovation. Trolltech’s software increases the appeal of our customers’ desktop applications and devices while reducing their risks and software development costs. Trolltech’s technologies accelerate the evolution of software by unleashing the creative power of the developer.
Trolltech software is the foundation for thousands of leading products worldwide, many from Global 2000 companies. Trolltech is a second-generation open source company, with a dual licensing business model that supports open source values and methodology in a profitable, sustainable business. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TROLL. For more information about Trolltech, please visit http://www.trolltech.com.
I am pleased to announce a new version 1.1 of MoMEUnit J2ME test framework.
MoMEUnit is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing of J2ME applications. It is derived from well known JUnit framework. It overcomes lack of reflection API and other restrictions of J2ME MIDP API and supports such main features of JUnit framework as ease of development and run of tests, sharing the same fixture among different tests, running test in its own fresh fixture, modification of fixture for a group of tests, possibility of simultaneous tests runs, Independence of tests runners (different tests runners can be used with framework package) and much more.
Changes in version 1.1.
Ant integration was added in new version. Tasks from ant integration package can be used alone or in conjunction with other J2ME related ant projects.
MoMEUnit Ant Integration offers following functionality.
+ Calculates list of tests to run based on Test interface implementation and specified patterns. There is no need to specify test cases to run explicitly.
+ Runs test cases of already built J2ME application or builds test application on behalf of developer based on source files, classes, resources and libraries specified. It can be used as a J2ME test applications build tool.
+ Preverifies J2ME application before running tests on demand.
+ Formats tests run output by using predefined or custom tests results formatters like in <junit> task. All test characteristics including times and stack traces are available.
+ Gives developers possibility to choose emulator and/or preverify tool to run by specifying predefined or custom emulator or preverifier.
+ Gives developers possibility to configure test J2ME application by specifying attributes of application JAD descriptor and/or manifest.
+ and much more.
MoMEUnit is available under Common Public License – v 1.0.
More information can be found at MoMEUnit Site.
To download MoMEUnit, please, use following link "Download".
Alberto Savoia has published his chapter from Beautiful Code here.
WebAii Beta2 is now available from ArtOfTest, Inc. at www.artoftest.com. Beta2 adds over 20 new features. Some of the most exciting features:
1. JavaScript unit testing and invoking script functions directly from your .NET test code.
2. Richer element identification methods. Use regexs to find elements, serialize your elements find params as xml and managed them as external files away from your test logic.
3. First class ASP.NET Support. Use AspNet Development Server (Cassini) to execute tests in addition to an Asp.Net TestRegion custom control to help you build testability into your markup applications at design time.
4. For your continuous integration testing use our AspNet In-Process host support to execute tests without a need for a browser or a webserver. All running and processing pages in process.
5. Web Unit Extension: Specialized test fixtures for you unit testing your web applications.
6. Over 50 Nunit and Visual Studio Team Test Samples to help get you started quick and easy.
More details go to www.artoftest.com
WebAii is a FREE .NET Automation infrastructure built from the group up to support Web/Ajax testing that integrates directly with Visual Studio Team Test or NUnit.
A new instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing of J2ME applications – MoMEUnit was released. It is derived from well known JUnit framework of course. It is CLDC 1.1 complied. This framework overcomes lack of reflection API in J2ME MIDP API and supports such main features of JUnit framework as base of development and run of tests, sharing the same fixture among different tests, running test in its own fresh fixture, modification of fixture for a group of tests, possibility of simultaneous tests runs, independence of tests runners (different tests runners can be used with framework package) and much more.
This framework provides as an extension a MIDletTestRunner – a fully configurable MIDlet. It is intended to run tests in emulator or mobile device. It shows the results of tests run (progress bar, statistics, lists of failures or errors with detailed messages for each test) in one screen. The tests can be run automatically during start-up and re executed more times later. It can print descriptive messages of failures and errors thrown together with stack-trace to the standard error output
May 15, 2007 – SoftLogica announces WAPT 5.0, the new version of its load, stress and performance testing tool for web sites, web servers and applications with web interfaces. In contrast to "800-pound gorilla" load testing tools, WAPT is designed to minimize the learning curve and give the user an ability to create a heavy load from a single regular workstation. You can create a basic test scenario and get meaningful information about your performance landscape in a matter of minutes. WAPT is able to generate up to 3000 simultaneously acting virtual users for an "average" test scenario using standard hardware configuration (Pentium 4 2GHz, 1GB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet).
WAPT creates a test workload which is virtually the same as the load experienced by a web site in the real world. Virtual users in each profile are fully customizable. They can have individual IP address (IP spoofing), user name and password, and persistent cookies, to name a few. Basic and Integrated Windows (NTLM) authentication methods are supported.
Graphs and reports are shown in real-time at different levels of detail, thus helping to manage the testing process. You don’t need to wait for the completion of the test to get results, so if you have already identified a problem, you can stop the test, fix the problem and start the test again to check for performance changes.
The command line interface allows you to integrate WAPT into the existing development environment. Standard XML files are used to store test scenarios and can be modified by third party software.
What’s New in version 5.0:
Tree-type Log Viewer: Comprehensive log viewer provides detailed representation of all requests, responses and errors that occur during the test run. This information is structured with the help of a tree view with several levels of details: profile, user, session and iteration. Using the tree view you can find any information easily without need to search through megabytes of log files. You can navigate to any particular request or browse errors one by one.
Automatic Parameterization of Requests: WAPT can be configured to automatically find dynamic values in responses during recording. It creates corresponding variables and uses them when recording subsequent requests. This feature significantly simplifies the design of tests for pages with dynamic content.
The detailed list of all 11 new features: http://www.loadtestingtool.com/version50.shtml
Pricing and Availability:
WAPT is designed for Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.
The 30-day trial version with full set of features limited to 20 concurrent virtual users can be downloaded at http://www.loadtestingtool.com/wapt.exe.
The program is priced at $350 (USD) per license. Volume discounts are available. Free technical support is provided by e-mail (support@loadtestingtool.com) and by phone (+7.383.3356692).
TargetProcess is agile project management software. Designed with simplicity in mind, TargetProcess helps software development companies to reduce complexity of software project management and simplify planning, tracking and quality assurance activities.
Check TargetProcess to get more details.
Backbase and froglogic join forces to deliver fully automated Ajax testing to Backbase’s Global 2000 customers, eliminating a barrier to Ajax adoption.
San Mateo, California and Hamburg, Germany, May 8, 2007 Backbase®, the
leading provider of enterprise software for creating Ajax-based Rich
Internet Applications, today announced a partnership with froglogic®,
the provider of Squish®, the market-leading automated testing tool for
GUI applications. The partnership removes a major barrier to
enterprise Ajax adoption: the lack of proper automated testing tools.
Ajax applications can’t be tested with existing Web testing tools
because those tools can’t handle the complexity of Ajax widgets and
the asynchronous nature of Ajax applications. This has severely
limited the adoption of Ajax for enterprise projects. Manual testing
of these applications is extremely labor intensive and some companies
must hire temporary workers to get enough testing capacity.
The partnership with froglogic provides Backbase Enterprise Ajax
software users with a proven automated testing solution that supports
all major browsers and platforms and delivers unique features like
test recording and playback. It supplements testing tools like Mercury
TestDirector that are already used in many large corporations, which
are a key market for Backbase. The froglogic partnership paves the way
for accelerated Ajax adoption in the enterprise.
"Our customers have asked for automated testing, and this partnership
provides them with a best-of-breed GUI testing tool that is optimized
for use with Backbase", says Jouk Pleiter, CEO of Backbase, "major
Backbase customers are successfully using froglogic Squish in their
testing processes."
Visitors to JavaOne can see the integrated solution at the Backbase
booth #712. A recorded demonstration is available at
http://www.froglogic.com/download/demos/backbase/. More information at
http://squish.froglogic.com and http://www.backbase.com.
About Backbase
Backbase is the leading provider of enterprise software for creating
Ajax-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Medium to large
enterprises and independent software vendors use Backbase to enhance
the usability of their Web applications, migrate fat client
applications to the Web, deliver next-generation online self-service
applications, and create enterprise mashups. Founded in 2003, Backbase
is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with international offices
in Canada, France, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Additional
information is available at www.backbase.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 (Swing, SWT, etc.), Tk or XView
and for HTML/Ajax-based web applications running in different web
browsers. froglogic also offers services in the areas QA/automated
testing and Qt C++ programming and consulting. More about froglogic at
http://www.froglogic.com.
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Note to Editors: "Backbase" is a registered trademark of Backbase
B.V. "froglogic" and "Squish" are registered trademarks of froglogic
GmbH. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
MASSACHUSETTS – April 22, 2007 – InCisif Software announced the release of InCisif.net 1.3. InCisif.net is an automation tool designed to implement client-side functional testing of web applications under Internet Explorer 6 or 7, using languages such as C#, VB.Net or IronPython.
Tests can be developed within Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2003/2005 or Visual Studio Express Edition IDE.
New features in the 1.3 release include:
- New methods to support AJAX applications
- New methods to support keyboard events
- An XML test/suite reporting API
- Support for IronPython as a test development language
To learn more and download an evaluation copy, go to InCisif.net
TeamCity 2.0 comes with Eclipse plugin which enables each member of the software team to create “regular” and “personal” builds remotely, monitor the status of integrating changes into the project code base, view the tests results and build log, maintain the code quality, and much more within the IDE and enhanced IntelliJ IDEA plugin.
WebAii™ Beta is now available – WebAii™ is the latest offering from ArtOfTest, Inc. that caters specifically to automated testing of the "Web 2.0" generation of internet applications (specifically Ajax Applications) using both InternetExplorer & Firefox. WebAii is one the most advanced and rich .NET automation infrastructures available in today’s market and is provided FREE of charge to the developer and quality assurance community.
WebAii™ offers an innovative approach to radically reduce maintenance costs of automated web tests while enhancing the agility and robustness of test suites. WebAii also comes with tight Visual Studio Team Test integration in addition to many new features. WebAii is unique in its rich and extensible architecture and can be integrated easily in commercial and enterprise applications that require web automation support or web data mining. Read Product Overview
Proud to be a test-driven developer? Eager to show you’re never going back to refactoring without tests? Need to remind everyone in your team to code first? Now you can wear your true colors!
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Black tees are also available, but please note the transfer mode for dark shirts on CafePress is still in beta stage. The graphic quality has not been as good as that of white tee prints.
The test-driven shirts are here, and the Build Cop shirts here.