Download and Installation
Note: QF-Test/web
- the web-only variant of QF-Test - is solely available for customers also purchasing
or having purchased a Java variant of QF-Test. Parties interested in just web testing
(without Java) please refer to our partner itCampus and
their web-only product web2test, which is based on
QF-Test. Existing customers of QFS may obtain QF-Test/web via QFS.
Free evaluation
The version of QF-Test provided here for download is the full, commercial version. An
extensive manual and a learning-by-doing tutorial in both English and German is enclosed
with the software and also available online (manual, tutorial).
Licenses
Without registering you can run the demos, work through the tutorial and test whether QF-Test works with your
own software with the following restrictions:
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Test-suites cannot be saved.
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Only those test-suites provided with QF-Test can be loaded.
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To enable all features for a full evaluation, new users should request an
evaluation license.
Upgrading an old license: If you already have a valid commerical or evaluation
license for QF-Test 2.2 or earlier, please proceed as follows to obtain a license upgrade
to QF-Test 3.0:
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Download and install QF-Test as described below. It can be installed parallel to your old
installation. Make a backup copy of your old license and install it so that QF-Test will
pick it up.
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When you start QF-Test you will be informed that your license is not valid for it. Click
the "Request update" button to bring up your browser with a license upgrade form. Please
fill in and submit the form. Be very careful to provide the correct email address.
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Download
The latest development version of QF-Test is 3.1.4, the latest production version is
3.0.3. Please see Release notes
and Upgrades for details about the
latest changes, upgrading from previous versions and an explanation of the differences
between development and production versions.
A choice of three packages is available for the installation of QF-Test. All of these
represent the full QF-Test/suite+web product including QF-Test/swing, QF-Test/swt and QF-Test/web.
Your license determines
which of the products you are allowed to use. Please see the Licensing Models page for details about the
product and license types.
Old production versions
Windows installation
On Windows you can install QF-Test using either the Windows
specific qftest-x.y.z.exe or the archive
qftest-x.y.z.zip.
Installing QF-Test from qftest-x.y.z.exe follows
the standard setup procedures for Windows. You will be asked to accept
the license agreement and select the root directory for
QF-Test. When upgrading to a new version, make sure you select the
same directory again (this will be the default).
To install QF-Test from the qftest-x.y.z.zip archive,
first extract the archive in a convenient place. The default location
is C:\Program Files\qfs. This will create a
directory called qftest which we will refer to as the
root directory of QF-Test. When the qftest product family grows, this
directory will become the home for other products as well. After
extracting the archive, run the executable file called setup.exe
in the version-specific directory
qftest-x.y.z under QF-Test's root directory. This
will take you through the same setup steps as
qftest-x.y.z.exe, except that no files will be
extracted. If you later want to uninstall QF-Test, you'll have to remove
its files by hand after running the uninstaller.
Note: Make sure that you select QF-Test's root
directory as the target directory for the setup.
When finished, the setup program will offer to configure the
Java program for QF-Test as well as the default language. To
find out more about the installation process, refer to the
installation section in QF-Test's user manual under the directory
qftest-x.y.z/doc/manual.
Unix installation
First select a convenient directory that will hold this release of
QF-Test as well as future updates. Common choices are
/opt or /usr/local. Make sure you have
write access to this directory and change to it. When upgrading to
a new QF-Test version, use the same directory again.
Unpack either the .zip archive with unzip
qftest-x.y.z.zip or the .tar.gz archive
with tar xfzv qftest-x.y.z.tar.gz. This will
create a directory named qftest. We will refer to this
directory as the main or root directory of QF-Test. When the qftest
product family grows, this directory will become the home for other
products as well.
After unpacking a QF-Test archive for the first time, QF-Test's
root directory will hold only the version-specific subdirectory
qftest-x.y.z. When upgrading, a new subdirectory
for the current version will be added.
To finish the installation, change to the specific directory for the
current QF-Test version with cd
qftest/qftest-x.y.z and run one of the two setup scripts
provided. setup.sh is a plain Bourne shell script while
setup.ksh is written for the Korn shell. On Solaris you
must run ./setup.ksh. On other Unix systems both scripts
should work equally well but the Bourne shell version
./setup.sh is preferred.
After installing QF-Test, make sure to read the user
manual and the tutorial, both of which are available in HTML
and PDF versions under the directory qftest-x.y.z/doc.
The License file
Place the license file in QF-Test's root directory. The file is the same
for all operating systems, make sure it is named license
with no extension. Some mail clients try to guess the file type and
add an extension on their own. When upgrading to a new version you can
simply keep the license file provided that it is valid for the new
version.
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