We want to help students in writing their software testing thesis, we decided to start a reference list for relevant testing topics.

Continuous Integration Systems (CI-Systems) support the teams at their steady work on the various sub-steps of the software development process. The main objective being the improvement of software quality.

There‘s no way around using variables if a test-suite has to to be flexible, reusable, and elegant. But where are variables set? Which value of the variable is used if I defined multiple ones at different positions? And how can I find out? This article aims to answer these questions.

If you are working with QF-Test scripting nodes, no matter whether you prefer Jython, Groovy or JavaScript, you will come across the QF module sooner or later. This module, accessible in all script nodes and script terminals via the variable qf, holds a bunch of helper methods designed to make the life of a script programmer easier.

You are working with QF-Test and something doesn't work as expected? Then you can (as usually) search the Internet or do research at Stackoverflow... A faster way is going on our channels ...

Some days ago I had the pleasure to visit a Meetup Venue here in Leipzig, Germany. The topic was very interesting - "Experience with the introduction of Test Automation". Many of the participants consider Web GUI Testing very fragile and cumbersome to keep in "Tests OK" status that's why I I decided to write this series with the topic: No coordinates based Events and no Image based checks! QF-Test is smarter than that!

In order to simplify test-suite editing it is possible to assign colored marks to nodes. This feature is especially (but not only) helpful in the context of complex find and replace operations - in this case, the color markers can for example be used to indicate that a node still needs revision or that a node was edited successfully.

QF-Test uses semi hard events as default (based on web ajax toolkit, browser and browser version, OS etc), but not all cases. There are three event types available.

In some cases it is helpful to disable nodes temporarily. Here is a short article how to do this.

Indeed, it is quite confusing if you would take a look how the supposed license files attached to emails are arriving. Although it is actually quite simple …