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Mouse Events Explained - Web

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.

06. May 2019, Plamen Vesselinov

Disabled node

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

03. May 2019, Yann Spöri

“license”, “license.new”, “license.txt”, “license.dat”, “license.old”, “license.server” … Who’s gonna know about that?

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 …

24. April 2019, Mike Schmidt

Writing your own checkers

While testing an application, one of the most important steps is to verify that the actual state of the application is correct.

16. April 2019, Yann Spöri

If you want to work in Germany, come to us

QFS (Quality First Software GmbH) is one of the best employers of the ITC industry in Germany and also in Bavaria. We are located in Leipzig and in Geretsried (that’s between Munich and the Alps at the Isar river) and have won the Great Place to Work award already two times now.

09. April 2019, Martina Schmid

Accessing sub-items of GUI components

In most cases we are dealing with more or less straight-forward GUI components,such as buttons and text fields. Nevertheless we often have to deal with morecomplex GUI components like trees, tables and lists too. These GUI components have sub-items.

01. April 2019, Yann Spöri

Password encryption

Sensitive information like passwords should be treated with care. However often tests need to fill out a login form and thus these tests require to know the password.

05. March 2019, Yann Spöri

Creating custom HTML/XML/Junit reports

Via the run-log QF-Test provides a detailed log about the actions it executed during a test run. The overall results of this run-log can be summarized in other reports like the HTML/XML/Junit report.

28. February 2019, Yann Spöri

How to create procedure calls

Procedures (also called function or subroutine) may be used in order to solve often (re-)occurring challenges.

22. February 2019, Yann Spöri

Capture & Replay

Even in early stages of development Capture & Replay offers a easy way to create tests. An early start of such regression tests and the assignment of unique names / IDs are the most important bases for efficient (due to stable recognition) test automation.

18. February 2019, Yann Spöri

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