New version of manual and automated software quality suite addresses industries' need for enhanced business agility.
Original Software, has announced the release of its latest version of TestDrive, "the only agile test automation solution in the marketplace," according to the company, and TestDrive-Assist, a "dynamic manual testing solution."
V7 is in direct response to an independent study undertaken earlier this year that revealed that the need for enhanced business agility is the highest rated market driver for improving software quality, the company says. With more complexity in IT projects, and a need to respond faster to changing markets, development and QA teams have had to adapt the way they work. Original Software says it is addressing the need for a more dynamic way of working and for agile test automation.
“Users have had a limited choice of agile test automation tools, which often seem rigid and inflexible to use in such a fast-moving development environment,” says Colin Armitage, CEO at Original Software. “The truth of the matter is that traditional test tools…struggle to work in an agile environment. These kinds of tools only really suit application testing that involves long development cycles and strict change management regulations. Otherwise they simply won't work,” says Armitage.
TestDrive-Assist and TestDrive are fully integrated solutions that allow companies to manage the journey to automation in a seamless and painless manner. TestDrive-Assist, discreetly captures tests while they are performed, including what is happening within the application. It also provides an audit trail and clear information for reproducing bugs. Its ability to automatically migrate these tests to an automated test script in TestDrive is a unique and powerful enabler for customers practicing agile or iterative development techniques, the company says. The functionality allows customers to test earlier, in bite-sized pieces, and by the end of the scrum or iteration, these scripts form the foundation of a future automated test.
V7 continues with Original Software's vision of continued innovation for the testing community and incorporates a number of new benefits and features:
- Full support for the Adobe Flex framework, enabling the productive testing of web applications built using Flex.
- Intelligent test annotation whereby the automated test uses the same input descriptions that a user would see on the screen, enabling greater tolerance of application changes.
- One click conversion of manual tests to automated test scripts.
- Use of a single script over multiple technologies, meaning that a Firefox script could be run over Internet Explorer
A recent Ovum report stated: “TestDrive-Assist provides you with a rich environment for manual testing, but the bigger payback is how it facilitates adoption of full automation. Uniquely for any of the guided manual test execution products that we know of, Original can automatically convert a manual TestDrive-Assist test into a fully automated TestDrive test that can be repeated. Overall this is a low risk, low cost way of progressively adopting test automation. It fits in with classic waterfall processes, and it can also be used in agile processes more easily than other functional test automation suites.”
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