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External Resources for BDD Through Data Tables
Read moreYou can use so-called data tables to execute a specific Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) GUI test scenario in a data-driven way. Create tables to define test data and use this data to drive your test. Since Squish 6.5.0, it is possible to refer an external file for such data. Data...
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Monitoring long-running tests by intermediary logging of results
Read moreMotivation The set of tests being run on an application tends to grow as more features are added, or more bugs are fixed. This comes at the cost of execution times: for example, a test suite that took 30 min could now take 2 hours. Since normal logging info/test results...
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Lesser known tips on BDD testing using Squish
Read moreBehavior-Driven Development (BDD) is an extension of the Test-Driven Development approach which puts the definition of acceptance criteria at the beginning of the development process as opposed to writing tests after the software has been developed. With possible cycles of code changes done after testing. Behavior Driven Tests are...
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Join us for Squish Days Europe 2018
Read moreUpcoming: Squish Days Europe 2019 Join froglogic for two days of test automation at this year’s users conference in Munich. Check out the following page for more info and a link to register. Past events: Squish Day Amsterdam Date & Time: March 27, 2018 | 09:30 – 16:00 Location:...
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Broadcasting test steps to multiple target systems
Read moreCreating tests for projects which target several different platforms at once can be quite challenging, even if the different versions of tested software and devices have the “same” GUI. I will describe an approach to conveniently tackle such scenarios. Using this approach, test steps are automatically broadcast to each...
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Documentation Screenshots: Using GUI Test Automation Tool Squish Creatively
Read morePrimarily, Squish is a tool to automate GUI tests. However, given the ability to automatically interact with an application, there is a whole lot more we can do with Squish. For example keeping documentation screenshots in the user’s manual up to date has proven to be an annoying and...
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BDD Test Cases in Squish: Clean Up After Your Scenarios!
Read moreSquish allows creating functional tests for user interfaces in a behaviour-driven (BDD) style, enabling the tester to concentrate on what the user does (“enter user name, confirm login dialog”) instead of how it is done (“enter this, click there”). Leveraging the scripting languages supported, a very elegant scheme for…
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Approaches to creating BDD Scenarios
Read moreBehavior Driven Development uses conversations around concrete examples of system behavior to get a common understanding of features that are going to be implemented. This is the heart of BDD, as the quality of those examples affects the whole development process. How to organize this conversation in practice? There...
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We met Squish users in Poland for “UI Behavior Driven Testing” workshop
Read moreOn Wednesday, 22 February 2017, our Squish experts Tomasz Pawlowski and Jakub Topolski conducted a “Squish in Action: UI Behavior Driven Testing” one-day workshop. We met with 16 participants in the beautiful city of Gdansk (Poland). Shortly after 9am we started with a decent theoretical introduction to Behavior Driven...
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froglogic Delivers Squish Tool Suite for Automated Testing of Embedded Qt GUIs and HMIs
Read moreWith the rise of modern user interfaces (HMIs) in the embedded industries, new methods to automate the GUI tests of embedded devices are required to develop and ship quality products. froglogic, the innovative firm behind the cross-platform and cross-technology GUI test automation tool Squish and the cross-platform code coverage...
