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GUI Test Automation – Benefits & Challenges
Read moreTo keep pace with the ever-increasing demand for higher software quality, full end-to-end testing of software products has become a common practice. By exercising the application via the graphical user interface (GUI), testers assume the position of the user which yields a lot of benefits. For example, GUI tests...
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Testing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Read moreWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) offer a wide range of recommendations for making web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a broader group of people with disabilities and, in general, improves usability for all users. WCAG success criteria are written as testable statements...
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Leveraging Python Packages For Better UI Testing
Read morePython is a very popular language, and for good reason. A wealth of production-quality packages for performing all kinds of tasks is freely available on the Internet. But did you know that all this power is readily available in Squish tests, too? This article explains how to extend the...
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Using Squish for Windows and Image-Based Object Lookup for Automation via VNC
Read moreIf you are unable to install Squish on the device you want to test, and you are using a GUI toolkit not supported by Squish so that using the Built-In Hook is not an option, you might still be able to test your application using Squish for Windows and...
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Identifying Poor Object Names – And How To Improve Them
Read moreA stable method to address GUI controls is crucial for a maintainable test project. But how does Squish go about generating object names? What makes a good object name? How can you identify poor object names? How can you configure Squish to generate (or reuse) better names? We will...
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froglogic Included in Gartner’s Master Shift-Left Testing and Increase Feedback to Improve Code Quality Report
Read morefroglogic, with its code coverage analysis tool Coco, was included in the Gartner September 2018 report “Master Shift-Left Testing and Increase Feedback to Improve Code Quality” as a vendor for code analysis tools with a focus on code maintainability and reliability. Gartner states in this report: “Poorly written and...
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View Squish Test results of merge requests in GitLab
Read moreIntroduction It’s very important to make automated GUI tests a part of a Continuous Integration (CI) process. Squish offers add-ons for many popular CI tools like Jenkins, Bamboo and TeamCity. The full list is here. If your tool is not on the list, it can be still integrated as...
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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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froglogic Recognized as a Sample Vendor in Gartner’s 2018 Hype Cycle for Mobile Apps and Multiexperience Development for Mobile App Testing and DevOps Tools
Read moreTo help software developers meet their goals of shorter release cycles and continuous delivery, the need to test software on a wide range of devices demands a high level of automation. Gartner recently published the two August 2018 reports, Hype Cycle for Application Development and Delivery, 2018 and Hype...
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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...
