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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...
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Squish 6.4.1 Maintenance Release
Read moreHamburg, Germany (August 21, 2018) – froglogic GmbH shipped maintenance release Squish GUI Tester 6.4.1 Squish 6.4.1 is a maintenance release containing bug-fixes and small improvements for the IDE, scripting, Object Map handling and UI toolkit support. Please see the release notes for a complete list. Customers and product...
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Automating Java Web Start applications
Read moreThe Squish for Java edition not only supports testing Java Swing/AWT, SWT/Eclipse RCP or JavaFX based applications but also Java Web Start applications. There are two ways to automate an application started via Java Web Start: 1. Start via web browser 2. Start via the tool javaws 1. Start...
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Use XPath in Squish for Web as Alternative to Object Names
Read moreThe object names in Squish are a powerful feature, not only with the ability to look up objects, but also to synchronize on them. In Squish 6.4 this became even more flexible with the introduction of the script-based object map. But there are some situations left where the Squish...
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Convert Text-Based Object Maps to Script-Based Object Maps
Read moreWith Squish 6.4 we introduced script-based object maps, which provide a more powerful way to manage object names. Script-based object maps will enable you to use native script language concepts to organize the object map, to reduce redundancy and to help with dynamic object lookup. In this article I...
