Articles and Reviews on Testing Tools

The impact of HPE's sale of its software business is sinking in after it was announced almost a year back.
In the QA domain; the impact is felt by many enterprises who are HPE ALM users.
The two major concerns voiced are the uncertainty of how the toolset will support in future and speed at which it will adapt to their needs in digital transformation era. The need for a future-safe tool set that transcends from manual to automated testing and supports DevOps was never so critical.

We've just released the v4.6 of Katalon Studio, which features a major upgrade to the mobile record and playback feature.
Here are the main features:

• Download Size Reduced
• Record & Playback for Mobile
• Parameterizing Test Objects
• Certificate Settings
• Proxy Settings
• Hotkeys Settings
• Wait time for Angular/jQuery pages
• Location for screenshots
• Start installed Kobiton application from Katalon Studio

Stress testing isn't just for developers. You need to understand the impact each user has on your application stack. Relying on recommendations and capacity planning isn't enough to make educated decisions on hardware and software requirements.

Test Management encompasses anything and everything that we do as testers. Our day-to-day activities include:

Creating and maintaining release /project cycle /component information

Creating and maintaining the test artifacts specific to each release /cycle that we have- requirements, test cases, etc.

Establishing traceability and coverage between the test assets

Test execution support - test suite creation, test execution status capture, etc.

Metric collection/report-graph generation for analysis

Bug tracking/defect management

The above are broadly some of the tasks that involve what we call, the test management process. 

SpiraTeam manages your project's requirements, tests, stories, release plans, iteration plans, tasks and bugs/issues in one environment. Since it’s web based, teams can collaborate in real time and have up to the minute visibility of the project’s status.

Inflectra® is pleased to announce the release of Rapise 5.0, the latest version of its Rapise test automation platform. Rapise is the most comprehensive and powerful automated testing solution on the market. With its latest version, Rapise offers testers a single platform to test web, mobile and desktop applications as well as web service APIs.

Test Set permutations is a great feature when you want to test the same test sets and instances multiple times, for example when you are supporting a large number of platforms, languages or even configurations.

In this case you want to be able to take one or a small number of test sets, and create multiple test sets for each of the different combinations you wish to test.

Inflectra® is pleased to announce the release of SpiraTeam 5.1, the latest version of its award-winning application lifecycle management (ALM) suite.
SpiraTeam 5.1 Released by Inflectra, Enables Effective Program Management
The latest version of SpiraTeam brings together major enhancements in performance and usability along with the ability to break the project paradigm for the first time. With SpiraTeam 5.1, you can take control of even the most complex programs.
SpiraTeam 5.1 provides users with the ability to have complete traceability between items in different projects, the ability to view integrated program backlogs and the ability to quickly search across all items and projects to make associations.

One of the challenges in applying software test automation successfully in your projects is to select a most appropriate automated testing tool or framework.  It is a challenging decision as you have many tools to choose from and a number of requirements to satisfy, and automated testing tools may have hidden problems you don’t see or overlook at the time of making decision. Making the right tool choice is crucial to avoiding problems related to the tool that haunt your project execution.

In selecting a tool, you have a set of selection constraints, which can be classified into hard and soft constraints. Hard constraints are fixed and must be satisfied in any case. These constraints include platforms, executing environments, programming languages, and frameworks used to develop the target application under test (AUT).  Soft constraints can be compromised or partially met. Such constraints include schedule, cost, maintainability, usability, level of programming and technical skills required. As these constraints are adjustable, you find it challenging in balancing among them in order to select the best tool given that most of the tools do not satisfy all of these constraints perfectly.