Posts Tagged 'Test Automation'

TestProject Discontinued - Need Alternatives?

January 9, 2023

Recently it was announced that the free test automation tool - TestProject - has been discontinued and will be end of life on March 31, 2023. Beginning November 16, 2022, the creation of new TestProject accounts will be disabled and on March 31, 2023, all previously existing TestProject accounts will be deactivated and access to the platform will be revoked. If you are looking for alternatives to TestProject, we've created a handy list of automated testing tools to make this decision easier.

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Web Components Support in Rapise 7.4

October 25, 2022

As you may remember, we recently introduced support for Shadow DOM in Rapise 7.3. Now with the release of Rapise 7.4 we take the Shadow DOM support to the next level and also enable support for another technology from the Web Components suite: HTML Templates; to be more specific - for SLOT element. Let’s deep dive into the details of Web Components as well as the new SLOT element, and how Rapise supports them for automated web testing.

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Webinar Recap: Top Ten Tips for Tackling Test Automation

October 20, 2022

On October 11, 2022, Inflectra and Checkpoint Technologies co-hosted the webinar: Top Ten Tips for Tackling Test Automation. In this webinar, Adam Sandman (Inflectra) and Bob Crews (Checkpoint Technologies) explored the challenges surrounding test automation and offered their tips to overcoming them.  

If you missed the webinar, we have a full recap below. 

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Software Testing Automation Frameworks & More

September 26, 2022

You probably understand the importance of test automation, but it's also important to know what tests should be automated. Learn about all this & more!

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When Microsoft Dynamics 365 Updates, Rapise Has You Covered!

September 1, 2021

One of the biggest challenges with test automation is the maintenance of the tests. This is especially true when you automating complex third-party packaged SaaS applications that are updated monthly by the vendors. For example, when you are testing ERP or CRM applications such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, Salesforce, SAP or Oracle, you may have lots of customizations that you need to test. However the base product will be updated every month by the vendor so your automated tests are at the mercy of breaking changes in the core system.

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Webinar Recap: Data-Driven Testing | Test Automation Webinars

December 19, 2019

On December 18, 2019 Inflectra and Denis Markovtsev hosted a live webinar, called:Data-Driven TestingThis is the 5th and last webinar in the Tier 2 Certificate series called: Planet Test Automation: First Steps

If you missed the webinar, we are happy to share this recap👇 with you!

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Webinar Recap: Automating MOBILE UI Testing

November 25, 2019

On November 20, 2019 Inflectra hosted the 3rd live webinar: Automating Mobile UI Testing from the Tier 2 Certification series called: Planet Test Automation: First Steps

If you missed the webinar, we are happy to share this recap👇 with you!

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Webinar Recap: Automating Web UI Testing

October 18, 2019

On October 16, 2019 Inflectra hosted the 1st live webinar: Automating Web UI Testing from the Tier 2 Certification series called: Planet Test Automation: First Steps

If you missed the webinar, here is a recap👇 ~ enjoy!

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FAQs - Planet Test Automation: First Steps - Inflectra's Webinar Series

October 3, 2019

Inflectra is hosting Planet Test Automation: First Steps  – a Level 2 webinar series aimed at helping software testers transition into test automation. The series participants are eligible to receive a Certificate of Completion after this Level II series is completed. 

If you are interested in learning more about getting Inflectra’s Test Automation 2 Certificate, feel free to check out our Frequently Asked Questions below: 

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Webinar Series: Planet Test Automation: First Steps

October 3, 2019

On October 16, 2019 Inflectra will launch a follow-on test automation webinar series called: Planet Test Automation: First Steps. This step 2 webinar series builds on the earlier test automation series - Test Automation, Demystified and aims to strengthen participants' grasp of the major test automation activities. 

Details are inside!

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Spotlight on Rapise 6.2 - Selenium and Appium Auto Reconnect

September 3, 2019

The latest version of Rapise, our powerful and easy to use test automation tool comes with some key usability enhancements that make testing mobile native applications and mobile web applications even easier. It lets you start recording tests from the point they last failed without having to start from the beginning, a huge time saver.

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Spotlight on Rapise 6.2 - Machine Learning & Self-healing Web Testing

August 29, 2019

We're very excited about the next version of our Rapise test automation system. The new version leverages research done by the Inflectra artificial intelligence and machine learning unit to introduce self-healing web testing and self-healing web locators to take the flakiness and manual effort associated with automating web testing.

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Webinar #Recap: AI in Test Automation

August 8, 2019

We have now completed our webinar series called: Test Automation, Demystified with a live webinar on AI in Test Automation. 

If you missed the webinar, here is a recap of the most important take-aways:

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Webinar #Recap: Codeless Test Automation

July 11, 2019

On July 10, 2019 Inflectra hosted the 5th live webinar: Codeless Test Automation, from the series called: Test Automation, Demystified.

If you missed the webinar, here is a recap of the most important take-aways:

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Webinar #Recap: Friends and Foes of Software Test Automation

June 26, 2019

We have recently hosted our 4th live webinar: Friends and Foes of Software Test Automation, from the series called: Test Automation, DemystifiedThe goal of series is to build the participants’ basic understanding, and a skill set to start using test automation in their work.

We are sharing the most important take-aways from the webinar.

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Webinar #Recap: Choosing A Test Automation Tool: 8 Features That Matter

June 17, 2019

Inflectra recently hosted the 3rd live webinar: Choosing A Test Automation Tool: 8 Features That Matter, from the series called: Test Automation, DemystifiedThe goal of series is to build the participants’ basic understanding, and a skill set to start using test automation in their work.

We are sharing the most important take-aways from the webinar.

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Webinar #Recap: Is Application Ready for Test Automation?

June 5, 2019

Inflectra recently hosted a webinar called: Is Application Ready for Test Automation?as part of webinar series called: Test Automation, DemystifiedThe goal of series is to build the participants’ basic understanding, and a skill set to start using test automation in their work.

We are sharing the most important take-aways from the webinar.

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Webinar #Recap: From Manual to Automated Software Testing

May 17, 2019

On May 15, Inflectra hosted a webinar: From Manual to Automated Software Testing, as part of webinar series called: Test Automation, Demystified. The goal of series is to build the participants’ basic understanding, and a skill set to start using test automation in their work.

If you missed the webinar, we understand - and are happy to share with you the most important take-aways.

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Inflectra Webinar Series: Test Automation, Demystified

April 26, 2019

On May 15, 2019 Inflectra will launch a webinar series called: Test Automation, Demystified. This introductory seven (7) part webinar series is intended as a foundation helping participants bridge the gap between manual testing and test automation. The overarching goal of this Level 1 Test Automation Certificate webinar series is to build the participants’ basic understanding, and a skill set to start using test automation in their work.

 

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FAQs - Test Automation, Demystified – Inflectra's Webinar Series

April 26, 2019

Inflectra is hosting Test Automation, Demystified – a webinar series for those who wish to transition from manual testing to test automation. The series participants are eligible to receive a Certificate of Completion after the series is completed. 

If you are interested in learning more about getting Inflectra’s Test Automation Certificate, feel free to check out our Frequently Asked Questions below: 

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Webinar #Recap: Introduction To Powerful New Rapise 6.0

April 24, 2019

On April 11, 2019 as part of the official release launch, Inflectra hosted a live webinar on the improved Rapise 6.0The webinar highlighted the major changes and new features added to inflectra's software test automation platform.

If you missed the webinar, please enjoy this recap, complete with a video recording.

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Spotlight on Rapise 6.0: UI Redesign, Dynamics Unified Client and SAP Fiori

February 26, 2019

Our automation group is wrapping up the final testing and documentation for our next major release of Rapise, our powerful and easy to use codeless test automation tool. With the new 6.0 version getting ready for release in the next couple of weeks, we thought it would be useful to highlight some of the major changes and new features you can expect with the new version.

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Webinar Recap: Codeless Test Automation - Myth or Magic?

February 6, 2019

On January 31, 2019 Inflectra hosted a test automation-related webinar called: Codeless Test Automation - Myth or Magic? 

During the webinar, Adam Sandman, Inflectra's Technical Director, showcased the top 10 features a competitive codeless test automation tools should include in 2019.

If you were unable to attend this webinar, we have a recording for you.

Feel free to check it out below.

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10 Features Every Codeless Test Automation Tool Should Offer

December 3, 2018

There's a resurgence of codeless test automation tools in the market, and members of the testing community are understandably skeptical of the promises of hassle-free, easy to maintain testing. This article describes the benefits that codeless test automation tools provide over having your programmers write automation code by hand, and outlines how Rapise meets the test laid down by experts in the industry of the ten key features that such a tool needs to have to be useful.

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How to Create a Data-Driven End-to-End Sales Order Test for Microsoft Dynamics NAV using Rapise

November 19, 2018

Dynamics NAV is all about Purchase and Sales orders. Therefore many end-to-end testing scenarios involve creation of an order at a certain step. Sales Order, for example, requires to fill in customer name and order lines. If there is a need to use different data in different testing scenarios then there is a requirement to make the Sales Order test data-driven. The enclosed video explains how to do just that using Rapise

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Recording of MS Dynamics AX & Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with Rapise

November 1, 2018

Rapise is the most powerful and complete software testing tool on the market for testing the Microsoft Dynamics family of applications. In addition, many of our customers are using Rapise to perform Robotic Process Automation (RPA) of Dynamics applications to automate common business processes and tasks. We recently had a webinar that demonstrated the best practices and tips and tricks for testing and/or automating Microsoft Dynamics AX. Don't worry if you missed the webinar, we have a recording available.

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Lessons Learned from Using Rapise to Develop/Test Rapise

September 10, 2018

If you remember our blog post - The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes - then you'll remember that we lamented that it's often hard to practice what you preach when it comes to yourself, because you are so busy delivering first for customers! Well, as a prequel to that, we realized that it was worth mentioning how ended up using Rapise to debug issues in Rapise itself!

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How to Wreck Your UI Test Automation Project - A Cheat Sheet

September 4, 2018

A while back we wrote about how to make a UI test automation project a nightmare, well in the second part of this blog series, we explore some ways you can wreck and derail an automation project. Hopefully, you will do the opposite and become a test automation hero!

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The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes

August 22, 2018

One of the most famous expressions is that the people who are in the business of a providing a particular service are so focused on delivering for their customers, that they don't practice what they preach for themselves. For example, the cobbler who repairs shoes, has no time to fix those of his family. However that analogy is unfortunately often the same when you look at software...

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Introducing the Web UI Test Automation Playground

August 7, 2018

We have all seen slick demos of automated testing tools and frameworks. They show how you can quickly automate a nice, well constructed login page. The test records easily, the playback is seamless and it all looks so easy and painless. Then you purchase the tool and when it makes first contact with a real application, it looks as seamless as a Rube Goldberg machine!

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Recording: Selenium Page Object vs Object Repository - Inflectra Webinar

July 23, 2018

We recently had a webinar that demonstrated the similarities and differences between Selenium Page Object vs Rapise Object Repository. Don't worry if you missed the webinar, we have a recording available.

This webinar was first presented at DevGeekWeek 2018 by Inflectra's senior software engineer - Alexey Grinevich.

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Using REST & UI Testing To Test An Ajax Web Application - Webinar Recording

July 20, 2018

We are please to share with you the recording of our recent webinar on Using REST & UI Testing To Test An Ajax Web Application. 

The webinar is based on a talk by Adam Sandman, first presented at STPCon Spring 2018. 

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Webinar Recap: Addressing The Challenges Of Web UI Test Automation Using Rapise

July 16, 2018

Thank you for joining our July 5th webinar on Addressing The Challenges Of Web UI Test Automation Using Rapise. The webinar recording and slides are offered below for those who had to miss it. 

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How Rapise Makes Testing Dynamics 365 Easy as Pie

June 4, 2018

Now we all know that automated testing can be a real pain sometimes. Imagine you have this big, complex web application with lots of dynamic elements, IFRAMEs, hidden layers, and other impediments to automation. Writing test automation scripts by hand with Selenium would be a Herculean task. So instead, see how we have built intelligence into Rapise to make testing such an application easy as pie.

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Recording of UI Test Automation for a Dynamics 365 AppSource App with Rapise

May 2, 2018

The webinar demonstrates how to create a framework for automated end to end (E2E) testing of a third-party application for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform. It is a great example of how you can extend the functionality of Rapise yourself to test custom controls (grid, tables, treeviews, etc.) more easily.

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9 Easy Steps to Start Automating Software Testing

May 1, 2018

Innovations in technology have become synonymous with business growth and development. Regardless of whether a company specializes in software or application development, all businesses now have some interaction with software or application testing.

Software or application testing involves executing a program or app to find bugs or glitches. Whether creating a new responsive website, building a new mobile application, or developing a new software component, the system must be tested. The rate of software development, in general, and testing in particular, is rising for many enterprises, which has increased the need for more automated software testing. Those pre-scripted software tests can come in handy when a lot of software or applications need testing. Here are nine ways businesses can start automating software testing.

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Recording of Testing Salesforce Lightning with Rapise Webinar

February 14, 2018

Rapise is the most powerful and easy to use software testing tool on the market for testing Salesforce.com. We have many customers and partners using Rapise to streamline their testing of Salesforce.com, cutting down the time to test every new patch, update, or customization. We recently had a webinar that demonstrated the best practices and tips and tricks for testing Salesforce's new Lightning Edition. Don't worry if you missed the webinar, we have a recording available.

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Recording of Testing Dynamics NAV with Rapise Webinar

January 25, 2018

Rapise is the most powerful and easy to use software testing tool on the market for testing Microsoft Dynamics NAV. We have many customers and partners using Rapise to streamline their testing of Dynamics products, cutting down the time to test every new patch, update, or customization. We recently had a webinar that demonstrated the best practices and tips and tricks for testing Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Don't worry if you missed the webinar, we have a recording available.

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How to Make UI Test Automation a Nightmare - A Developer's Guide

December 19, 2017

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
― Richard Feynman

There are many ways in which you can make the lives of test automation teams harder. If you are a developer or system architect and one of testers is the kind of guy you dislike, this article is for you. Enlightened by the sacred knowledge contained in this short article you will learn how to make UI of any application nearly untestable.

Alternatively, if you are a kinder soul and respect others' hard work, you may consider topics presented herewith as anti-patterns.

So, let's go.

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Recording of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM / 365 for Sales Webinar

December 19, 2017

Rapise is the most powerful and easy to use software testing tool on the market for testing Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales. We have many customers and partners using Rapise to streamline their testing of Dynamics products, cutting down the time to test every new patch, update, or customization. We recently had a webinar that demonstrated the best practices and tips and tricks for testing Dynamics CRM and Dynamics 365. Don't worry if you missed the webinar, we have a recording available.

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Recording of Testing Salesforce.com with Rapise Webinar

December 1, 2017

Rapise is the most powerful and easy to use software testing tool on the market for testing Salesforce.com. We have many customers and partners using Rapise to streamline their testing of Salesforce.com, cutting down the time to test every new patch, update, or customization. We recently had a webinar that demonstrated the best practices and tips and tricks for testing Salesforce.com. Don't worry if you missed the webinar, we have a recording available.

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Recording of Testing Dynamics AX 2012 with Rapise Webinar

November 28, 2017

Rapise is the most powerful and easy to use software testing tool on the market for testing Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. We have many customers and partners using Rapise to streamline their testing of Dynamics AX, cutting down the time to test every new patch, update, or customization. We recently had a webinar that demonstrated the best practices and tips and tricks for testing Dynamics AX. Don't worry if you missed the webinar, we have a recording available.

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Spotlight on Rapise 5.3: Testing Dynamics NAV Applications

September 5, 2017

As you may know, one of the core strengths of Rapise is its support for testing Microsoft Dynamics applications. Rapise offers the best automated testing solution on the market for Microsoft Dynamics AX, CRM and 365. However that is not sufficient for us, after several customer requests, we are pleased to announce that the next version of Rapise due for release in a couple of weeks will also include built-in out of the box support for MS Dynamics NAV as well.

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The Top 3 Tools In Automated UI Testing for Dynamics AX

August 7, 2017

Ever wonder which automated UI testing software to use for Dynamics AX ?

We have a review that compares the three top tools on the market: Visual Studio Coded UI, Rapise and AXeptance. Read how each of them fair when tested against the following five criteria:

  1. functionality
  2. ease of use & maintenance
  3. date-driven testing
  4. reliability
  5. speed
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Rapise 5.2 Now Available

August 1, 2017

We have big news - Rapise 5.2 is Now Released! Our automation development team has been working to add the remaining features needed for full scriptless test automation using Rapise Visual Language (RVL) and now it is here!

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Expanding the Rapise Universe with Elastic Search and Google Drive

July 28, 2017

Software products are not islands, the value of a product is how well it works with the surrounding ecosystem of other technologies, frameworks and platforms. In this article we highlight some of the recent work by Team Inflectra to integrate our Rapise test automation tool with ElasticSearch and also demonstrating how it can be used to automate a combination of web and desktop UIs to drag and drop files from Windows Explorer to Google Drive.

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Spotlight on Rapise 5.2: Data Driven Testing

July 17, 2017

We are busy bees this summer, and one of the most exciting new features of Rapise is the fact that we're adding support for data-driven testing using the new Rapise Visual Language (RVL) with the introduction of Maps and Loops to the new scriptless language.

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#TechTuesday: Resilient UI Test Automation for Web Applications

June 20, 2017

Web applications are a perfect example of a rapidly moving target for UI test automation tools. Agile and DevOps drive small changes and frequent releases. This leads to certain challenges in QA field. How to create tests that survive after small UI changes? How to create tests that produce same results if ran 10 times in a row on an unmodified application? How to create tests that check exactly those features they were designed to check?

Answers to these questions are not entirely simple. Test automation is still an art.

In this blog we try to figure out what every test automation engineer can do to find the right answers. First I'll give a few examples that illustrate common challenges in Web UI test automation.

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#TechTuesday: Automated Testing of Complex Web UI Components: Behind The Scenes

June 14, 2017

Take any tool for UI test automation and you will notice that they always lack support for some of the UI controls. And I am not talking about trivial ones like buttons and edit boxes, but the one that are custom controls, which are unique and created for specific needs. It can be some sophisticated grid or menu or a fancy tree. A number of such controls in this rapidly evolving world is growing exponentially. So, every UI test automation engineer is challenged by emerging UI frameworks in every project. This is especially true for Web applications.

As a provider of a UI test automation tool - Rapise - we constantly do our best to arm engineers with the most advanced technologies to help them deal with new UI controls.

This article by Danis Markovtsev will showcase a real-life example of this. 

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Code & Data: from Assembler to RVL

June 7, 2017

In this short blog post, our test automation guru - Denis Markovtsev explains the ideas and principles behind the design of Inflectra's new Rapise Visual Language (RVL) introduced in Rapise 5.1. RVL is a spreadsheet-based approach to UI test automation implemented in Rapise to help domain specialists and test analysts, who are not programmers, participate in test automation projects.

 

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Rapise v5.1 - Enhanced REST Web Service Testing

May 22, 2017

We're very excited about the next version of Rapise coming out later this week. It has many enhancements and improvements for testing the web, mobile and desktop applications which we'll be discussing in future blog articles. It also has some nifty new features to make the testing of REST web services even better.

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Rapise v5.1 - Scriptless Automated Testing

April 18, 2017

We're very excited about the next version of Rapise coming out later this month. It has many enhancements and improvements for testing the web, mobile and desktop applications which we'll be discussing, but the biggest new feature is the ability to create scriptless tests, using a familiar Excel-based grid framework for composing automated tests. Unlike some other tools (cough cough HP UFT) this is natively part of Rapise, not some add-on.

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What Everybody Ought to Know about Rapise v5.0

January 9, 2017

In the next week or so we shall be formally releasing the next version of our popular automated testing IDE. In this article we give you a taste of what to expect for both existing customers looking to upgrade and new customers that want to empower their testers with powerful tools to make their job easier.

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Why and How Should I Use Test Automation?

February 26, 2016

The average test plan for a commercial grade application will have between 2,000 and 10,000 test cases. Your test team of five must manually execute and document results for between 400 and 2,000 test cases. And the scheduled release date of your product is fast approaching. No worries; clone your team and work around the clock. Or perhaps there’s a better way... Read More

Spies Like Us - Or How to Use Rapise's Spy Tool for Web Testing

July 9, 2015

One of the features of Rapise, is an integrated Web Spy, also known as a DOM Browser. It's similar to the tools already in the web browsers such as IE, Firefox and Chrome (e.g. Firebug), but unlike using those tools it has lots of nifty features for making web testing easier and also integrates directly into Rapise testing IDE so that you can code against any of the elements visible in the Spy. This article describes how to use the Spy.

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Modifying a Previously Recorded Rapise Test

February 6, 2015

You built your first test. And it works, as planned! Congratulations! Based on that test you submitted a bug and proved your worth and the value of automation! Again congrats. Now development has “fixed” the bug, time to retest. OOPS! The test fails, not due to the bug, but because the flow is wrong. Read More

Rapise - Specialized Object Learning

November 19, 2014

So, lets say that you are a code genius. You understand what is going on under the hood. The developers of your application have shared intimate details, not only of their bar crawl, but of what each object is in the application. What can you do with this knowledge? Read More

Rapise - Learn through Object Selection

September 17, 2014

Rapise has several methods for learning the objects within the application under test. While still easy to learn, this method does not automatically develop a runnable test that will deliver any meaningful results. Herein we will discuss the learning methodology and provide a flow to follow, however we will not have a runnable test in the end as no input or click-stream data will be captured.

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I Believe in Test Automation, Do You?

August 29, 2014

If you grew up in the 1990s you will remember the science fiction program 'The X-Files' where agent Mulder had to convince a skeptical agent Scully that aliens did exist. Well unlike aliens, test automation is not something you have to believe in or not believe in, automation exists and it works.
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How to Choose What to do to Automate Your Test Plan

January 31, 2014

Boil the ocean

eat the elephant

climb the mountain

 

and now - Automate the tests for the application!!

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