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The main focus of this release is on updates for Firefox versions 26 and 27 and ZK version 7 as well as synchronization of events with AJAX HTTP requests for additional toolkits.

There is a late-year qualification option for QF-Test at the date above. It pays off as a current participant stated: “Thanks to the very competent training session we are now prepared for a speedy start with QF-Test.” Boris Basic, LT Test Service Center, Suva, Luzern, Switzerland Details

The fifth World Quality Report published September 2013 by Capgemini, Sogeti and HP reveals that application Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) has become increasingly important to organizations. While in 2012 about 18 percent of the total IT budget was spent on average on QA, the percentage has grown to up to a quarter of the budget in 2013. German businesses are still at the forefront of quality maturity. The report further indicates that increasing complexity of test-architectures and their handling still pose difficulties.Details

We are pleased to share the following great statement from the Münchener Verein Insurance Group: “With QF-Test we made a fresh start after aiming to improve the cost-benefit ratio, especially in the support area of tool vendors. After two years of intensive use, QF-Test and the outstanding support from QFS have more than confirmed this decision.”

This release introduces support for the AJAX toolkit ICEfaces, adds support for Firefox versions 24 and 25 and further improves Java WebStart startup.

This maintenance release improves handling of Java WebStart and applets after the latest Java security fixes from Oracle and comes with updated support for Eclipse / SWT 4.3 “Kepler”, Firefox 22 and 23 and Testlink 1.9.7.

The highlight of this release is newly added support for the AJAX toolkits PrimeFaces and ZK, complemented by updates for RAP 2 and Vaadin 7, version updates for Firefox 21 and 22 as well as for the upcoming Eclipse / SWT 4.3 “Kepler”

This “dot-zero” release QF-Test version 3.5.0 completes the main feature set of QF-Test version 3.5 and the parallel release of version 3.4.14 marks the end of the release cycle for QF-Test 3.4.Both versions add support for Firefox 20 and Eclipse / SWT 4.2.2/3.8.2 and work around a bug in recent JREs that could cause batch execution to simply stop in the middle of a test.

QFS presented itself and the latest version of QF-Test at OOP 2013 in Munich.Details

Support was added for Firefox version 19 and updated for Firefox version 18 after an incompatible change. Interaction with Internet explorer 10 was improved and the project concept in QF-Test 3.5M3 now includes support for handling sub-projects.

Both versions come with Eclipse support updated to versions 4.2.1 and 3.8.1, Firefox support up to version 18 and improved handling of Java WebStart.

The main new features of this medium upgrade to QF-Test version 3.5

This version fixes applet support for the latest security updates of Java 1.6 and 1.7. Firefox support now includes version 17.

QMetry, a premier test management platform provider, is a new QFS partner. The integration of QF-Test with QMetry, available through the cloud or on-premise, helps QA practitioners combine test automation with manual testing through a common interface and enables them to view and assimilate results through a centralized dashboard and other insightful results.Press

This version adds support for the coming Firefox versions 15 and 16 and improves the IO performance for test suites located on slow file systems.

This version complements the release of Eclipse “Juno” with SWT versions 3.8 and 4.2. It also includes support for Firefox version 14 and fixes several bugs in the browser wrapper of QF-Test, including crashes and a significant memory leak.