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Webswing and QFS: A Powerful Alliance for Java Application Migration

A blog post from our partner Webswing. Explore the potential of this transformative collaboration and see how your organization can benefit from migrating Java applications to the web with Webswing and QF-Test.

Max Melzer Max Melzer
JavaFX – More alive than ever

A few years ago I provocatively asked: “Is FX even still alive?” Today my answer would be: “More alive than ever”, and that is not a given after the Covid years.

Gregor Schmid Gregor Schmid
Performance-Comparison of VMs and Docker containers

A scientific analysis of the execution speed of QF-Test tests clearly shows that dockerised environments with headless browsers have the advantage. Our experiments show performance gains of up to 300% compared to a conventional VM.

Marcel Schmied Marcel Schmied
How Webswing is revolutionizing the Migration of Java desktop applications to the web

The Webswing Migration Framework is an innovative way to migrate the UI of legacy Java applications to native web components while keeping the underlying business logic unchanged. And QF-Test is along for the ride as the premier Webswing testing solution.

Max Melzer Max Melzer
How mgm Advances Test Automation with QF-Test

Our parent company mgm technology partners has published a blog post about how they have been using QF-Test to supercharge their test automation efforts over the last 10 years.

Max Melzer Max Melzer
Revolutionizing Test Automation with AI: Insights from TACON 2023

The Test Automation Conference (TACON) 2023 was an exploration of AI’s transformative potential in the domain of software test automation.

Lilia Gargouri Lilia Gargouri
Mitigation of the WebP 0-day vulnerability CVE-2023-4863 in QF-Test

Google has disclosed a critical vulnerability in an image library that is also included in some versions of QF-Test. Here are steps you can take to protect yourself.

Max Melzer Max Melzer
Annotating screenshots with QF-Test

For many people a picture is worth a thousand words. That’s why, in this article, we will show how to add various annotations to screenshots using QF-Test.

Yann Spöri Yann Spöri
I received a license upgrade. What now?

I have a file called “license.new”. Why am I getting the error message “Invalid license”?

Mike Schmidt Mike Schmidt
Integrating QF-Test with TeamCity in three easy steps

QF-Test can be integrated with common CI tools like Jenkins and TeamCity. In this post, we demonstrate how to integrate QF-Test into TeamCity CI in three easy steps

Karlheinz Kellerer Karlheinz Kellerer
Switching languages in QF-Test

QF-Test is multi-lingual – and many of our users are, too. In this post we explain how you can control the interface language of QF-Test.

Max Melzer Max Melzer
SmartID – The next generation of component recognition

We are always working on improving component recognition in QF-Test. With QF-Test 6.0 we introduced a completely new paradigm: SmartID

Max Melzer Max Melzer
My internship at QFS: Sorting and comparing XML files (and other things)

How I used SAX, multi-threading, and token-based parsing to develop a (much!) faster XML comparison library.

Sarah Wiegel Sarah Wiegel
QF-Test license information explained

The version number of QF-Test and in the license file – How are they related?

Mike Schmidt Mike Schmidt
From mgm’s coffee kitchen to test automation with QF-Test

Lilia Gargouri is head of the mgm Quality Team together with Martin Varendorff. In this interview, she describes for us how she found her way to QF-Test, what’s important to her in test automation, and about her hopes for the closer cooperation between our companies in the future.

Thomas Max Thomas Max
Why Can’t Developers and Testers Just Get Along?

The relationship between software testers and software developers can fraught with tension. But if everyone is free to bring their skills and their focus to the table, together, we can build great software.

Max Melzer Max Melzer
Our kicker – once again, one of the most important “employees”

On Wednesday the 27th of April 2022 at the career fair in Bad Tölz QFS was represented as an exhibitor with Yann Spöri, Martina Schmid and the aforementioned company kicker.

Martina Schmid Martina Schmid
Testing Content Security Policy (CSP) protected web pages with Firefox

Strong CSP rules make it more difficult to test them with Firefox from version 99 on.

Pascal Bihler Pascal Bihler
The Blockchain Icon Mode – QF-Test out of blocks

Today on first april we finally succeeded in a promising experiment for the automatic redesign of QF-Test – how useful the blockchain technology can be.

Yann Spöri Yann Spöri
Welcome to JavaLand 2022

In March of 2022, part of our development team visited the JavaLand conference. Here are some impressions from the event.

Max Melzer Max Melzer

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