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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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Day in, day out, our diligent support team answers our customers’ questions. Here are some of their answers about data drivers, error message filtering, and variable defaults.

Running multiple tests at once could improve test execution time a lot (if raw system performance is not a bottleneck) while saving lots of infrastructure overhead because everything can run on one machine.

Sure, a team of testers can handle extensive test projects faster and better than a single person. But some things that may seem simple at first actually can become much more difficult when working in a team.

Quality First Software GmbH is 20 years old. We asked all colleagues to share their first memories with us.

Is FX even still alive? From QFS” point of view, we can answer this question with a clear “yes”: JavaFX is alive and well and has been in use via QF-Test/FX in multiple large projects since 2014.

In the last days, a vulnerability in the popular open source library log4j has been reported, nick-named Log4shell. QF-Test is not (and has not) been vulnerable to this attack, for a number of reasons.

Excel files can be read into QF-Test using a simple procedure call where the procedure qfs.utils.files.readExcelFile must be called.

QF-Test natively supports testing websites with Chrome, Firefox, Edge, some others and even good old Internet Explorer. But there are plenty of other, lesser-known browsers that you might still want to run your tests with, such as Chromium, Brave, Iron, Vivaldi and Yandex.

The TestRunListener interface can be used to execute additional actions before or after the execution of each node or in the case of any exception / error. This actions can (for example) be used for testdocumentation or error analysis. In the following some TestRunListeners are introduced (Jython server scripts).