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First Online QF-Test Meetup with users from Switzerland and three QFS team members.

A testimonial by “Mr. QF-Test” who recently started to place a walking pad under his desk so that his work on QF-Test is now done walking and he is so happy with it that he even volunteered to write a blog about it.

This article shows how to perform automated audits by use of Lighthouse and QF-Test e.g., to measure performance or SEO behavior of your website.

QF-Test exists in German and English. You can switch the language in QF-Test. It is easy you just need to know how to change the language settings.

Loading a web page in the browser and working with it may produce various errors. To log those errors you may use the linked test suite.

We are happy to announce the public GIT repository for test suites.

Especially when testing websites, you are now and then faced with the problem of having to parse JSON (=JavaScript Object Notation) strings.  In this blog article, however, the JSON library provided by QF-Test should be described.

One of our colleagues tells about his experiences with Covid-19 and home office here at Quality First Software Gmbh in 2020.

QF-Test it is possible to transform a node into another node type.

Since QF-Test 5.0.0 a new node was added, here you will learn how to use the comment node.

My images are identical, why do my image checks fail?

With multiple opened browser windows, how can I ensure that the correct is used?

This is how it starts every night. I barely have a moment of rest until I’m clicked and checked again. But it’s fun, I’m the website www.qftest.com!

In case QF-Test is unable to identify the corresponding component in the application a ComponentNotFoundException gets thrown. Whenever an exception occurs QF-Test (by default) logs a screenshot.

Now it’s time! Now I can introduce myself to the world. Here I am! Can you see me? Hi! I’m the new website, www.qftest.com!

A very good solution of the combination of web technology and desktop applications is Electron. Almost every user knows or uses Electron apps. Popular apps like Skype, Microsoft Visual Studio Code or Discord are built using the Electron framework.

Packet soup or baking mixture, cook by yourself or bake? Concerning food opinions divide. Pros and cons. QF-Test doesn’t ship convenience food, you have to cook it yourself. But you will be given a variety of spices that will ease your life: the standard library qfs.qft. From a collection of fine salt and pepper to complex pizza spices, the genuine for every meal.

In their recent version of macOS, named “Catalina” (10.15), Apple introduced a feature protecting users from executing malicious software downloaded from the Internet. To separate “good” from “bad” software, Apple implemented a so called “notarization” process, and software which has not been „notarized“ cannot be executed on macOS Catalina without further ado.

By the usage of script nodes QF-Test allows embedding of special custom functionality into your test cases. Typically, these scripts are supposed to be short and relatively simple containing just dedicated functionality, whereas the majority of test logic is done via QF-Test visual nodes.

OK, this is a really special case, but with the increasing use of the QF-Test license server this case is happening more often. The license server just has to be reachable by all QF-Test instances, which use a compatible client license for the server license. When starting, they ask explicitly just this license server if the requested license is still available.