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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).

It is relatively easy to take a screenshot of the complete picture with the help of QF-Test. For example, to create a screenshot of the current desktop, only the procedure logScreenshot must be called.

On a popular demand we have created examples on how QF-Test can be integrated with JIRA.

“Why do my automated UI tests break?” That was the seminar question of a student. With this, he asked the central question for test automation. Because the success of this, as well as the daily work of QA, stands and falls with the recognition of the objects – or their failure/breakage of the tests.

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.