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QF-Test and AI – Special webinar on March 2, 2026 – register now for free

2026-02-11T00:00:00+01:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

Get ready for the first QF-Test webinar of the year. On March 2, 2026 we will focus on “Artificial Intelligence”. Business software requires reliability, not experimentation. That’s why, in this special webinar, we explain how we are using AI in a targeted way – now and in the future – where it delivers real value, and how it helps you test more efficiently.

Best regards,
your QFS team

Next QF-Test special webinar

March 2, 2026, 3:30 PM (CET) When tests become intelligent: AI-driven checks with QF-Test

In this special webinar, we’ll show you how to get the most out of the new AI integrations in QF-Test. With QF-Test 10, you can use AI to test non-deterministic UIs, validate UI components based on semantic criteria, generate test data, and much more.

Alternative date: Webinar in German on March 2, 2026, at 10:30 AM

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Are you already using the latest version of QF-Test?

The maintenance release QF-Test 10.0.2 increases flexibility for LLM communication (for example, for the AI Check node). It also improves the stability of communication with the QF-Test license server and fixes a few bugs.

Download QF-Test 10.0.2

To the Release Notes
Watch the Release video
Available since 2026-01-15

Events in 2026

QF-Test Basics: training courses via webinar

➡️February 23–26, 2026 in German

📆March 23–26, 2026 in English

More about the training courses

4 days, 2 × 2.5 hours each
Effective and rapid knowledge transfer
Small groups up to 8 participants
You can interact with the trainers and ask questions at any time.

Individual QF-Test company trainings

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Ask our service team for a quote

News

Tutorial: Using GitHub Copilot with the QF-Test AI Integration

We show how to connect GITHub Copilot to QF-Test using a simple custom model and the Copilot CLI.

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Testing ZK Applications with QF-Test

The great thing about ZK has always been that you can build web applications without having to deal with writing and maintaining HTML and JavaScript code.

➜ Read the blog article now

BITMARCK case study: best practice for mobile app testing

Our customer BITMARCK Software GmbH uses QF-Test to perform mobile regression testing for iOS and Android applications. The case study shows how QF-Test ensures the high quality of iOS and Android applications in every release cycle.

➜ To the case study

Case study ABS: automated nightly testing process saves significant time and effort

“QF-Test, as the best solution for automated testing of our Swing-based ERP system for the laundry business, has exceeded our expectations for over 15 years.”

➜ Read the case study now

Master complex systems with QF-Test

Based on the quality engineering strategy of Lilia Gargouri at mgm technology partners, our blog article shows how QF-Test helps organizations test software projects efficiently, scalably, and reliably.

➜ Read the blog article now

Partying in cozy alpine cabin vibes

In a relaxed atmosphere, full of coziness and great vibes, the QF-Test team took part in this year’s Winter Cabin Magic event hosted by our parent company, mgm technology partners.

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From our YouTube Channel

New video about QF-Test

Whether you’re building web apps, mobile experiences or desktop applications, QF-Test helps you deliver quality, faster.

➜ Watch the video now

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Maintenace release QF-Test 10.0.1 & season’s greetings by QFS

2025-12-18T00:00:00+01:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

As we approach the end of another remarkable year, we would like to take a moment to thank you for your trust, loyalty, and excellent collaboration. Together, we have once again achieved a great deal this year:

With QF-Test 9 and 10, you benefit from powerful enhancements such as WebAPI testing and AI-driven validation, improved accessibility testing and much more flexible image-based testing capabilities. We look forward to your feedback on our new QF-Test editions.

Through continuous development, we keep our finger on the pulse. Accordingly, we are releasing maintenance version 10.0.1 today with several important bug fixes.

Features for integrating the test management tools Q12-TMT and Xray as well as support for Oracle Forms are currently under development and will also be included in QF-Test 10 soon with upcoming minor updates.

We’re excited to continue this journey with you in 2026! We wish you and your families a relaxing and restful Christmas season. Treat yourself to some quality time, enjoy the festive season, and recharge your batteries for the coming year.

With warm regards and best wishes for a successful, healthy, and happy 2026,
your QFS team

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Are you already using the latest version of QF-Test?

The maintenance release QF-Test 10.0.1 fixes startup issues under QF-Test 10.0.0 related to certain license files and addresses several other minor bugs.

Download QF-Test 10.0.1

To the Release Notes
Watch the Release video
Available since 2025-12-18

Events in 2026

Next QF-Test special webinar

March 2, 2026, 3:30 PM (CET) When tests become intelligent: AI-driven checks with QF-Test

Alternative date: Webinar in German on March 2, 2026, at 10:30 AM

QF-Test Basics: Training courses via webinar

February 23–26, 2026 in German

March 23–26, 2026 in English

More about the training courses

4 days, 2 × 2.5 hours each
Effective and rapid knowledge transfer
Small groups up to 8 participants
You can interact with the trainers and ask questions at any time.

Individual QF-Test Company Trainings

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Ask our service team for a quote

News

Donations 2025

At QFS, we are pleased to once again support a number of nonprofit organizations with donations this year. Our employees also contribute by nominating projects that are particularly meaningful to them.

➜ These organizations are supported by QFS in 2025

From our YouTube Channel

New video about QF-Test

Whether you’re building web apps, mobile experiences or desktop applications, QF-Test helps you deliver quality, faster.

➜ Watch the video now

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QF-Test 10 with WebAPI Testing and new editions

2025-12-09T00:00:00+01:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

Our new release QF-Test 10 takes test automation to the next level.

In addition to powerful enhancements like WebAPI testing and AI-driven validation, you will benefit from improved accessibility testing and much more flexible image-based testing capabilities.

We are also excited to introduce our new QF-Test editions. They make test automation simpler, more transparent, and better tailored to your specific needs. You can find more details in this newsletter.

Best wishes,
your QFS team

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Do you already use the latest version of QF-Test?

Download QF-Test 10.0

To the Release Notes
Watch the Release Video
Available since 2025-12-09

QF-Test is now available in the following editions

QF-Test Web – supports all common browsers, including accessibility testing, Electron applications and, new: APIs and web services

QF-Test Desktop – for Java programs and native Windows applications

QF-Test Mobile – for Android and iOS apps

QF-Test Pro – combines all technologies and additionally supports hybrid applications

The editions focus on the UI technologies and display only the relevant program features, making the QF-Test interface significantly leaner. Our manual is also optimized for each edition and contains only the information relevant to you.

Consistent with previous QF-Test versions, QF-Test Pro combines the technologies of the other editions and also supports hybrid applications.

Depending on the UI technologies being tested, using a dedicated edition — QF-Test Web, QF-Test Desktop, or QF-Test Mobile — can be advantageous, as it focuses the feature set accordingly.

We are confident that the new editions will allow you to make your test automation projects even more efficient, and we look forward to supporting you along the way.

Our valued existing customers do not need to take any action. You can continue to use QF-Test Pro as usual within the scope of your current licenses. Existing licenses and contracts will, of course, remain valid.

For early adopters who wish to expand their existing licenses under the previous scheme and pricing model, we offer the opportunity to request a corresponding quote until end of January 2026.

If you have any questions regarding the transition, you can contact our team at any time.

Get in touch with our service team now

Highlights in QF-Test 10

QF-Test 10 introduces powerful enhancements for WebAPI testing.

Create end-to-end HTTP requests, manage authentication, cookies, and proxies through dedicated nodes, and customize workflows to combine UI and API automation in hybrid scenarios.

The new “Check Text with AI” node and the “ai” scripting module enable the integration of externally hosted LLMs to perform dynamic text validations and handle non-deterministic UI behavior.

Accessibility testing has also been significantly improved, with YAML-based configuration and additional checks for keyboard focus visibility and correct usage of the “lang” attribute.

Image-based testing is now much more flexible. Use the new “Set Image” and “Read Image” nodes to define image variables and apply them in the “Check Image” node and other image-related procedures.

There are many, many more features in QF-Test 10 to explore. You can find all the details in the Release Notes on our website.

Features for integrating the test management tools TMT and Xray as well as support for Oracle Forms are currently under development and will also be included in QF-Test 10 soon with upcoming minor updates.

Events in 2026

QF-Test Basics: Trainings via Webinar

February 23–26, 2026 – in German

March 23–26, 2026 – in English

More about the training courses

4 days, 2 × 2.5 hours each
Effective and rapid knowledge transfer
Small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

Individual QF-Test Company Training courses

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Ask our service team for a quote

From our YouTube Channel

Going POSTal! Discover WebAPI Testing in QF-Test

QF-Test 10 fundamentally revamps web interface testing, focusing on web APIs such as REST, SOAP, and other web services. In this recording of a special webinar, we introduce you to the new features.

➜ Watch the video now

Scripting in QF-Test (basics)

This video provides an overview of how to use scripts in QF-Test: the SUT script and the server script.

➜ Watch the video now

Dependencies in QF-Test (basics)

This video explains the purposes and intentions of dependencies in QF-Test and shows how simple dependencies are implemented.

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QF-Test Special Webinar about WebAPI Testing

2025-10-15T00:00:00+02:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

We would like to cordially invite you to our next free QF-Test special webinar on October 20, 2025, at 3:30 PM!

With the upcoming version 10 of QF-Test we are expanding our proven test automation tool with a powerful new feature: support for web API testing.

This means that QF‑Test now offers comprehensive capabilities not only for UI test automation, but also for automated testing of web interfaces (web APIs) thus REST, SOAP, and other web services.

Best wishes,
your QFS team

Upcoming QF-Test special webinar

October 20, 2025, 3:30 PMGoing POSTal! Discover WebAPI Testing in QF-Test

With QF-Test 10, the testing of web interfaces has been fundamentally revised, with a focus on web APIs such as REST, SOAP and other web services. In this special webinar, we will introduce you to the new functions.

Special webinar in German, October 20, 2025, 10:30 AM

WebAPI early adopters wanted

If you would like to try out the new feature for testing web services and web APIs before QF-Test 10 is released, we are happy to welcome you as early adopter.

Please let us know what is particularly important to you when testing web APIs and which use cases you would like to cover with them.

Get in touch with our service team now

Save the date: Events in 2025

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar

November 10–13, 2025in English

More about the training

4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each
Effective and rapid knowledge transfer
Small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

Individual QF-Test Company Trainings

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Ask our service team for a quote

From our YouTube Channel

Beyond Strings – how to effectively use object variables in QF-Test 9

This webinar video provides a technical overview of the concept of object variables in QF-Test.

➜ Watch the Video now

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Do you already use the latest version of QF-Test?

Download QF-Test 9.0.6

To the Release Notes
Available since 2025-09-10

QF-Test 9.0.5 available

2025-07-30T00:00:00+02:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

What’s new?

Today’s maintenance release QF-Test 9.0.5 raises the embedded JRE to Temurin 17.0.16, updates some embedded libraries and fixes a few small bugs to further improve stability and reliability.

We are currently preparing the next special webinar on a new feature of the upcoming version 10. This time it’s all about testing web interfaces (WebAPIs) such as REST, SOAP and other web services. If you are already interested in advance, please contact us – early adopters are very welcome! Please let us know what is particularly important to you in API testing and which use cases you would like to cover.

The recording of our July special webinar on object variables is now available online. The video shows how to use object variables efficiently in your tests. You will find the link further down in the newsletter.

As always, you can also look forward to the latest training dates, practice-oriented blog articles such as “Scrolling your web application with QF-Test” and helpful video tutorials.

Best wishes,
your QFS team

QF-Test Version 9.0.5

Download QF-Test version 9.0.5
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Save the date: Events in 2025

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
September 29 – October 2, 2025, German
November 10 – 13, 2025, English
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

➜ Sign up now

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Special Webinar
Going POSTal! Discover WebAPI Testing in QF-Test
October 20, 2025, 3:30 PM (CEST) (provisional)

With QF-Test 10, the testing of web interfaces is fundamentally revised, with a focus on web APIs such as REST, SOAP and other web services. In this special webinar, we present the new functions.

➜ Sign up for free

Special webinar in German at 10:30 a.m.

Talk at TACON 2025: Erfolg in der E2E-Testautomatisierung
September 23–24, 2025, Leipzig, Germany
Lilia Gargouri, Head of Quality Assurance at mgm technology partners, gives a talk about how to increase the maintainability and stability of their tests through modular test architectures and effective test data management. Participants learn how to minimize volatile tests and apply robust test design principles.

➜ To Tacon

Q12-TMT Test Management Tool
Our parent company mgm technology partners will be represented with Q12-TMT at international and German conferences, events and webinars. As a professional tool for structured test case creation, planning, execution, documentation and reporting, TMT may also be of interest to you as a supplement to QF-Test.

➜ To testing events with mgm in 2025

News

Scrolling on the Web with QF-Test: The complete guide – In this blog post, you`ll get to know all about how to control how QF-Test scrolls your web application and how to control that scrolling yourself.
➜ Go to the blog

From our YouTube Channel

Special webinar video
Beyond Strings – how to effectively use object variables in QF-Test 9
As of QF-Test 9 any objects can be stored in QF-Test variables. In this special webinar we show, how object variables can be used profitably in your tests.
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QF-Test 9.0.4 & QF-Test Special webinar on object variables

2025-06-11T00:00:00+02:00

QF-Test 9.0.4 available, special webinar about object variables

Hello dear QF-Test users!

Today’s maintenance release QF-Test 9.0.4 adds support for Java 25 as well as for Eclipse / SWT 4.36 alias “2025-06” and fixes a number of bugs.

We also cordially invite you to our free special webinar on July 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM. The focus will be on the topic of object variables, which has opened up completely new possibilities beyond strings since QF-Test 9. We look forward to your participation!

In this newsletter, you’ll also find upcoming training dates, hands-on blog articles, and helpful QF-Test videos.

Best wishes,
your QFS team

QF-Test Version 9.0.4

Download QF-Test version 9.0.4
See the new features of QF-Test 9 in our release video Automatically test the accessibility of your web application
To the Release Notes

Save the date: Events in 2025

Special Webinar
Beyond Strings – how to effectively use object variables in QF-Test 9
July 14, 2025, 3:30 PM (CEST)

Until now all QF-Test variables contained only strings – if you wanted to store e.g. numbers, they were always converted back and forth. As of QF-Test 9 any objects can be stored in QF-Test variables. In this special webinar we show, how object variables can be used profitably in your tests.

➜ Sign up for free

Special webinar in German at 10:30 a.m.

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
September 29 – October 2, 2025, German
November 10 – 13, 2025, English
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

➜ Sign up now

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

➜ To Tacon

➜ To testing events with mgm in 2025

News

Maximizing SUT windows – a good idea? Scale windows in QF-Test rather than maximize them – this ensures stable and reproducible tests. If you still need full-screen mode, you can maximize windows with a small script.
➜ Go to the blog
How can I create screenshots of my client application with QF-Test? Screenshots from QF-Test can be saved easily with a simple script. This allows screen recordings to be used specifically for further analysis or documentation purposes – without any detour via the run log.
➜ Go to the blog
What QA engineers say about QF‑Test– “I’ve been automating with QF-Test again for almost 5 months now and it’s a lot of fun. QF-Test is a miracle bag, practically everything can be implemented, stability and performance are unsurpassed. I love it! :-)”
Thank you Walter Hodel, Senior Test Automation Engineer, Product Quality, Xebia Switzerland AG. We love your feedback!

From our YouTube Channel

Special webinar video
Web Accessibility Testing with QF-Test
In this webinar recording we give an introduction to web accessibility and present the new accessibility testing features of QF-Test.
➜ Watch the video now

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QF-Test Special Webinar Web Accessibility

2025-05-13T00:00:00+02:00

QF-Test Special Webinar Web Accessibility

Hello dear QF-Test users!

We would also like to invite you to our next free special webinar on May 19, 2024.

Web Accessibility Testing with QF-Test
May 19, 2025, 3:30 PM (CEST)

By June 28, 2025, business websites within the EU must be accessible. But what does accessibility mean in a web context? Who is affected and what do website operators need to be aware of?
And above all: How can QF-Test support you in meeting the legal requirements?

In this webinar, we will give a brief introduction to web accessibility and present the new accessibility testing features of QF-Test.

➜ Sign up for free

Special webinar in German at 10:30 a.m.

We look forward to your participation!

Best wishes,
your QFS team

Save the date: Events in 2025

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
May 26, 2025, 2 × 2,5 hours, in German

Following the great success of the previous Expert Days, an English version has now been scheduled. In this online training, we will dive deeply into QF-Test and show you how to optimize the interaction with your web application. With practical exercises on special topics and individual answers to your personal questions, we will ensure that you get the most out of the training. Register now and make your testing processes even more efficient.

➜ Details, pricing and registration

NEW! QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
June 23 – 26, 2025, English
June 30 – July 3, 2025, German
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

➜ Sign up now

“QF-Test is definitively a powerful tool. I think this training will be a game changer in our way to use it and to think our new QF NextGen Framework! Very encouraging. Thank you very much.”

Paul Singuinia, training participant, TotalEnergies One Tech, France

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

➜ To testing events with mgm in 2025

From Our YouTube Channel

Feature video – Scripting in QF-Test – Scripting in QF-Test allows you to use the common scripting languages Jython, Groovy and JavaScript to extend your tests with arbitrary logic and simplify some complex test automation tasks. This video gives an overview of the basics of using scripts in QF-Test.
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Feature video – Intelligent test pre- and post-processing: Dependencies can be used to automatically control preconditions and cleanup work for test cases so that they can be executed independently and flexibly – ideal for retriggering only faulty tests or debugging, for example. This video shows how dependencies work and the benefits of the feature.
➜ Watch the video now

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Maintenance Release QF-Test 9.0.2

2025-04-09T00:00:00+02:00

Maintenance Release QF-Test 9.0.2 available

Hello dear QF-Test users!

We’ve again been busy in the last few weeks: Today`s release QF-Test 9.0.2 fixes a potential corruption of the system configuration file, improves client connectivity and adds object type support to data drivers. It also comes with some updated libraries and fixes a few bugs. QF-Test 9.0.1 improved some of the new features in QF-Test 9, including the manual and screenshots in reports for accessibility testing.

In addition we would also like to invite you to our next special webinar on May 19, 2024. This time it’s all about automated testing for accessibility – we look forward to your participation!

Best wishes,
your QFS team

QF-Test Version 9.0.2

Download QF-Test version 9.0.2
See the new features of QF-Test 9 in our release video Automatically test the accessibility of your web application
To the Release Notes

News

Case study: Testing a complex software solution for social insurance
➜ To the Case study of BITMARCK Software GmbH
QF-Test vs. Tosca – why an IT service provider recommends QF-Test to its customer for testing a Java Swing application.
➜ To the comparison by DVZ GmbH
It’s not magic: How the CustomWebResolver makes your web application UI testable – we are convinced that semantic components and the CustomWebResolver are the best way to create reliable, robust and comprehensive UI tests for web applications.
➜ Go to the blog
Automated web accessibility testing– in his bachelor thesis and in our next special webinar, Daniel Rieth put QF-Test through its paces for the automated testing of web application accessibility.
➜ More about Web Accessibility Testing with QF-Test

Save the date: Events in 2025

Special webinar
Web Accessibility Testing with QF-Test
May 19, 2025, 3:30 PM (CEST)

By June 28 of this year, business websites within the EU must be accessible.
But what does accessibility mean in a web context? What do providers have to pay attention to?
And above all: How can QF-Test support you in meeting the legal requirements?

In this webinar, we will give a brief introduction to web accessibility and present the new accessibility testing features of QF-Test.

➜ Sign up for free

We’ll publish the recording (without the Q&A) afterwards. Special webinar in German: 10:30 a.m.

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
May 26, 2025, 2 × 2,5 hours, in German

➜ Details, pricing and registration

NEW! QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
June 23 – 26, 2025, English
June 30 – July 3, 2025, German
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

➜ Sign up now

“QF-Test is definitively a powerful tool. I think this training will be a game changer in our way to use it and to think our new QF NextGen Framework! Very encouraging. Thank you very much.”

Paul Singuinia, training participant, TotalEnergies One Tech, France

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

➜ To testing events with mgm in 2025

From our YouTube Channel

Release video “Automatically test the accessibility of your web application with QF-Test 9” – In this video we give you a short overview about the new features of QF-Test 9.
➜ Watch the video now

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QF-Test 9 now available: Automated accessibility testing of web applications

2025-02-20T00:00:00+01:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

Making your web content accessible to everyone is no longer optional, but often a must – at least when the German Accessibility Improvement Act (BFSG) comes into force in June 2025. Our new version QF-Test 9 can now support you in the automated testing of your websites or web applications for compliance with established accessibility standards.

We also added object-based variables to QF-Test and completely revised our manual, including navigation and local full-text search. Find out more in the highlights below.

Best wishes,
your QFS team

QF-Test Version 9

Download QF-Test version 9
See the new features in our release video “Automatically test the accessibility of your web application with QF-Test 9”
To the Release Notes

Highlights in QF-Test 9

With QF-Test 9 you can automatically test your websites and web applications for accessibility and take important steps towards compliance with BFSG, WCAG and other standards. In addition to all test modules of the proven axe-core library, we also offer the testing of graphics for required color contrasts. Each test run is complemented by an interactive report containing accurate screenshots and solution proposals.

Our power users will be thrilled about the new object-based variable concept. QF-Test variables are no longer limited to strings – you can now also store lists, UI components, images and arbitrary data structures.
See also our latest blog about Objects in QF-Test variables.

Our HTML manual has been completely revised for QF-Test 9. With its integrated navigation and lightning-fast full-text search, you always keep an overview – now also in dark mode.

The UI inspector, our powerful tool for understanding QF-Test’s live view of your application, now has search and filter function so you won’t get lost even in deeply nested hierarchies.

There are many more features to discover in QF-Test 9 such as an ”@option”-Doctag. All details can be found in the Release Notes. Please also take a look at the notes on possibly incompatible changes.

Save the date: Events in 2025

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
March 17-20, 2025, German
March 24-27, 2025, English
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

➜ Sign up now

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Free special webinar
Web Accessibility Testing with QF-Test
May 19, 2025, 3:30 PM (CEST)

In this webinar, we will give a brief introduction to web accessibility and present the new accessibility testing features of QF-Test.

➜Sign up now for free special webinar

We’ll publish the recording (without the Q&A) afterwards. Special webinar in German: 10:30 a.m.

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
May 26, 2025, 2 × 2,5 h, in German

➜Details, pricing and registration

News

Accessibility testing for web applications: The online magazine “Informatik Aktuell” has published an interesting article on the topic of accessibility with several approaches and considerations. QF-Test will also provide accessibility tests for websites from the next version.
➜To the German article on Informatik-aktuell.de
Accessibility testing: QF-Test compared to other tools – Tobias Kirsch, Senior Software Engineer at Adesso evaluates QF-Test beta test developer version with a11y checks.
➜Go to the German blog from Adesso
From a simple email to a memorable internship – “This feeling of being ready and useful very quickly was extremely satisfying and gave me a lot of motivation” Find out more about Maxime’s internship at QFS.
➜Go to the blog

From our YouTube Channel

Special webinar “Efficient end-to-end test automation with QF-Test”: In this recording, Lilia Gargouri shows how QF-Test has been used at mgm technology partners for over ten years – across five different UI technologies and ten locations, in a mixed team of developers, QA analysts and business analysts – and how it has saved them thousands of hours of manual testing.
➜ Watch the video now

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QF-Test special webinar “Efficient end-to-end test automation” on Feb. 3, 2025

2025-01-16T00:00:00+01:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

We are starting the new year with an invitation to our exciting new special webinar by Lilia Gargouri, a proven expert in quality assurance and test automation and soon to be a member of the German Testing Board.

How can we achieve higher quality with less effort?
This is the core question of Lilia Gargouri, Head of Quality Assurance at mgm technology partners.
In this webinar, she shows how QF-Test has been used for over ten years in currently 22 projects at mgm – with five different UI technologies and across ten locations, in a mixed team of developers, QA analysts and business analysts – and how it saves them thousands of hours of manual testing.
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Best wishes and a good start in 2025,
your QFS team

Save the date: Events in 2025

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
March 10-13, 2025, German
March 24-27, 2025, English
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

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Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
May 26, 2025, 2 × 2,5 h, in German

➜Details, pricing and registration

News

Introduction to QF-Test Plugin Development – We show you step by step using an example how to customize QF-Test to your needs to make your testing process more efficient.
➜Go to the blog
Extending the QF-Test Assertion API – A practical introduction.
➜Go to the blog

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Season Greetings 2024

2024-12-05T00:00:00+01:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

As the year draws to a close, we would like to thank you for your loyalty, your trust and your valuable cooperation. Together, we have made 2024 an eventful and successful year!

Over the past few months, we have been able to implement many exciting improvements and innovations in QF-Test.

We have adapted our UI to make it more attractive and user-friendly. Two new UI themes allow customizing the look and feel.

As a highlight, we have added the new test platform iOS and now cover all mobile operating systems.

We also have big plans for the coming year 2025. You can expect helpful new features: with automated accessibility testing, you can find out whether your web application is ready for the German Accessibility Improvement Act (BFSG), which will come into force in June 2025. And some of our power users will take notice at the word “object variables” (early adopters welcome – please get in touch with us).

We wish you and your loved ones a relaxing time for the upcoming holidays. Enjoy some “quality” time and recharge your batteries for the new year. We look forward to continuing to stand by your side with QF-Test in 2025.

Best wishes for the new year,
your QFS team

QF-Test Version 8.0.2

This maintenance release 8.0.2 adds support for Java 24 and Eclipse / SWT 4.34 alias “2024-12”. It also comes with a few updated libraries and fixes a number of bugs.

Download QF-Test version 8.0.2
To the Release Notes
Along with the release 8.0 we created a short video to showcase the biggest new features of QF-Test 8

Save the date: Events in 2025

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
March 10-13, 2025, German
March 24-27, 2025, English
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

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Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
May 26, 2025, 2 × 2,5 h, in German

Following the great success of the previous Expert Days, we have scheduled another event. In this online training we will dive deeply into QF-Test and show you how to optimize the interaction with your web application. With practical exercises on special topics and individual answers to your personal questions, we will ensure that you get the most out of the training. Register now and make your testing processes even more efficient.

➜Details, pricing and registration

News

AI is a Big Topic – Celebrating WorldQualityDay2024 is a good reason for us to discuss in our new blog if there is a need for AI support in QF-Test.
➜Go to the blog
My 4-Year Experience as a working student at QFS – A Retrospective
➜Go to the blog
QFS Christmas party – a nice get-together… and always keep the ball in play!
➜Look at some fotos

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qfs.de is now qftest.com

2024-10-25T00:00:00+02:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

We have important news:

qfs.de is now qftest.com

This week we switched our websites to the domain qftest.com.

After almost 25 years with our beloved 3-letter domain qfs.de, this change was of course not easy for us, but there are good reasons for it:

On the one hand, we want to focus even more strongly on our product QF-Test, and on the other the .com ending is an important building block for further development in the international market.

For the time being, nothing will change for you: All previous pages on qfs.de will be automatically redirected to the new location. Our email addresses remain the same until further notice and will then also be redirected.

And of course you can always rely on our “Quality First” service and support for our product QF-Test.

Thank you for your trust and loyalty!

Best regards,
your QFS team

Save the date: Events in 2024/25

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
November 4, 2024, 2 × 2,5 h, in English

➜Details, pricing and registration

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
November 04-07, 2024, English
March 10-13, 2025, German
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

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News

Foosball, coffee, code: internship at QFS – “3 to 3. match ball. The players stand tensely in their positions, their hands sweaty. Throw-in.” Read here what an internship in the development department at QF-Test really feels like.
➜Go to the blog
QFS Summer Event 2024 – the QFS team met in Landshut for an unforgettable company event. We had a really nice weekend full of team spirit and good humor! Fancy a few photos?
➜QFS in Landshut
Students visit QFS – a fantastic opportunity to give the next generation of technology innovators an insight into QF-Test. The students were curious to learn more about the innovative test automation solutions we develop at QFS.
➜In the QFS office
QFS Sport Challenge 2024 – inspired by our parent company’s #mgmfit4community campaign in spring, we continue to fly the sporting flag and are active in the office every Thursday. Sometimes strenuous, sometimes relaxing, but definitely always fun and challenging.
➜Everyday life at QFS

From our YouTube Channel

special webinar “iOS included: Testing mobile apps with QF-Test 8”: In this video, we show you how to conveniently record and efficiently automate tests for iOS apps. Our experts also reveal tricks and tips from the field.
➜ Watch the video now

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Special Webinar “Testing Mobile Apps” and QF-Test 8.0.1

2024-09-12T00:00:00+02:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

we would like to invite you to our next free QF-Test special webinar on September 23, 2024 about iOS included: Testing mobile apps with QF-Test 8 at 15:30 (CEST). We will show you how to conveniently record tests for iOS apps and efficiently automate your tests. Our experts will also reveal tricks and tips from the field. Sign up now.

To get a first impression of Mobile Testing for iOS, take a look at our video about QF-Test 8.

In addition QF-Test 8.0.1 was released yesterday. This maintenance release adds support for Eclipse / SWT 4.33 alias “2024-09” and fixes a number of bugs, including a regression in the Java version for Windows.

In this newsletter you will also find upcoming training dates for beginners and experts, informations about other events as well as interesting news around QFS.

Best regards,
your QFS team

QF-Test Version 8.0.1

Download QF-Test version 8.0.1
We’re unlocking Android and iOS until October 1, 2024, so you can directly run automated tests against your mobile apps with QF-Test 8 and your current license.
To the Release Notes
Along with the release we created a short video to showcase the biggest new features of QF-Test 8

Save the date: Events in 2024

Free special webinar
iOS included: Testing mobile apps with QF-Test 8
September 23, 2024, 15:30 CEST

In this special webinar, we will show you how to run tests for iOS applications conveniently and efficiently automate them. Our experts will reveal practical tricks and tips.

➜ Sign up now

We’ll publish the recording (without the Q&A) afterwards. Special webinar in German: 10:30 a.m.

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
October 21-24, 2024, German
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

➜ Sign up now

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Tacon 2024:Testing, test automation and quality management in software development
September 18-19, 2024, Leipzig, Germany

Our colleague Lilia Gargouri from mgm will take part in the panel discussion “Test automation for accessibility”. Come along, join the discussion and find out more about software quality assurance.

➜Join mgm at Tacon

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
November 4, 2024, 2 × 2,5 h, in English

➜Details, pricing and registration

From our YouTube Channel

Highlights in QF-Test 8: In this video we will show you how you can test iOS applications with QF-Test 8. Also, it will demonstrate what else QF-Test 8 has in store.
➜ Watch the video now

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QF-Test 8 available: Automated Testing of iOS Apps

2024-08-08T00:00:00+02:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

QF-Test version 8 is available and is – as always – the best QF-Test release ever. This needs to be celebrated and that’s why we have a present for you:

We’re unlocking Android and iOS until October 1, 2024, so you can directly run automated tests against your mobile apps with QF-Test 8 and your current license.

In this newsletter you will also find upcoming training dates for beginners and experts, informations about other events as well as interesting news around QFS.

Best regards,
your QFS team

QF-Test Version 8

Download QF-Test version 8
To the Release Notes

Highlights in QF-Test 8

With QF-Test 8 you can now also test native iOS applications under macOS on real devices or in the simulator. With the QF-Test Recorder you get started as usual: Record your actions, edit the generated test steps as required and combine them into test suites that can be played back quickly and reproducibly. Of course, special actions, such as swipe gestures, can also be represented in the test. There is a suitable quick start wizard, iOS devices are recognized, we offer new start and selection nodes, a corresponding recording window and an iOS package has been added to the standard library.

We have adopted the popular Solarized scheme with its harmoniously attuned colors as an optional UI theme for QF-Test. This adds more variety to the visual presentation of QF-Test and is available in light and dark mode.

Do you like Chai.js?
With the QF-Test Assertions API inspired by Chai, you can write scripts with test expressions in a naturally readable style.

Together with our partner Sandec GmbH, support for their JPro technology has been greatly improved. JPro brings JavaFX applications into the browser and QF-Test can simultaneously interact with both technologies, so tests written for JavaFX can be executed almost unchanged with JPro and the browser.

There are many more features to discover in QF-Test 8, such as accessibility improvements or performance gains with Apple Silicon. All details can be found in the Release Notes. Please be sure to pay attention to the notes on possibly incompatible changes.

Save the date: Events in 2024

Free special webinar
iOS included: Testing mobile apps with QF-Test 8
September 23, 2024, 15:30 CEST

In this special webinar, we will show you how to run tests for iOS applications conveniently and efficiently automate them. Our experts will reveal practical tricks and tips.

➜ Sign up now

We’ll publish the recording (without the Q&A) afterwards. Special webinar in German: 10:30 a.m.

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
September 9-12, 2024, English
October 21-24, 2024, German
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

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Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Tacon 2024:Testing, test automation and quality management in software development
September 18-19, 2024, Leipzig, Germany
Our colleague Lilia Gargouri from mgm, who you may have heard in her excellent presentation “A12 Test Automation: Optimizing UI Tests with a Model-Based Low-Code Approach” at the ASQF Testing Days, will take part in the panel discussion “Test automation for accessibility”. Come along, join the discussion and find out more about software quality assurance.

➜Join mgm at Tacon

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
November 4, 2024, 2 × 2,5 h, in English

➜Details, pricing and registration

From our YouTube Channel

The Quickstart Wizard PDF: In this video we`ll show you how to define a PDF as a test object in QF-Test in just a few steps in order to be able to start directly with test development.
➜ Watch the video now

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Release QF-Test 7.1.4 available

2024-06-12T00:00:00+02:00

QF-Test 7.1.4 available

Hello dear QF-Test users!

QF-Test version 7.1.4 is available. This maintenance release adds support for Eclipse 4.32 alias “2024-06” and fixes some minor bugs.

In this newsletter you will also find upcoming training dates for beginners and experts, information about other events as well as interesting news around QFS.

Best regards,
your QFS team

QF-Test Version 7.1.4

Download QF-Test version 7.1.4
To the Release Notes

Save the date: Events in 2024

ASQF Testing Day NRW
June 20, 2024, Düsseldorf, Germany
Our colleagues from mgm will be giving a presentation on „A12 Testautomatisierung: Optimierung von UI-Tests mit modellbasiertem Low-Code-Ansatz“. Come along and find out more about topics relating to software quality assurance.

➜Join mgm at the networking event

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
July 1-4, 2024, German
September 9-12, 2024, English
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

➜ Sign up now

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
November 4, 2024, 2 × 2,5 h, in English

Following the great success of the previous Expert Days, an English version is now available. In this online training, we will dive deeply into QF-Test and show you how to optimize the interaction with your web application. There will be time for exercises on special topics and your personal questions.

➜Details, pricing and registration

News

Case Study from the medical industry – QF-Test secures a software product for practice management for doctors and therapists: Epikur uses QF-Test to test its Java application with AWT, Swing and JavaFX in Windows, macOS and Linux before a new software version is released.
➜ Go to the case study
Webswing and QFS: A powerful alliance for Java application migration – read the blog on what makes QF-Test an ideal tool for organizations migrating their Java applications to the web.
➜To the Blog
German Testing Day 2024 – from stimulating discussions and pitches at the booth to insightful presentations and workshops, the event was a hub of knowledge and networking for the testing community. The team from our parent company mgm technology partners had the pleasure of showcasing mgm’s tools for quality landscape, including QF-Test, and meeting with industry peers to share ideas and insights.
➜Find out more about German Testing Day 2024
Fit4CommunitySport Challenge 2024 – with 53 teams and 534 participants from 20 mgm locations we successfully raised money for World Bicycle Relief under the banner of #mgmfit4community.
➜Find out more

From our YouTube Channel

Video of special webinar “The QF-Test UI inspector in use”: The UI inspector of QF-Test is a valuable tool to better understand the structure of the UI to be tested. In the recording of this special webinar, we will show you how you can use the UI inspector to quickly configure your CustomWebResolver, for example, and what tricks the tool also offers for Windows and Java applications.
➜Watch the video now

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QF-Test 7.1.3: support for Java 23

2024-04-24T00:00:00+02:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

QF-Test version 7.1.3 is available. This maintenance release brings support for Java 23 and fixes some minor bugs.

In line with the current JavaFX blog and our special webinar last Monday about the “QF-Test UI inspector in practice”, the visual inspector for analyzing UI components is now also available for JavaFX applications. The recording of the special webinar will soon be available on our YouTube channel.

In addition to the upcoming training dates for beginners and experts, you will also find dates for trade fair participations in this newsletter.

Best regards,
your QFS team

QF-Test Version 7.1.3

Download QF-Test version 7.1.3
To the Release Notes
Along with release 7.1 we created a short video to showcase the biggest new features of QF-Test 7.1

Save the date: Events in 2024

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
July 1-4, 2024, German
September 9-12, 2024, English
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

➜ Sign up now

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

JAX 2024
April 22-26, 2024, Mainz, Germany
Are you at JAX in Mainz this week? Then visit our partner Webswing, who offers an elegant solution for bringing Java Swing or JavaFX to the web – including the migration of tests of QF-Test.

➜To the conference

German Testing Day
May 7-8, 2024, Frankfurt on the Main, Germany
Our colleagues from mgm technology partners GmbH present the A12-TMT – Test Management Tool, a product of our parent company. The tool was developed for the management of test cases. In addition to the classic test management functions such as structured test case creation, test execution, documentation and reporting, A12-TMT uses risk-based testing as a central element for prioritizing test cases.

➜Visit mgm at the booth and listen to the presentation “Qualitätssicherung im digitalen Roulette: Unser Weg durch den Formular-Dschungel”

➜Join mgm at the networking event

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
November 4, 2024, 2 × 2,5 h, in English

➜Details, pricing and registration

News

JavaFX – More alive than ever– the activities and diversity of the FX world were impressively demonstrated at the JFX Adopters Meeting at ZEISS in Munich at the beginning of March 2024.
➜ Continue reading our blog post
That’s gigantic – “So far – and this is just an interim result – we have saved 28,638 hours in our end-to-end test automation in 25 projects with 5 technologies (Web, JavaFX, Electron, Android, SWT) at 10 locations with QF-Test.” Wow! Thanks to Lilia Gargouri, project manager of mgm Quality Team, for this impressive number.
➜Find out more about time savings and ROI due to testautomation with QF-Test

From our YouTube Channel

The Quickstart Wizard Web: In this video we`ll show how to define a web application as test object in QF-Test in just a view steps in order to be able to start directly with test development.
➜ Watch the video now

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QF-Test 7.1.2 available, special webinar about UI inspector on April 22, 2024

2024-03-14T00:00:00+01:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

QF-Test version 7.1.2 is available. This maintenance release brings support for Eclipse / SWT 4.31 or “2024-03” and fixes some minor bugs.

In addition we would like to invite you to our next special webinar The QF-Test UI inspector in use on April 22, 2024. QF-Test’s UI inspector is a valuable tool to better understand the structure of the UI under test. In this special webinar, we will show you how you can use the UI inspector to quickly configure your CustomWebResolver and what tricks the tool also offers for Windows and Java applications.

Are you already familiar with our other training courses? There are suitable offers for both, beginners and experts.

Best regards,
your QFS team

QF-Test Version 7.1.2

Download QF-Test version 7.1.2
To the Release Notes
Along with release 7.1 we created a short video to showcase the biggest new features of QF-Test 7.1

Save the date: Events in 2024

Free special webinar
The QF-Test UI inspector in use
April 22, 2024, 15:30 CEST

The UI inspector of QF-Test is a valuable tool to better understand the structure of the UI to be tested. In this special webinar, we will show you how you can use the UI inspector to quickly configure your CustomWebResolver and what tricks the tool also offers for Windows and Java applications.

➜ Sign up now

We’ll publish the recording (without the Q&A) afterwards. Special webinar in German: 10:30 a.m.

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
April 15-18, 2024, German
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

➜ Sign up now

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
November 4, 2024, 2 × 2,5 h, in English

➜Details, pricing and registration

News

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.
➜ Continue reading our blog post
QFS New Year’s reception: annual review and outlook - exciting ideas for possible future areas of application for AI models at QFS.
➜Continue reading

From our YouTube Channel

Video of special webinar “Smart Testing with SmartID”: SmartID is a completely new way to address the UI components of you application which we continue to tweak and improve. In this recording of the special webinar, we will show you the new feature additions in QF-Test 7 around SmartID and label recognition, and how you can make the most of your tests with them.
➜Watch the video now

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QF-Test 7.1 available, Online Expert Day on March 4, 2024

2024-02-20T00:00:00+01:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

In our latest medium upgrade QF-Test 7.1 the display of tree nodes in test-suites and run logs has been freshened to a more condensed style that is highly configurable. Additionally, QF-Test now has a carefully tuned high contrast theme which is easier on some eyes and improves the accessibility of QF-Test.

The QF-Test UI inspector has been extended to also support Windows, Swing and embedded web applications.

For testing web applications QF-Test comes with a variety of preconfigured CustomWebResolvers. These have been extended with version 7.1 to directly support applications developed with current versions of Vaadin (14, 23 & 24+) or the Flutter web framework, or which are generally compatible with the WCAG ARIA standard.

Please see Relase Notes for details about these and many other improvements and bug fixes.

Best regards and have fun with the new version,

your QFS team

QF-Test Version 7.1

Download QF-Test version 7.1
To the Release Notes
Along with this release we created a short video to showcase the biggest new features of QF-Test 7.1

Save the date: Events in 2024

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
March 4, 2024, 2 × 2,5 h, in German

After the great success of the first Expert Day, we are now relaunching it. In this online training, we will dive deeply into QF-Test and show you how to optimize the interaction with your web application. There will be time for exercises on special topics and your personal questions.

➜Details, pricing and registration

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
March 11–14, 2024, English
April 15–18, 2024, German
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

➜ Sign up now

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Free special webinar
The QF-Test UI inspector in use
April 22, 2024, 15:30 CEST

The UI inspector of QF-Test is a valuable tool to better understand the structure of the interface to be tested. In this special webinar, we will show you how you can use the UI inspector to quickly configure your CustomWebResolver, for example, and what tricks the tool also offers for Windows and Java applications.

➜ Sign up now

We’ll publish the recording (without the Q&A) afterwards. Special webinar in German: 10:30 a.m.

News

Case study: Successful start with test automation of web apps – the development team of our long-standing customer pds GmbHwas particularly impressed by the seamless transition between proven testing the Java software and testing the new Flutter website with QF-Test.
➜To the case study
How Webswing is revolutionizing the Migration of Java desktop applications to the web– and with QF-Test you can ensure the correct functionality of your application at every step of the migration process.
➜ Continue reading our blog post
Vacancy or job wanted? – Are you looking for experienced employees or freelancers with QF-Test knowledge? Or are you a QF-Test user, looking for new projects or a job related to test automation with QF-Test? We would be happy to actively introduce you to each other or publish your job advertisement or job application on our website. Our service team will be happy to help you.
➜ Get in touch with our service team

From our YouTube Channel

Quickstart Wizard Java: This updated video shows the creation of a setup sequence with QF-Test. This sequence allows to start your Java application as System under Test (SUT) from QF-Test.
➜Watch the video now
Highlights of QF-Test Version 7.1: This short video summarizes the highlights of the latest medium upgrade QF-Test 7.1.
➜ Watch the video now

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QF-Test 7.0.8 released, seasons greetings

2023-12-05T00:00:00+01:00

Hello dear QF-Test users!

Our latest maintenance release QF-Test 7.0.8 is available for download. It adds support for Eclipse 2023-12 as well as JxBrowser 7.36 and fixes a number of smaller bugs.

We would like to thank you all very much for the pleasant cooperation over the past year. In addition to the further development of QF-Test, the focus in 2023 was on growing together with our parent company mgm technology partners. For 2024, you can look forward to exciting innovations in and around QF-Test.

Once again we are using our donation budget to support various aid projects, each of which makes important contributions.

We wish you and your families a peaceful holiday season and a good start into the new year.

Best regards,

your QFS team

QF-Test 7.0.8

The maintenance release QF-Test 7.0.8 adds support for Eclipse / SWT 4.30 alias “2023-12” as well as JxBrowser 7.36 and fixes a number of smaller bugs.

Download QF-Test version 7.0.8
To the Release Notes

Save the date: Events in 2024

Free special webinar
Test the smart way with SmartID
February 5, 2024, 15:30 CET

“SmartID” is a new way to address the UI components of your application which we continue to tweak and improve. In this special webinar, we will show you the new feature additions in QF-Test 7 around SmartID and label recognition, and how you can make the most of your tests with them.

➜ Sign up now

We’ll publish the recording (without the Q&A) afterwards. Special webinar in German: 2024-02-05, 10:30 a.m.

Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
March 4, 2024, 2 × 2,5 h, in German

➜Details, pricing and registration

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
March 11–14, 2024
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time

➜ Sign up now

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

News

How mgm Advances Test Automation with QF-Test– our parent company mgm technology partners describes how it uses QF-Test in a clever way to automate the testing of its model-driven enterprise low-code framework A12.
➜ Continue reading our blog post
Revolutionizing Test Automation with AI– insights from TACON 2023by Lilia Gargouri.
➜ Continue reading our blog post

From our YouTube Channel

In the video recording of our special webinar ”No rocket science – Launch your web tests with QF-Test 7’s new component mapping workflow” we show you how to make the most of the new UI inspector and CustomWebResolver node.
➜Watch the video now

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QF-Test 7.0.6 & 7.0.7 released, Invitation to Expert Day via Webinar

2023-10-11T00:00:00+02:00

QF-Test maintenance release 7.0.6 & 7.0.7 | NEW: Expert Day via Webinar in November

Hello dear QF-Test users!

The critical vulnerability in the WebP graphics library, which affects many kinds of software products, including all browsers, has made high waves in the IT world over the last two weeks. Since QF-Test also uses this library, we first replaced it in version 7.0.6 and updated the embedded Chrome browser for QF-Driver on Windows in today`s release QF-Test 7.0.7.

In addition, we have a new training format for you: On November 20, 2023, we offer an expert day on the topic “Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications”. In this online training, we will dive deeply into QF-Test and show you how to optimize the interaction with your web application. There will be time for exercises on special topics and your personal questions.

Best regards,
your QFS team

QF-Test maintenance release 7.0.6 & 7.0.7

QF-Test versions 7.0.6 and 7.0.7 are our timely response to the critical security vulnerability in the widely used graphics library WebP. To that end we first updated the library itself (7.0.6) and now upgrade the embedded Chrome browser for QF Driver on Windows to CEF version 117 (7.0.7).

Download QF-Test version 7.0.7
To the Release Notes

For more information about the WebP vulnerability, as well as measures for securing older QF-Test versions please see our blog post
Mitigation of the WebP 0-day vulnerability CVE-2023-4863 in QF-Test.

Save the date: Events in 2023

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
November 6–9, 2023
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants.
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time.

➜ Sign up now

Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

NEW: Online Expert Day
Toolbox for stable component detection of web applications
November 20, 2023, 2 × 2,5 h

“Yesterday my test was still working. What is going on now?”
In this online training, we will dive deeply into QF-Test and show you how to optimize the interaction with your web application. There will be time for exercises on special topics and your personal questions.

➜Details, pricing and registration

Free special webinar
Test the smart way with SmartID
February 5, 2024, 15:30 CET

“SmartID” is a completely new way to address the UI components of your application which we continue to tweak and improve. In this special webinar, we will show you the new feature additions in QF-Test 7 around SmartID and label recognition, and how you can make the most of your tests with them.

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We’ll publish the recording (without the Q&A) afterwards. Special webinar in German: 2024-02-05, 10:30 a.m.

News

mgm technology partners ♡ QFS – It is the anniversary of a milestone in the history of QFS.
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QF-Test in studies- Prof. Dr. Joachim Sauer, head of the Software Engineering/Applied Computer Science course at the Nordakademie relies on QF-Test as a “helpful tool for automating surface tests”. The quick usability is an advantage here. (In German)
➜ Automated software surface tests for higher software quality

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QF-Test 7.0.4

2023-08-30T00:00:00+02:00

Maintenance release 7.04 | special webinar component mapping

Hello dear QF-Test users!

New today: The maintenance release QF-Test 7.0.4 updates the JRE distributed with QF-Test to Temurin version 17.0.8.1, adds support for Eclipse 4.29 as well as JxBrowser 7.34 and fixes a number of smaller bugs.

In addition, we would like to invite you to our next free special webinar “No rocket science – Launch your web tests with QF-Test 7’s new component mapping workflow” on October 9, 2023, 3:30 p.m.: In QF-Test 7 we completely overhauled the recommended workflow for mapping components in web applications. In this special webinar we will show you how to make the most of the new UI inspector and CustomWebResolver node.

Best regards,

your QFS team

QF-Test maintenance release 7.0.4

This maintenance release updates the JRE distributed with QF-Test to Temurin version 17.0.8.1, adds support for Eclipse 4.29 as well as JxBrowser 7.34 and fixes a number of smaller bugs.

Download QF-Test version 7.0.4
To the Release Notes

Save the date: Events in 2023

Free special webinar on October 9, 2023 starting 15:30 CEST
No rocket science – Launch your web tests with QF-Test 7’s new component mapping workflow

In QF-Test 7 we completely overhauled the recommended workflow for mapping components in web applications. In this special webinar we will show you how to make the most of the new UI inspector and CustomWebResolver node.

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We’ll publish the recording (without the Q&A) afterwards. Special webinar in German: 2023-10-09, 10:30 a.m.

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
November 6–9, 2023
4 days, 2 × 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants.
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time.

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Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Software Tool Day
November 23, 2023 in Munich

Come visit us at the booth. We are on site together with our parent company mgm technology partners.

➜ About the event

News

New blog post: “Annotating screenshots with QF-Test” – In this article, we show how to add various annotations to screenshots using QF-Test.
➜ Continue reading
Presentation on data-driven testing at ASQF Net Week (in German) – QF-Test user Ralf Somplatzki (GEBIT Solutions GmbH) uses a concrete example to show how data-driven end-to-end testing with QF-Test can be an alternative to the often linear structure of test suites.
➜ Watch the presentation “Wenn das Daten-Chamäleon der User Story auf den Zahn fühlt”

From our YouTube Channel

Developing software securely is a MUST today. How can this also be ensured in agile projects, how in the interaction of different testing approaches and what risks does the supply chain show? In the video recording of our special webinar “Well tested, but also securely implemented? – Critical security aspects in application development, from approach to vulnerabilities to testing”, the specialists from mgm security partners share their practical experience from many hundreds of software projects.
➜Watch the video now

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QF-Test 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 released

2023-06-23T00:00:00+02:00

QF-Test 7.0.2 | Special webinar: “Critical aspects of secure application development”

Hello dear QF-Test users!

The second maintenance update for the major “dark mode release” QF-Test 7 has been released. Version 7.0.2 contains an important bug fix for session handling while 7.0.1 brought support for ARM Java on macOS as well as Eclipse 2023-06.

In addition, we would like to invite you to our next free special webinar on July 10, 2023, 3:30 p.m.: This time it’s about the critical topic of secure application development. Experts from our sister company mgm Security Partners will shed light on various security aspects, from apporach over vulnerabilities to testing. Take the opportunity to think outside the box and ask live questions. Feel free to invite interested colleagues from development.

Summer greetings,

your QFS team

Register now for free

Free special webinar on July 10, 2023 starting 15:30 CEST
Well tested but also securely implemented? – Critical security aspects in application development, from approach over vulnerabilities down to testing

– Guest presentation from mgm Security Partners, our sister company –

Developing secure software is a must nowadays. We show how this can also be ensured in agile projects, highlight the interaction of different testing approaches, and address supply chain risks. In this webinar, we share our practical experience from hundreds of software projects.

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We`ll publish the recording (without the Q&A) afterwards. Special webinar in German: 10.07.2023, 10:30 a.m.

QF-Test maintenance release 7.0.1 and 7.0.2

The maintenance releases add support for ARM Java on macOS as well as Eclipse / SWT 4.28 alias “2023-06” and fixes a number of bugs.

Download QF-Test version 7.0.2
To the Release Notes

Save the date: Events in 2023

QF-Test Basics: Training via Webinar
November 6–9, 2023
2 x 2,5 hours each

Effective and rapid knowledge transfer in small groups up to a maximum of 8 participants.
Interaction with the trainers and asking questions are possible at any time.

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Would you like a training course which is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

News

New blog post: “Integrating QF-Test with TeamCity in three easy steps” – TeamCity is an important representative of CI/CD tools and QF-Test can be easily integrated with it. We will show you how it works.
➜ Continue reading
New blog post: “I received a license upgrade. What now?”– We show you how to easily update your licenses.
➜Continue reading
Summer party at Lake Starnberg– Together with mgm technology partners we spent some nice hours in great company.
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From our YouTube Channel

In the video recording of our special webinar ”QF-Test 7.0 – these are the highlights you should know!” we will introduce you to the new refreshed user interface and present the other highlights of the latest version.
➜Watch the video now

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QF-Test 7.0 released

2023-04-27T00:00:00+02:00

QF-Test 7.0 officially released!

Hello dear QF-Test Users!

We have been planning, sweating, cursing, crying and laughing – now it is finally done: QF-Test 7.0 is here, the latest and greatest version of QF-Test.

Historically, major QF-Test updates brought support for new GUI technologies. This time, however, the focus is on the experience of using QF-Test itself.

That’s why version 7.0 brings a refreshed UI including a dark mode, a new node for creating a CustomWebResolver for web applications, as well as a visual UI inspector. The SmartID concept was improved in lots of small ways and is now officially released.

Enjoy all the new features and successful testing with QF-Test 7.0,

your QFS team

Download QF-Test version 7.0

Along with this release we created a 3-minute video to showcase the biggest new features: Video QF-Test 7.0

To the Release Notes

Highlights in QF-Test 7.0

The first thing you will notice is our refreshed user interface. We modernized the color scheme and optimized the size of icons and spacing between elements in QF-Test to give everything morebreathing space. In addition, we finally added the long-awaited dark mode, which is easier on the eyes and fits seamlessly into the presentation of your operating system.

SmartID has left the “preview” stage and is now a first-class feature. Component recognition via SmartID is a simple alternative to the component tree. The completely overhauled algorithm for determining the best label of a component is now faster, more robust and more flexible since you can also precisely specify which label of an element is the relevant one.

Using the brand new visual UI inspector you can understand QF-Test’s special perspective on your web or Android application without having to record any component. You can, for example, get useful SmartID suggestions for any component or instantly see the effects of the CustomWebResolver on the component structure.

The configuration of a CustomWebResolver, which has historically been one of the biggest hurdles for testing web applications, is now much more user-friendly and clear. Thanks to a new dedicated node, the creation and administration of CWR rules is simplified and the specified configuration is continuously validated checked to help you avoid errors.

There are many more features to discover in QF-Test 7.0, such as new nodes for logging and built-in templates for frequently used scripts, listed in the Release Notes. Please be sure to pay special attention to the notes on possibly incompatible changes.

Save the date: Events in 2023

Free special webinar on May 8, 2023 starting 15:30 CEST:
QF-Test 7.0 – These are the highlights you should know!

Clear the stage for the latest version QF-Test 7.0! We will introduce you to the new refreshed user interface and present the other highlights.

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For beginners and experts: Join our QF-Test compact courses from June 12 to 15, 2023. Small groups, via webinar.

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News

New blog about SmartID – The next generation of component recognition: component tree maintenance is eliminated, and yet key recognition features can be targeted.
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Wanted: Software Developer with Java experience in Leipzig or Geretsried– We are continuously developing QF-Test and are looking for a Java specialist. Apply now!
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QF-Test 6.0.5 available

2023-03-15T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

with QF-Test 6.0.5 the final update for QF-Test version 6 was released today in oder to support Java 20 and Eclipse / SWT 4.27 alias “2023-03”, fix a number of bugs and prepare the way for parallel operation with QF-Test 7.

Next week, most of our developers are going to attend the JavaLand conference – not only as participants and listeners but also with a talk and our own booth. There we are going to demo our latest and greatest QF-Test version 7, scheduled for release shortly after the conference.

Your QFS team

Java 20 and Eclipse 4.27 are now supported
Some Bugfixes
Preparation for parallel operation with the upcoming QF-Test 7.0

We advise all users to update to this version in due time.

Download QF-Test version 6.0.5

To the detailed Release Notes

Save the date: Events in 2023

JavaLand 2023 fromMarch 21 to 23, 2023 at Phantasialand Brühl, Germany

Visit us at our exhibition booth and listen to our talk Level Up Your Code – OOP-Designtechniken (nicht nur) für Quereinsteiger.

➜About the conference

Free special webinar on June 19 2023 starting 15:30 CEST:
QF-Test 7.0 – These are the highlights you should know!

Clear the stage for the latest version QF-Test 7.0! We will introduce you to the new refreshed user interface and present the other highlights.

➜ Sign up now

For beginners and experts: Join our QF-Test compact courses from June 12 to 15, 2023. Small groups, via webinar.

➜Sign up now

Would you like a training course that is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

News

QF-Test is multilingual – and so are many of its users. In this article we explain how to control the interface language of QF-Test.
➜Continue reading
Please read in the new case study how our customer remoso GmbH, as a provider of ERP software solutions in mobility sector, uses QF-Test to increase test speed while maintaining quality through test automation.
➜To the case study
The case study of B+S Bankensysteme describes how our client migrated critical banking software from Java Swing to the web via WebSwing. Thanks to QFS, he could simply continue using all existing tests seamlessly.
➜To the case study
Students of Prof. José Campos from the University of Lisbon, Portugal have given us feedback on QF-Test as part of their course Verification and Validation of Software.
➜Read the evaluation report

From our YouTube Channel

In the recording of our special webinar What’s in the box?! – Using QF-Test with Docker containers we will introduce you to our QF-Test Docker image and show you how you can use it for your test automation.
➜ Go to the video
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Special webinar: What’s in the box?! – Using QF-Test with Docker Containers

2023-01-18T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users,

We wish you a good start into a successful year 2023 and would like to invite you to attend our next special webinar.

Your QFS Team

Free special webinar on February 6, 2023 about using QF-Test in Docker containers

Secure your seat for our next free special webinar by contacting us via service@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10. The number of seats is limited.

What’s in the box?! – Using QF-Test with Docker containers
Monday, February 6, 2023 from 3:30 PM until 4:30 PM (CET)*

Docker containers are a great option for stable and scalable test environments. We will present the out-of-the-box QF-Test Docker image and how to use it for your test automation.

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Take the opportunity to join and ask your questions live during the webinar. We will publish the recording without questions afterwards.

*Webinar via GoToMeeting. You might want to perform a system check beforehand. German version 2023-02-06, 10:30 AM (CET)

Save the date: Events in 2023

For beginners and experts: Join our QF-Test compact courses from June 12 to 15, 2023. Small groups, via webinar.

Training course in German: March 6 to 9, 2023

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Would you like a training course that is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

JavaLand 2023 fromMarch 21 to 23, 2023 at Phantasialand Brühl, Germany

Visit us at our exhibition stand and listen to our talk “Level Up Your Code – OOP-Designtechniken (nicht nur) für Quereinsteiger”.

➜To the conference

End-of-year review 2022

2022-12-07T00:00:00+01:00

Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year 2023!

Hello, dear users and people interested in QF-Test!

We would like to thank you very much for the pleasant cooperation and your trust in these particularly challenging times.

We look back on an intensive year 2022. In addition to the further development of many core topics of QF-Test, the focus was on the strategic path of our company. The merger with mgm technology partners GmbH opens up new perspectives from which you will certainly also benefit.
After all, we do not want to neglect the aid projects that make such important contributions and which we are once again able to support with our donation budget this year.

We wish you and your families a reflective holiday season and a good start to the New Year.

Best regards,
Your QFS Team

QF-Test maintenance release 6.0.4

This maintenance release comes with many version updates, among them JRE version 8_352, Eclipse / SWT 4.26 alias “2022-12” as well as JxBrowser 7.28. Besides a few bug fixes it also introduces some smaller new features, including an option for prefixing classes when recording SmartIDs or the new rc methods pushOption and popOption.

➜ Download QF-Test 6.0.4 now

Save the date: Events in 2023

Free special webinar on 6 February 2023 from 10:30 a.m.: What’s in the box?! – Using QF-Test with Docker Containers

For stable test automation, an equally stable test environment is essential. In this webinar, we will show you how to use QF-Test’s Docker integration to containerize your test environment.

➜Sign up now

For beginners and experts: Join our QF-Test compact courses from 6-9 March 2023. Small groups, via webinar, modules can be booked individually.

Training course in English: 12-15 June 2023.

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Would you like a training course that is individually tailored to your company? Just send us an email to service@qftest.com.

Javaland 2023 from 21 March 2023 at Phantasialand Brühl, Germany.

Visit us at Javaland and listen to our talk “Level Up Your Code – OOP-Designtechniken (nicht nur) für Quereinsteiger”.

➜To the conference

From our blog

A new QF-Test version has just been released. And you are now wondering if your current license is valid for this version? Here’s how to find out.
➜Continue reading
Lilia Gargouri is head of the mgm Quality Team together with Martin Varendorff. She describes how she found her way to QF-Test what’s important to her in test automation, and her hopes for the closer cooperation between our companies.
➜Read the interview
Please read in the new case study how our customer Scheidt & Bachmann masters the challenge of using within the Robot Framework already established Java UI test cases, including all procedures created in QF-Test.
➜Go to the case study

From our YouTube Channel

In this recording of one of our special webinars you will learn everything about our new SmartID technology.
➜Go to the video
In this video overview we show you how to test your Android application with QF-Test.
➜To the video
In this video we give a short introduction to web testing with QF-Test for beginners.
➜Watch the video now

Free Special Webinar in the End of September – SmartIDs

2022-09-13T00:00:00+02:00

Hello, dear users and people interested in QF-Test!

In this edition of our newsletter, we want to let you know about the following topics:

SmartIDs – Paradigm Shift of Component Recognition in QF-Test
Upcoming QF-Test Training Dates in 2022

Your QFS-Team

1. SmartIDs – Paradigm Shift of Component Recognition in QF-Test

We continue our popular special webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited. You will have the possibility to ask questions.

Thursday, September 29th 2022, 15.30 – approx. 16.30 CEST (German version in the morning)

SmartIDs – Paradigm Shift of Component Recognition in QF-Test

We want to show you the new concept of SmartIDs, which are an alternative way of addressing components. SmartIDs encapsulate relevant information directly in the component ID so that component nodes become optional. The idea is to keep simple things simple and use the full range of information in component nodes only for the tricky cases. This paradigm shift is still under development and deserves its own major release, but in response to the enthusiastic customer feedback on the existing functionality and stability we are making it available now in the form of a – fully supported – preview feature.

Please reserve your seat via service@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

Did you miss one of our special webinars or just want to refresh your memory? We also have a list of recordings of previous special webinars.

2. Upcoming QF-Test Training Dates in 2022

We recommend participating in our QF-Test compact courses in small groups. Due to Covid-19 we currently offer our training courses exclusively via webinar.

November 07-10, 2022, German, by arrangement, English

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you or your company. Under normal circumstances we offer on-site training, but at the moment we primarily do training and consulting via webinar.

Merger with mgm

2022-09-01T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test customers, partners and interested parties,

as of September 1, 2022, we have some big and pleasant news at QFS:

The mgm technology partners GmbH (mgm) from Munich, with whom we are very familiar due to a long-standing and intensive customer relationship, is merging with Quality First Software GmbH and taking it over as a fully-owned subsidiary.

The long-standing cooperation was a very good foundation for the trustful discussions and planning around the merger. For us, the time seems to be exactly right to orient the maintenance and further development of QF-Test for the long term and to implement our technology visions together with an internationally and diversely positioned development company that is so close to our own values and convictions.

For you, nothing will change: with Gregor Schmid and Karlheinz Kellerer as managing directors, the same address, the complete team still on board and an unchanged service portfolio, all existing agreements with you will remain unaffected at their familiar conditions.

About the companies

mgm technology partners

Founded in 1994, mgm currently has almost 900 employees worldwide. Based on current technologies and its own low-code platform solutions, the technology and consulting company develops enterprise applications primarily, but not exclusively, for the commerce, insurance and public sectors. Together with its specialized subsidiaries mgm consulting partners (management consulting for CIO advisory, organizational development and change management), mgm security partners (web application security) and mgm integration partners (SAP process optimization), mgm covers a wide range of digitalization topics. This portfolio is perfectly complemented by QFS as specialists for test automation and quality assurance.

Quality First Software GmbH

QFS will continue to develop, support and distribute its UI testing tool QF-Test, which is established with over 1,400 customers worldwide, with the familiar quality and sustainability. The cross-technology orientation of the product will be further strengthened and at the same time optimized for mgm’s own products, especially the model-based low-code enterprise platform A12.

We are looking forward to the new challenges, the new colleagues, the extended opportunities in a larger organization and to the continued reliable cooperation with all of you!

Best regards,
Gregor Schmid, Karlheinz Kellerer and the QFS team

A special kind of wedding celebration

On August 25, 2022, in bright sunshine, the management of mgm came to meet the QFS teams from Leipzig and the Oberland in person at their office in Geretsried/Gelting – Hamarz Mehmanesh and Steffen Weber from mgm even traveled by bicycle!

Learn more on our company events page

If you have any questions about the changing ownership at QFS, please do not hesitate to contact us.

QF-Test 6.0 officially released!

2022-05-17T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

Wecome to another edition of our newsletter. Today we have some exciting highlights for you in the following topics:

QF-Test Major Release 6.0 with Android, SmartIDs and much more
New Articles and Videos
3. Better Together: User Groups for Talking About QF-Test
Next QF-Test Training Dates 2022
Release Notes for QF-Test Version 6.0

Your QFS-Team

1. QF-Test Major Release 6.0 with Android, SmartIDs and much more

It’s done. QF-Test 6.0 is finally ready for release.

The main headline is support for testing Android applications. The familiar features and concepts of QF-Test can be applied to creating tests for Android applications on virtual and real devices with ease and efficiency.

At least as relevant is the new concept of SmartIDs, which are an alternative way of addressing components. SmartIDs encapsulate relevant information directly in the component ID so that component nodes become optional. The idea is to keep simple things simple and use the full range of information in component nodes only for the tricky cases. This paradigm shift is still under development and deserves its own major release, but in response to the enthusiastic customer feedback on the existing functionality and stability we are making it available now in the form of a – fully supported – preview feature.

The SmartID concept has also paved the way for integration of QF-Test with Robot Framework, letting fans of Robot Framework implement their keywords via QF-Test procedures. The tool integration carried out with a pilot customer will be presented at the RoboCon conference (May 19-20, 2022).

Among the many other improvements, the following stand out: You can now run QF-Test itself with Java 17 for vastly improved display on scaled monitors, QF-Test reports have been revised with a more modern look, screenshots for the run-log are taken of relevant screens only and duration indicators assist in analyzing the time spent during tests. Major version updates like the switch to Groovy 4 or support for testing Java 19 become mere side-notes in the detailed release notes in section 5 below or online.

Get QF-Test version 6.0 here.

Along with this release we created a 3-minute video to showcase the biggest new features in QF-Test version 6.0: Video QF-Test 6.0

Highlights QF-Test Version 6.0

Testing Android applications
SmartIDs for component recognition
Java17, Groovy 4, more modern HTML reports
Run-log with relative execution time and optimized screenshots
Connection to the Robot-Framework

2. New Articles and Videos

Since the last newsletter we have published more articles and videos about QF-Test and the world of software testing. Have a look:

Blog

Videos

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3. Better Together: User Groups for Talking About QF-Test

This is a topic which has been on our minds for some time. Recently, a couple of customers got in touch with us asking for more in-depth exchange with other users of QF-Test – especially with those working with comparable applications and facing similar challenges.

Would you like to participate in some kind of user group? Get in touch at service@qftest.com and let us know the types of applications you’re testing, for example ERP systems.
After the last newsletter, a few interested people have already contacted us about the following topics:

SAP Testing
Testing Angular based Web applications
Java Swing
Electron
Cross-browser Tests
ERP systems

In Switzerland, the Swiss Meetup has been a regular event for over a year now, focusing on the exchange of QF‑Test customers working primarily in the Syrius environment.

4. Next QF-Test Training Dates 2022

We recommend participating in our QF-Test compact courses in small groups.

June 20-23, 2022 via Webinar, German, by arrangement, English

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company usually at your site or the appointment takes place via webinar.

5. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 6.0

New Features

The new Android engine adds support for testing Android applications in an emulator or a real device. See chapter 15 for further information.
Though the embedded JRE of QF-Test is still version 8 – currently at relase 8_332 – QF-Test can now also be started with Java 17 (see command line argument -java <executable>). This provides crisp display on scaled monitors and enables support for plugins that require newer Java versions.
Support was added for testing applications based on Java 19.
In order to reduce the chances of creating screenshots showing sensitive data during a test-run QF-Test now takes screenshots only from relevant monitors that show a window that belongs to QF-Test or a connected SUT. While this default setting is useful for personal workstations it may be preferable to turn it off for dedicated test systems via the new option Limit screenshots to relevant screens.
The HTML report has undergone a major overhaul. Readability is improved thanks to many subtle details with a more pleasant design and screenshots and error messages are shown as an overlay when clicked, including navigation between screenshots.
Report creation can now also be triggered via a new toolbar button in the run-log window.
In reports, the name of a test suite, which can be specified in the ‘Name’ attribute of the root node, is now used in place of the file name of the test-suite. This can be configured in the report creation dialog or in batch mode via the new command line argument -report-include-suitename.
Display of duration indicators for a better understanding of the run-time behaviour of a test-run can be turned on for run-logs via a new toolbar button and the »View« menu. See subsection 7.1.3 and the options Show relative duration indicators and Duration indicator kind for further information.
Activating the new option Create screenshots for warnings causes screenshot creation for warnings in the run-log in addition to those for errors and exceptions.
It is now possible to link nodes in a test-suite to external resources or documents via the @link doctag. Via a right-click the target can then be opened in a browser or the application associate with the file type. See Doctags for reporting and documentation for further information.
Groovy was updated to version 4.
The new parameters warningDelay and errorDelay in the procedure qfs.utils.logMemory in the standard library qfs.qft are used to introduce a short delay in case the warningLimit or errorLimit are exceeded, followed by an additional garbage collection and another check.
The performance and memory consumption of the qfs.qft procedure qfs.utils.xml.compareXMLFiles have been improved.
Display and responsiveness of the highlights in check mode were significantly improved for CDP-Driver and WebDriver connection mode.
The handling of WebComponents using ShadowDOMs and slots has been improved for testing web application in CDP-Driver or WebDriver connection mode (QF-Driver support is still pending): The shadow root node is now accessible as the only child of its host node and slotted nodes are referenced as children of their assigned slot node.
Text retrieval with CDP-Driver connection mode has been greatly improved and the DOM hierarchy is now consistent with other connection modes.
Performance of image checks in headless browsers has been improved.
QF-Test now supports multiple parallel downloads in web-tests with CDP-Driver connection mode.
The new procedure qfs.web.browser.settings.setDirectDownload in the standard library qfs.qft allows to download files directly into the directory provided, suppressing the download dialog. Currently for CDP-Driver connection mode only.
The embedded Chrome browser used for QF-Driver mode has been updated to CEF version 100.
Support for JxBrowser versions 7.23 and 7.24 was added.
The bundled cdp4j library has been updated to version 5.5.0.
The bundled GeckoDriver was updated to version 0.31.0.
The method FrameNode.getFrameElement() was added to the pseudo-DOM API of QF-Test.
Via the parameter consoleOutputValue in the procedures qfs.web.browser.settings.doStartupSettings and qfs.web.browser.settings.setTerminalLogs in the standard library qfs.qft it is now possible to also set the type of the terminal logs.
The embedded UI automation library has been updated to version 0.7.0.
On macOS the occasionally showing message dialogs about Safari browser automation are now handled automatically by QF-Test and no longer block test execution.

Preview Features

The following features are not yet complete, but development has reached a point where they are already of great use and the released functionality can be relied upon without concerns about backwards compatibility.

SmartIDs enable a flexible, easy recognition of components directly from the ‘QF-Test component ID’ without recording component information first. Please see section 5.6 and ‘Component’ nodes versus SmartID for detailed information.
Thanks to the new integration with Robot Framework, QF-Test procedures can be used as Robot Framework keywords.

Bugs Fixed

The mini-installer files for Windows - minisetup.exe and minisetup_admin.exe - can now be run in silent and very-silent mode, similar to the full installation.
QF-Test might crash when replaying hard key events on macOS.
When using split run-logs, the maximum number of screenshots for a run-log was not always respected, if the option Count screenshots individually for each split log was turned off.
The procedure qfs.autowin.acrobat.saveAsText in the standard library qfs.qft now also works for Acrobat Reader version 22.1 and up.
A call of rc.clearTestRunListeners() in a server script in batch mode broke the output resulting from the command line argument -verbose [<level>].
Detection of the Chrome window for semihard clicks has been improved.
For current Opera versions in WebDriver connection mode QF-Test now supports automatic download of the required ChromeDriver version.
The window of an electron application was inadvertently resized upon startup when tested with CDP-Driver connection mode.
Popups were not recognized when testing an Electron application in CDP-Driver connection mode.

Changes that can affect test execution

Support for running Firefox using QF-Driver connection mode, which is limited to Firefox versions 43 and lower, has been deprecated for removal in a future QF-Test version. Please consider using current Firefox versions with WebDriver connection mode instead.
Support for running Internet Explorer, which has officially reached end-of-life, has been deprecated for removal in a future QF-Test version.
Support for testing Opera using WebDriver connection mode has been deprecated for removal in a future QF-Test version. Please use CDP-Driver connection mode instead.
When testing web applications in CDP-Driver or WebDriver connection mode, slottable nodes are no longer referenced as direct children of the WebComponent node, but as children of their assigned slot node. This is unlikely to break existing tests, but if it does, please contact QFS support.
The way QF-Test internally addresses table columns in a Swing JTable was changed from model-based to view-based. This has no effect if table columns or cells are addressed with a textual index @… or %… or if the order of the columns in the table view and model is identical. In case a test based on numeric column indexes &… fails you can either update the column index or restore the previous functionality with an SUT script of the form rc.setOption(Options.OPT_SWING_TABLE_USE_VIEW_COLUMN, false).
The internal API of the UI automation library has been reworked to simplify class names (e.g. “AutomationWindow” became “Window”). If you use the uiauto module directly in your scripts and reference class names directly, you may need to adapt the class names according to the supplied JavaDoc.

Not One, but Two Free Special Webinars in Mai!

2022-04-19T00:00:00+02:00

Hello, dear users and people interested in QF-Test!

In this edition of our newsletter, we want to let you know about the following topics:

Two Free Special Webinars in May
Better Together: User Groups for Talking About QF-Test
Upcoming QF-Test Training Dates in 2022

Your QFS-Team

1. Two Free Special Webinars in May

We continue our popular special webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited. You will have the possibility to ask questions.

Thursday, May 5th 2022, 15.30 – approx. 16.30 CEST (German version in the morning)

Sweet like Nougat, Oreo, and Pie: Testing Android with QF-Test

Monday, May 16th 2022, 15.30 – approx. 16.30 CEST (German version in the morning)

Spring-clean in May: Optimize your test structure and documentation for all stakeholders (colleagues, boss and clients)

Please resevere your seat via service@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

Did you miss one of our special webinars or just want to refresh your memory? We also have a list of recordings of previous special webinars.

2. Better Together: User Groups for Talking About QF-Test

This is a topic which has been on our minds for some time. Recently, a couple of customers got in touch with us asking for more deep conversations with other users of QF-Test – especially with those working with comparable applications on similar challenges.

Would you like to participate in some kind of user group? Get in touch at service@qftest.com and let us know the types of applications you’re testing, for example ERP systems.

In Switzerland, the Swiss Meetup has been a regular event for over a year, for the exchange of QF‑Test customers working primarily in the Syrius environment.

3. Upcoming QF-Test Training Dates in 2022

We recommend participating in our QF-Test compact courses in small groups. Due to Covid-19 we currently offer our training courses exclusively via webinar.

June 20–23, 2022, German
May 02–05, 2022, English

Free Special Webinar on 2022-01-24

2022-01-12T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

At the end of the month we are offering another special webinar on the topic of Dos and Don’ts when Working with QF-Test as a Team and would like to invite you to attend.

For all QF-Test beginners we have recorded the complete tutorial as a video version.

Newsletter content
1. Free Special Webinar on January 24, 2022: Dos and Don’ts when Working with QF-Test as a Team
2. New Airbus Case Study, Blog Articles & Videos
3. Next Training Dates 2022

We wish you a good start into a successful year 2022!

Your QFS-Team

1. Free Special Webinar on January 24, 2022: Dos and Don’ts when Working with QF-Test as a Team

We continue our popular special webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited. You will have the possibility to ask questions.

Monday, January 24, 2022, 14.30 – approx. 15.30 CET (German version in the morning):

Dos and Don’ts when Working with QF-Test as a Team: e.g. Version Management (GIT, SVN), Import, Projects

The advantage of the live webinar is that you get the opportunity to ask questions, compared to the video recording that we publish afterwards.

Reserve your seat via service@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

We use GoToMeeting, here you can run a system check before the first us.

2. New Airbus Case Study, Blog Articles & Videos

Since the last newsletter we have published further articles and videos:

Case Study

Cross-platform GUI regression testing at Airbus

Blog

“Is FX Even Still Alive?” – JavaFX Adopters Meeting 2021

Videos

We have recorded the complete tutorial for you as a video version.

Visit our YouTube channel to subscribe and take a look at our blog.

3. Next QF-Test Training Dates 2022

We recommend participating in our QF-Test compact courses in small groups. Due to Covid-19 we currently only offer our training courses via webinar.

March 14-17, 2022, German
May 02-05, 2022, English

QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.4 Released

2021-12-15T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

In light of current events we would like to inform you that there is no Log4j vulnerability in QF-Test.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.4 Released
2. Preliminary Support for Android Testing
3. Free Special Webinar on January 24, 2022 about Dos and Don’ts when Working in a Team
New Articles and Videos
Next QF-Test Training Dates 2022
Release Notes for QF-Test 5.4

Your QFS Team

This year we had another online “Gathertown” christmas party and like every year we are happy to support local and international social and environmental projects.

We would like to thank our customers and partners for the pleasant cooperation. We wish you and your families Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2022.

Your QFS-Team

1. QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.4 Released

The medium upgrade QF-Test 5.4 adds support for testing applications based on Java 18, the embedded Chrome browser for QF-Driver has been updated to CEF version 95 and Eclipse/SWT 4.22 alias “2021-12” is now supported.

Electron applications can now be addressed via the far superior CDP-Driver connection mode, the options dialog has a search functionality and copy/paste of images is now possible for image check nodes and screenshot logs.

Several more new features and version updates are complemented by various bug fixes, some of which have a slight impact on backwards compatibility as documented in the release notes in section 6 below or online.

Download link for QF-Test 5.4

2. Preliminary Support for Android Testing

This QF-Test release also includes support for Android testing as a preview version.
Android testing can be automated with virtual devices using an emulator as well as with real devices connected via USB.
Test creation follows the same well-known patterns as the other UI technologies including direct recording of test scenarios.
The manual will guide you through the required Android setup steps. Feel free to take a look and please don’t hesitate to request a free trial license.

3. Free Special Webinar on January 24, 2022 about Dos and Don’ts when Working in a Team

We continue our popular special webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited. You will have the possibility to ask questions.

Monday, January 24, 2022, 14.30 – approx. 15.30 CET (German version in the morning)

Dos and Don’ts when Working in a Team: e.g. Version Management (GIT, SVN), Import, Projects

Reserve your seat via service@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

If you missed one of our special webinars or want to “catch up”, you can find here the recordings of former special webinars.

4. New Articles and Videos

Since the last newsletter we have published further articles and videos:

Blog

Bachelor’s thesis

A recently completed bachelor’s thesis on software testing at the University of Applied Sciences Südwestfalen “Software Testing: Comparison of common testing tools” provides good definitions of terms, an overview of software testing methods and error management.

Video

Recording of Special webinar on “Continuous Integration on the Example of Jenkins”

Visit our YouTube channel to subscribe and take a look at our blog.

5. Next QF-Test Training Dates 2022

We recommend participating in our QF-Test compact courses in small groups. Due to Covid-19 we currently only offer our training courses via webinar.

March 14-17, 2022, German
May 02-05, 2022, English

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company normally at your site but at the moment primarily via webinar.

6. Release Notes for QF-Test 5.4

New Features

Support was added for testing applications based on Java 18.
Electron applications can now be tested using CDP connection mode which is far more effective and works without requiring inclusion of the problematic module @electron/remote into the electron application.
The dialog for the option settings of QF-Test now provides search functionality.
It is now possible to copy and paste images from and to QF-Test, most notably for ‘Check image’ nodes and screenshots in a run-log.
‘Mouse event’ nodes with a ‘Modifiers’ attribute of 4, designating a right-button click, are now shown in the tree as “right-click”.
The embedded Chrome browser used for QF-Driver mode has been updated to CEF version 95.
Groovy was updated to version 3.0.9
The JUnit library has been updated to version 5.8.1.
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.22 alias “2021-12”.
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 80, 81 and 82.
Support for JxBrowser 7.20 and 7.21 was added.
For a web application the attribute ‘Check type identifier’ of a ‘Boolean check’ node can now be set to “attribute:” to check for the boolean value of the attribute in the target node.
The new doctag @outputFilter can be used in client starter nodes in order to suppress unwanted messages in the QF-Test terminal. See section 58.2 for details.
If the ‘Default value’ attribute of a ‘Set variable’ is a QF-Test component ID in the form ${id:…}, it is now possible to highlight or jump to the target component by right-clicking and selecting the respective item in the context menu.

Bugs Fixed

The search for unused callable nodes sometimes missed certain references and thus could turn up nodes that were actually still in use.
QF-Test now tries to avoid creating non-daemon threads in the SUT, including implicitly created threads from the RMI sub-system. These threads could prevent a process from terminating completely after closing the last window of the SUT.
Performance and memory consumption have been improved in several places.
The title of a JPanel with a TitledBorder is now correctly retrieved as its feature.
The order of the components in a Swing JSplitPane seen by QF-Test could vary depending on the order of creation and replacement of those components. QF-Test now uses left→right or top→bottom order irrespective of that.
QF-Test now also supports automatic ChromeDriver download for the Google Chrome variants “Dev” and “Canary”.
QF-Test sometimes failed to record events after frame navigation in CDP-Driver mode.
An exception was fixed that could cause failures during document initialization in CDP connection mode.
The “label” attribute of an OPTION element is now taken into account when determining the name of the option.
When a browser window crashes in CDP connection mode, an error is now reported and the window is automatically closed.
Handling of unload dialogs during web tests with CDP-Driver connection mode has been improved.
When running web tests on a headless browser with CDP-Driver connection mode QF-Test no longer attempts to show a temporary Swing dialog for file up- or download. As a result, headless-only web tests with CDP-Driver should now run as batch tests in a container with no X-server at all.
Synchronization with animations in web applications has been improved for CDP-driver connection mode.
By default, console output of Firefox in Webdriver connection mode was redirected to the process’ standard output so that QF-Test could check it for JavaScript errors. Due to the potentially heavy load on CPU and memory this has been turned off and can be re-enabled by setting the parameter consoleOutputValue to 1 in the call to the procedure qfs.web.browser.settings.doStartupSettings in the standard library qfs.qft.

Changes that can affect test execution

An error was fixed in the qftest launch script on Linux. While processing command line arguments with an escaped $-expression in the value of a -variable or -option argument, the $-expression was inadvertently expanded.
Components in a Swing JScrollPane, most notably JTree and JTable, were assigned inconsistent qfs:label extra features.
Testing with Microsoft Edge (legacy) is no longer supported because that version of Edge is generally discontinued. This does not affect support for the current Microsoft Edge browser.
Execution of the ‘Wait for document to load’ step has been fixed and the check for document reload improved. This may lead to errors in places where the testsuite design relied on the malfunction. In such a case it is advisable to examine the affected ‘Wait for document to load’ steps and possibly disable or remove them, or replace them with a ‘Wait for component to appear’ step. Alternatively it is also possible to reinstate the broken version via the option Reset web-document load state during rescan (before 5.4).
For web applications the attributes “aria-checked” and “aria-selected” are now automatically taken into account for ‘Boolean check’ nodes with check type selected or checked.

Free Special Webinar: QF-Test and Continuous Integration Tools

2021-09-01T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

At the end of the month we will be offering our next special webinar on QF-Test and Continuous Integration Tools and would like to invite you to attend.

Your QFS Team

Date: Mon, September 27, 2021 14.30 ‑ approx. 15.30 CEST (German version in the morning)

Title: Everything in flux – Using QF-Test with Continuous Integration Tools on the Example of Jenkins

The advantage of the live webinar is the possibilty to ask questions in comparison to the webinar recording that we will publish afterwards.

Reserve your seat for the next special webinar which is for free via service@qftest.com.

We’re using GoToMeeting, you can do a system check before you use it for the first time.

Further information on our services can be found on training and consulting.

New Blog Articles and Videos

Since the last newsletter we have published further blog posts and videos:

Blog

Videos

Recording of Special webinar on “CDP-Driver for Web Performance Gain”

Visit our YouTube channel to subscribe and take a look at our blog.

Next QF-Test Training Dates 2021

We recommend participating in our QF-Test compact courses in small groups. Due to Covid-19 we only offer our trainings via webinar. As a major innovation, the standard training is also available in French for the first time.

September 20-23, 2021, English
September 20-23, 2021, French
November 08-11, 2021, German

Free Webinar: CDP-Driver Connection Mode

2021-07-01T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

Since the last release to QF-Test version 5.3 we have the new browser connection mode CDP-Driver (Chrome DevTools Protocol).

How the change to the CDP connection mode can succeed, is what we would like to demonstrate in this free special webinar and therefore invite you at short notice for the special webinar on July 15, 2021.

The next special webinar will then take place in the end of September, here we are also looking forward to your participation.

We wish you a good “summer break”!

Your QFS Team

CDP Driver for Web Performance Gain

With the newly added browser connection mode CDP-Driver (Chrome DevTools Protocol) this medium upgrade is a real game-changer for web test automation with QF-Test.

By talking directly to the browser it supports Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera on Windows, Linux and macOS with a performance, stability and feature set formerly only available with QF-Driver for Chrome on Windows. And that’s on top of a massive performance boost of QF-Driver for Chrome with observed speed-up ranging from 10% to over 500%.

Date: Thursday, July 15, 2021 14.00 ‑ approx. 14.30 CEST (German version in the morning)

Title: CDP Driver for Web Performance Gain

Reserve your seat for the next special webinar which is for free via service@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10. You will have the possibility to ask questions.

We’re using GoToMeeting, you can do a system check before you use it for the first time. Further information on our services can be found on training and consulting.

Next Special Webinar in September

Monday, September 27, 2021, 14.30 – approx. 15.30 CEST:

Everything in flux – Using QF-Test with Continuous Integration Tools on the Example of Jenkins

QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.3 Released

2021-05-20T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.3 Released
Again we are a Great Place to Work
3. Free Special Webinar on September 27, 2021 about QF-Test and Continuous Integration
New Blog Articles and Videos
Next QF-Test Training Dates 2021
QF-Test Terms and Conditions Update
Release Notes for QF-Test 5.3

Your QFS Team

1. QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.3 Released

With the newly added browser connection mode CDP-Driver (Chrome DevTools Protocol) this medium upgrade is a real game-changer for web test automation with QF-Test.

The user interface of QF-Test has been cleaned up and streamlined, using a uniform flat look with fewer lines and beautiful new icons that still maintain the existing image language and are immediately recognizable. The HTML manual and tutorial as well as report and test documentation have also received a face-lift.

The update of the Jython integration to fully support international characters is complemented by several more new features and a handful of bug fixes.

Download link for QF-Test 5.3

For these and many other new features and bug fixes see the detailed list of differences between QF‑Test version 5.2.3 and 5.3 in the Release Notes in section 7 of this newsletter or online.

Video QF-Test 5.3

2. Again we are a Great Place to Work

We proudly announce that we are once again among the best employers in Germany – the title being awarded by Great Place to Work.
We would also like to mention that we now have 1,400 clients in 60 countries with 8,500 Licenses. This is another step for QF-Test and for better software quality worldwide.

3. Free Special Webinar on September 27, 2021 about QF-Test and Continuous Integration

We continue our popular special webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited. You will have the possibility to ask questions.

Monday, September 27, 2021, 14.30 – approx. 15.30 CEST (German version in the morning):

Everything in flux – Using QF-Test with Continuous Integration Tools on the Example of Jenkins

Reserve your seat via service@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

If you missed one of our special webinars or want to “catch up”, you can find here the recordings of former special webinars.

4. New Blog Articles and Videos

Since the last newsletter we have published further blog posts and videos:

Blog

Videos

Visit our YouTube channel to subscribe and take a look at our blog.

5. Next QF-Test Training Dates 2021

June 21-24, 2021, German
September 20-23, 2021, English
September 20-23, 2021, French

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company normally at your site but at the moment primarily via webinar.

6. New Terms and Conditions

We would like to inform you about the update of our General Terms and Conditions for QF-Test and the related services. As a common process of maintenance, the agreements have been updated to the current state of the law. You can find the documents on the Terms and Conditions page.

7. Release Notes for QF-Test 5.3

New Features

The newly added browser connection mode CDP-Driver supplements QF-Driver and WebDriver for controlling Chromium based browsers via the Chrome DevTools Protocol. By talking directly to the browser without the intervening WebDriver protocol, speed, stability and feature set of CDP-Driver are on par with QF-Driver (and that’s after the QF-Driver performance boost, see below). In addition, while QF-Driver is limited to Chrome on Windows, CDP-Driver now supports Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera on Windows, Linux and macOS, so this is a real game-changer for web test automation with QF-Test.
The performance of web tests with QF-Driver for Chrome has been significantly improved. Observed speed-up ranges from 10% to over 500%.
The newly added browser connection mode CDP-Driver supplements QF-Driver and WebDriver for controlling Chromium based browsers via the Chrome DevTools Protocol. By talking directly to the browser without the intervening WebDriver protocol, speed, stability and feature set of CDP-Driver are on par with QF-Driver. In addition, while QF-Driver is limited to Chrome on Windows, CDP-Driver now supports Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera on Windows, Linux and macOS, so this is a real game-changer for web test automation with QF-Test.
The user interface of QF-Test has been cleaned up and streamlined, using a uniform flat look with fewer lines and beautiful new icons that still maintain the existing image language and are immediately recognizable. The HTML manual and tutorial as well as report and test documentation have also received a face-lift.
Use of international character sets in Jython scripts is now straightforward. If the new option “Literal Jython strings are unicode (16-bit as in Java)” is turned on, literal strings (explicitly specified string constants like “abc”) in Jython scripts are treated as 16-bit unicode and are thus equivalent to strings in Java and the other QF-Test scripting languages. Please see subsection 12.3.4 for detailed information.
Detection of errors in the browser console has been improved and, depending on the option “How to handle errors in a web application”, they are logged in the QF-Test run-log. Besides, the new procedure qfs.web.browser.settings.setTerminalLogs in the standard library qfs.qft can be used to define if and how messages from the browser console are to be shown in the QF-Test terminal.
The embedded Chrome browser used for QF-Driver mode has been updated to CEF version 89.
The bundled GeckoDriver was updated to version 0.29.1.
Support for JxBrowser 7.14 and 7.15 was added.
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 76.
The quickstart wizard now has its own toolbar button. This – or any other unwanted toolbar button – can now be removed from the toolbar via a right-click popup menu.
The ‘Wait for absence’ node now has a dedicated entry in the »Insert« menu and its logic when applied to sub-items has been simplified: Execution of the node is successful if either the parent component of the sub-item is absent or the sub-item itself.
When running a test with the command line argument -verbose [], QF-Test now expands variables in node names for console output also.
The default setting for the available Java memory for QF-Test has been increased to 1024 MB. The configuration of existing QF-Test installations is not affected.
Sub-items of Swing JComboBox components can now be addressed relative to the JComboBox without requiring identification of the popup list.
The ability to bring windows of the SUT to the foreground when needed and set the input focus is crucial for automated testing. On Linux QF-Test now uses an updated, more reliable method to bring a window on top regardless of desktop settings if the option “Force window to the top” when raising is not deactivated.
Exception messages in the run-log or an error dialog are now displayed using word-wrap to break long lines. This can be turned off via the option “Wrap lines in exception messages”.

Bugs Fixed

Installing a resolver via the generic method resolvers.addResolver() did not work in SUT scripts with the JavaScript language.
The browser zoom level is now reset to 100% when clearing the browser cache.
The procedure qfs.swing.startup.startWebstartSUT now ensures proper quoting of the jnlp argument for use on the command line of Linux systems in order to avoid side-effects from special characters it might contain.
The qfs:label extra feature for elements within a TabPanel of a native WPF application was not determined correctly.
Since QF-Test version 5.2.2 in very special cases elements in a web page were mistakenly considered to be invisible.
QF-Test now runs again on macOS versions older than 10.14.
Fast replay of several mouse clicks onto the same location of a Webswing application could accidentally create double clicks when redirecting events through the browser.

Changes that can affect test execution

Jython issues with character encoding have been reduced and it is now possible to treat Jython literals as 16-bit unicode string which is the natural representation for Java and thus QF-Test. For compatibility reasons the new option “Literal Jython strings are unicode (16-bit as in Java)” is turned off by default if QF-Test encounters an existing system configuration.
Please see subsection 12.3.4 for detailed information about why the option should be turned on and how to trouble-shoot possible issues. Chances are high that your Jython scripts will simply work and string handling will become much cleaner. If not, either undo the option change or fix the resulting incompatibilities. We had to do the latter in only a handful of places in our over 1600 test-suites, some of which date back over 20 years. The section Trouble shooting Jython encoding issues explains the most common pitfalls and of course our support is always there to help.
The default folder name of the Firefox profile when executed in WebDriver connection-mode has been renamed from mozProfile to firefoxProfile and it is now used in place instead of copying it to a temporary directory. This behaviour is now consistent with using QF-Driver but has the side-effect that preferences from one test execution are preserved for the next execution and might have to be overwritten during the next browser start. To restore the previous behavior, set the OPT_WEBDRIVER_COPY_MOZPROFILE option to true before starting the browser.
The procedures in the package qfs.utils.ssh of the standard library qfs.qft and the underlying Jython module ssh have been updated to default to RSA public key authentication with the default private key file /.ssh/id_rsa instead of DSA which is no longer supported by most current ssh servers.
The option “Create compact run-log” is now deactivated by default in interactive mode. Existing system configurations are not affected and the option has no effect in batch mode where compactification is controlled via the command line attribute -compact.

Free Webinar: Intelligent Image Comparison with QF-Test

2021-04-20T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

1. Free Special Webinar on May 06, 2021 about Intelligent Image Comparison with QF-Test
2. New Articles and Videos
3. Next QF-Test Training Dates 2021

Your QFS Team

1. Free Special Webinar on May 06, 2021 about Intelligent Image Comparison with QF-Test

We continue our popular Special Webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited.You will have the possibility to ask questions.

Thursday, May 06, 2021, 14.30 – approx. 15.30 CEST (German version in the morning):

Pixel picking - Intelligent Image Comparison with QF‑Test

Reserve your seat via service@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

2. New Articles and Videos

There is a new study paper about QF-Test, where the Windows application KeePass was tested. “Why do my automated UI tests break?” have you ever asked yourself the same question? A student tried to figure out error categories and unleashed QF-Test on different versions of KeePass “Why do my automated UI tests break?” have you asked yourself the same question? A student tried to figure out categories of errors and unleashed QF-Test on different versions of KeePass.

Since the last newsletter we have published several further videos and blog posts:

Blog

Videos

Visit and subscribe for our YouTube channel and blog!

4. Next QF-Test Training Dates 2021

We recommend to participate in our QF-Test compact courses in small groups. Due to Covid-19 we only offer our trainings via webinar.

June 21-24, 2021, German
September 20-23, 2021, English

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company normaly at your site but at the moment primarily via webinar.

New Year and New Training

2021-01-12T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

We want to thank you for the excellent cooperation during last year and wish you and your families a healthy and successful New Year 2021.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Free Special Webinar on January 21, 2021 about PDF Testing
Next QF-Test Training Dates
New Blog Articles

Your QFS Team

1. Free Special Webinar on January 21, 2021 about PDF Testing

We continue our popular Special Webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited. You will have the possibility to ask questions.

Thursday, January 21, 2021, 14.30 – approx. 15.30 CET (German version in the morning):

PDF Testing with QF-Test – Often PDF documents are the final result of a business process that you can check easily with QF-Test, too.

Reserve your seat via service@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

6. Next QF-Test Training Dates 2021

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face QF-Test compact courses in small groups. We really hope that these training at our site can take place since the last ones unfortunately had to be cancelled due to Covid-19.

Training via Webinar

Due to Covid-19 we have changed our online training a bit and offer it now as a 4 days training with webinar modules (=1 day with 2 x 2,5 hours including 1 hour interactive practice time).

2021 March, 22-25, German
2021 April, 12-15, English

Face-to-face Training at QFS

March 16-18, 2021, WolfratshausenGerman

All prices are net.

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company normaly at your site but at the moment primarily via webinar.

5. New Blog Articles

Since the last newsletter we have published further blog posts:

Blog

Visit our YouTube channel to subscribe and take a look at our blog.

QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.2 Released

2020-11-16T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.2 Released
New QF-Test Pricing Starting January 2021
Free Special Webinar on November 23, 2020 about Webswing Testing with QF-Test
News about JavaFX from the JavaFX Adopters Meeting
New YouTube Videos and Blog Articles
Next QF-Test Training Date
Release Notes for QF-Test 5.2

Your QFS Team

1. QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.2 Released

The medium upgrade QF-Test 5.2 focuses on integrated testing of Java desktop applications that are displayed in a browser using the technologies Webswing or JPro.

Most notable among many version updates are updated support for Chrome 85 in QF-Driver mode on Windows as well as Groovy (3.0.6) and Jython (2.7.2) updates. The life of Mac users is made easier by the Apple notarization of QF-Test for macOS.

Download link for QF-Test 5.2

For these and many other new features and bug fixes see the detailed list of differences between QF‑Test version 5.1.2 and 5.2 in the Release Notes in section 7 of this newsletter or online.

2. New QF-Test Pricing Starting January 2021

We would like to inform you about a moderate increase of about 5% in our QF-Test pricing after 5 years of stability. Changes apply to licenses, add-ons, new subscriptions and maintenance agreements. Existing subscriptions and maintenance agreements will not be affected. New prices will be effective starting January 01, 2021. For further information please contact sales@qftest.com.

3. Free Special Webinar on November 23, 2020 about Webswing Testing with QF-Test

We continue our popular Special Webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited.You will have the possibility to ask questions.

Monday, November 23, 2020 (German version in the morning)

14.30 – approx. 15.30 CET:
Integrated testing of Webswing applications with QF-Test - Uniting two worlds – Webswing brings Java into the browser, QF-Test ensures the quality by interacting with both simultaneously
Further information on our tool partnerhip
Our partner Webswing will show how their solution brings a Java application into the web and we will demonstrate how QF-Test interacts with both – Java and the browser – simultaneously and is therefore the ideal testing solution.

Thursday, January 21, 2021
(German version in the morning)14.30 – approx. 15.30 CET:
PDF Testing with QF-Test -Often PDF documents are the final result of a business process that you can check comfortably with QF-Test, too.

Reserve your seat via service@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

4. News about JavaFX from the JavaFX Adopters Meeting

QFS was invited by Oracle to present our FX experiences at the JavaFX Adopters Meeting on October 14, 2020.

About 50 important players of the FX community met online, mainly but not only from German speaking countries and from a wide range of industries and company sizes. Explanations of Oracle policy and future plans were accompanied by various real-world show-cases. We presented our new integration of QF-Test for testing JPro and Webswing applications.

We would like to draw attention to a meeting in the near future: the JFX Days that take place on November 24 – 25, 2020 organised by Karakun and DLSC.

5. New YouTube Videos and Blog Articles

Since the last newsletter we have published several further videos and blog posts:

Videos

Recording of the special webinar about component recognition
QF-Test and 3rd Party Tools (Integration with other tools)

Blog

Visit our YouTube channel to subscribe and take a look at our blog.

6. Next QF-Test Training Date

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face QF-Test compact courses in small groups.

March 16-18, 2021, Wolfratshausen, German

We really hope that this training can take place since the last ones unfortunately had to be cancelled due to Covid-19.

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company normaly at your site but at the moment primarily via webinar.

7. Release Notes for QF-Test 5.2

New Features

QF-Test now supports integrated testing of Swing and JavaFX applications that are displayed in a browser using the technologies Webswing or JPro. See chapter 17 for an explantion of the concepts and the demo test-suite for Webswing, accessible via the menu »Help«-»Explore example test-suites…«, entry “Webswing SwingSet Suite”.
QF-Test is now notarized by Apple and thus starts on modern macOS systems without showing a warning message.
QF-Test now also supports testing with the Microsoft Edge browser on Linux.
The JRE distributed with QF-Test has been updated to Liberica OpenJDK Version 8_275.
The embedded Chrome browser used for QF-Driver mode has been updated to CEF version 85.
Groovy has been updated to version 3.0.6.
Jython has been updated to version 2.7.2.
Support for JxBrowser 7.11 was added.
The embedded GeckoDriver has been updated to version 0.28.0.
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 72.
Device specifications for many current mobile devices have been added to mobile emulation mode.
The JUnit library has been updated to version 5.7.0.
On Windows systems with a scaled display now starts QF-Driver browsers in compatibility mode so that scaling is transparently handled by Windows and tests work very similar to unscaled mode except for image checks.
It is now possible to specify options on the command line via the argument -option <name>=<value>.
QF-Test command line arguments can now contain “.” and “-” characters in arbitrary places and upper or lower case characters at will.
When testing Java applications, QF-Test can now intercept calls that open a native browser window in order to launch a browser controlled by QF-Test for the given URL. An example is provided in the demo test-suites “CarConfig test project” and “CarConfig JavaFX test project”, accessible via the menu item »Help«-»Explore sample test-suites…«.
The new procedure qfs.utils.waitForClientOutput in the standard library qfs.qft assists in synchronizing with terminal output of the SUT.
Several more node conversions are now possible.
The ‘Server HTTP request’ step now also supports the PATCH method.
The two new procedures qfs.utils.sendKey and qfs.utils.sendText in the standard library qfs.qft can be used to enter text into the currently focused element of the active window.
The ‘No events were recorded’ dialog can now be suppressed via the new option Show message if no events were recorded.
When merging run-logs in batch mode, the command line argument -mergelogs-masterlog [<file>] can now be combined with -mergelogs-mode [<mode>] set to “append”. The appended run-logs will be stored as externalized thus minimizing memory use both during merging and when opening the resulting run-log.
Similar to Jython, script steps for Groovy and JavaScript can now use common exceptions without an explicit import.
When propagating the parameters of a callable node to its callers, there are now explicit choices for whether to add missing parameters, remove extraneous parameters and/or update the sort order.

Bugs Fixed

Opening a run-log with an automatic re-run still in progress could lead to an exception.
Encrypted connections to the QF-Test daemon are now also supported by the external daemon-API.
When generating reports, thumbnail images were created even if -report-thumbnails was not specified.
The ‘Unit test’ step now correctly supports the self.assertEqual call in Jython scripts.
Text input on Swing and JavaFX components was slowed down if a browser embedded into Java was detected.
Event synchronization under heavy load for Swing based applications has been improved.
Text input with single events on a Swing JTextArea now handles newline characters correctly.
Elements of Windows applications may not have been scrolled visible correctly for hard events and image checks.
With a browser in WebDriver mode a failed frame focus switch could lead to a StackOverflowException.
In some cases the MSEdgeDriver was not downloaded correctly.
Checks on elements inside a shadow DOM could not be recorded.
Soft (invisible) hyphen characters are now implicitly ignored.
In some cases, dialog boxes from Electron where displayed empty.
The visibility of JavaFX components embedded in Swing was sometimes not determined correctly.
For SWT version 4.17 on Windows highlight rectangles on Menus were not restored correctly.

Changes that can affect test execution

Testing applications running on Java 7 is no longer supported.
Many procedures in the standard library package qfs.qft.autowin have been deprecated in favor of the much better suited Windows engine.
Due to the updated JRE in the QF-Test installation, graphical elements and graphs in the PDF client may be painted with slightly different anti-aliasing. This can lead to errors in ‘Check image’ nodes. Given that such problems cannot be ruled out for future JRE updates you should set the ‘Algorithm for image comparison’ attribute of affected nodes to “algorithm=similarity;expected=0.98”.

Special Webinar about Component Recognition with Thomas Max

2020-09-08T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

Have a good start after the “summer break”!

We would like to invite you to our latest free QF-Test special webinar in the end of September.

Your QFS Team

Find the keys – UI test automation needs robust component recognition

Component recognition in QF-Test is quite flexible. In addition to standard controls like buttons or checkboxes it also supports complex components (dynamic trees, tables etc.).

This webinar shows the basics of this algorithm and configuration options for Java and Web applications. We will explain how to achieve robust component recognition and provide an outlook on future concepts.

Date: Monday, Sept. 28, 2020 14.30 - approx. 15.30 CEST (German version in the morning)

Title: Find the keys – UI test automation needs robust component recognition

Reserve your seat for the next special webinar which is for free via service@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10. You will have the possibility to ask questions.

We’re using GoToMeeting, you can do a system check before you use it for the first time. Further information on our services can be found on training and consulting.

Upcoming special webinars

Monday, November 23, 2020, 14.30 – approx. 15.30 CET

PDF Testing with QF-Test

QF-Test Medium Version 5.1 Released

2020-07-08T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

QF-Test Medium Version 5.1 Released
Free Special Webinar on September 28, 2020 about Component Recognition
New YouTube Videos and Article
QF-Test Training Dates – “Live” Again
Release Notes for QF-Test 5.1

Enjoy your summer!

Your QFS Team

1. QF-Test Medium Version 5.1 Released

The medium upgrade QF-Test 5.1 focuses on bringing support for embedded browsers – JxBrowser (including version 7), SWT Browser and JavaFX WebView, up to par with that for “normal” browsers. It also comes with support for Java 15, native Electron dialogs and customizable HTML reports. The internal JRE provided with QF-Test has been updated to Zulu OpenJDK 8_252.

Download link for QF-Test 5.1

Video about QF-Test 5.1

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 5.0.3 to 5.1 can be found in the Release Notes in section 5 of this newsletter or online.

2. Free Special Webinar on September 28, 2020 about Component Recognition

We continue our popular Special Webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited.

Monday, September 28, 2020, (German version in the morning)

14.30 – approx. 15.30 CEST:
Find the keys – UI test automation needs robust component recognition
We show you how to achieve this in QF-Test and how we develop our concepts .

Reserve your seat via service@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10. At the end of the session you will have the possibility to ask questions.

3. New YouTube Videos and Article

Since the last newsletter we have published several further videos and an article:

Videos

Article

Functional Testing with QF-Test

Visit our YouTube channel to subscribe and take a look at our blog.

4. Next QF-Test Training Dates – “Live” Again

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face QF-Test compact courses in small groups.

September 29 until October 01, 2020, Leipzig, German
November 10-12, 2020, Wolfratshausen, German

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company at your site.

To save travel time and expenses we offer all our trainings via webinar too.

5. Release Notes for QF-Test 5.1

New Features

Support was added for testing applications based on Java 15.
The JRE ditributed with QF-Test has been updated to Zulu OpenJDK Version 8_252.
Recording and replay of tests for embedded browsers has been significantly improved.
JxBrower is now supported in version 7, embedded into Swing, JavaFX or Eclipse/SWT applications.
Support was added for handling native dialogs in Electron applications.
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 69.
Support for the web framework Qooxdoo has been updated for Qooxdoo version 6.
HTML reports can now be customized via JavaScript in the form of a user.js. See subsection 20.1.4 for details.
The automac module now provides methods for simulating keyboard and mouse events. See chapter 47 for further information.
The root node of a test-suite now also has a ‘Name‘ attribute that is shown in the tree.
The new option Enable ‘Local variable’ attribute by default determines, whether the attribute ‘Local variable’ gets pre-activated in newly created nodes.
The procedure qfs.utils.dragAndDrop in the standard library qfs.qft has a new optional parameter eventDelay to control replay speed.
It is now possible to convert a ‘CSV data file’ node into an ‘Excel data file’ node and vice versa.
Test-suite tabs can be moved left or right using the keyboard shortcuts [Shift-Ctrl-Page up] and [Shift-Ctrl-Page down].

Bugs Fixed

The procedure qfs.web.browser.settings.setLocale now also works for WebDriver connections to Chromium based browsers.

Changes that can affect test execution

Due to the updated JRE in the QF-Test installation, graphical elements and graphs in the PDF client may be painted with slightly different anti-aliasing. This can lead to errors in ‘Check image‘ nodes. Given that such problems cannot be ruled out for future JRE updates you should set the ‘Algorithm for image comparison‘ attribute of affected nodes to “algorithm=similarity;expected=0.98”.
The JRE update can also cause communication problems between QF-Test and the QF-Test license server in case the license server is run with a very old Java version that cannot cope with the key length required for SSL in current Java versions. In that case it is best to update the license server to the current QF-Test version and use its included JRE.
The library jniwrapper is no longer loaded by default because our old jniwrapper version crashes QF-Test on newer JDKs. Modules with native dependencies like autowin have been rewritten to no longer depend on it and all references to jniwrapper have been removed from the standard library qfs.qft.
If you still have script nodes in your test-suites that depend on jniwrapper you should try to reimplement these in order to remove that dependency. Please get in touch with our support if you need help.
As an interim solution you can get such scripts to work again (on older JDKs where jniwrapper does not crash) as follows:
Copy the files from misc/jniwrapper in the QF-Test installation directory to qftest in the QF-Test plugin directory. To locate those directories, open the »Help«-»Info« dialog and look for dir.version and dir.plugin on the ‘System info’ tab.
Add either a Jython server script to your startup sequence with
from com.jniwrapper import DefaultLibraryLoader
from java.io import File DefaultLibraryLoader .getInstance().addPath\ (File(rc.lookup("qftest", "dir.plugin") + "/qftest"))
or the following Groovy variant
import com.jniwrapper.DefaultLibraryLoader
DefaultLibraryLoader.getInstance().addPath (new File(rc.lookup("qftest", "dir.plugin") + "/qftest"))
The ChromeDriver library for old Chrome versions (older than 72) is not bundled wit QF-Test anymore.
Testing applications running on Java 7 ist still supported in this QF-Test version. However, support for Java 7 has been deprecated and will be removed in QF-Test version 5.2.

QF-Test Version 5.0.3 Released

2020-06-17T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

QF-Test Version 5.0.3 Released
Free Special Webinar on July 06, 2020 about Scripting in QF-Test
New YouTube Videos, Blog Articles and Case Study
QF-Test Training Dates
Release Notes about QF-Test 5.0.3

Stay healthy!

Your QFS Team

P.S.: Since mid-Mai our homepage looks more modern.

1. QF-Test Version 5.0.3 Released

This maintenance update adds support for Eclipse / SWT 4.16 alias “2020-06” and fixes a number of bugs.

Download link for QF-Test 5.0.3

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 5.0.2 to 5.0.3 can be found in the Release Notes in section 5 of this newsletter or online.

2. Free Special Webinar on July 06, 2020 about Scripting in QF-Test

We continue our popular Special Webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited.

Monday, July 06, 2020 (German version in the morning), 14.30 – approx. 15.30 CEST:

Travelling to Treasure Island – recover the hidden treasures in QF-Test via scripting: extending functionality via Jython, Groovy and JavaScript

Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10. At the end of the session you will have the possibility to ask questions.

3. New YouTube Videos, Blog Articles and Case Study

Since the last newsletter we have published several further videos and articles:

Video

Blog

Case study

QF-Test over Jenkins/Docker

Visit our YouTube channel to subscribe and take a look at our blog.

4. QF-Test Training Dates in 2020

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face QF-Test compact courses in small groups. The next training will take place online due to Corona restrictions.

June 29 until July 02, 2020 (Due to Corona), Online, English
September 29 until October 01, 2020, LeipzigGermanNovember 10-12, 2020Wolfratshausen, German

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company at your site.

To save travel time and expenses we offer all our trainings via webinar too.

5. Release Notes for QF-Test 5.0.3

New Features

QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.16 alias “2020-06”.
The included jsch.jar library used by the qfs.utils.ssh package in the standard library qfs.qft has been updated to version 0.1.55 in order to add support for modern Linux systems like Ubuntu 20.

Bugs Fixed

The included WebP image compression library was rolled back to version 1.0.0 to avoid incompatibilities.
Component recognition might have failed when web components had non-integer sizes.
In rare cases calling rc.callProcedure inside the parameters of a ‘Procedure call‘ node could lead to the global variables in the variable stack getting lost.
The special syntax ${qftest:engine.} that can be used to determine the engine of a component now also works if contains a ‘@’, ‘%’ or ‘&’ character.
Selecting a single value in a run-log’s error list and using “Set value as filter” twice caused an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.

Major Version QF-Test 5.0 Released

2020-02-06T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

It’s time to move on: QF-Test 5.0 is a major step forward – not just with its new look and support for native Windows applications, but also with other enhancements that make automated testing more convenient and reliable.

After an intense period of optimizing and fine tuning the many details of Windows GUI specific challenges, the new testing functionality “now really feels as a natural part of QF‑Test” as Greg, QFS founder and technical lead, recently stated.

We all – and specifically the Windows project team members – are happy to finally release this new functionality into your hands as our valued customers. Hopefully it will serve well either as extension of existing scenarios or for initiating new testing projects.

Please let us know your thoughts and experiences, be it on the modernized look, on Windows testing or about the new ‘Comment’ node which was an often requested feature.

Due to our very high level of test automation QF-Test 5.0.0 should be as stable as any dot‑zero release can be – or more so ;-)

Last but not least: For licenses with four UI technologies the fifth technology is free of charge.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Highlights of QF-Test Version 5.0
Free Special Webinar on March 09, 2020 about Variables in QF-Test
QF-Test Training Dates 2020 – also available in Leipzig now
Release Notes about QF-Test 5.0

Your QFS Team

P.S.: We have published a new video about Scripting in QF-Test (advanced) and a blog posting about Debugging Jython Scripts since the last newsletter.

1. Highlights of QF-Test Version 5.0

Download-Link for QF-Test 5.0

New Engine for Windows applications
Modernized User Interface of QF-Test
Tests with Java 14
Test-suites with comments Comment node

For licenses with four UI technologies the fifth technology is free of charge.

The detailed list of differences between QF‑Test version 4.7.2 to 5.0 can be found in the release notes in section 4 of this newsletter or online.

2. Free Special Webinar on March 09, 2020 about Variables in QF-Test

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.7.2

In this release we completely re-wrote the manual chapters for web testing and especially the use of the central procedures qfs.web.ajax.installCustomWebResolver.
Also included are support for Eclipse/SWT 4.14 alias “2019-12”, updates for the latest browsers like Microsoft Edge 80 or Opera 64 and 65 as well as some bug fixes.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.7.1 to 4.7.2 can be found in the Release Notes in section 5 of this newsletter or online.

We continue our popular special webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited.

Date | Content |March 09, 202014.30 – approx. 15.30 CET: Stay flexible – Master QF‑Test variables efficiently: global or local, dynamically generated or out of the application, from a data base or via Excel…

The German version will take place in the morning.

Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10. At the end of the session you will have the possibility to ask questions.

3. QF-Test Training Dates 2020 – also available in Leipzig now

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face QF-Test compact courses in small groups. The trainings will take place in Wolfratshausen and for the first time in Leipzig due to high interest of customers from Northern Germany.

Date | Place | Language |March 03-05, 2020LeipzigGermanJune 16-18, 2020WolfratshausenGermanSeptember 22-24, 2020LeipzigGermanNovember 10-12, 2020WolfratshausenGerman

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company at your site.

To save travel time and expenses we offer all our trainings via webinar too.

4. Release Notes for QF-Test 5.0

This video gives you a quick overview on Windows testing with QF-Test!

New Features

With the new Windows engine QF-Test can now test native Windows applications.
Support was added for testing applications based on Java 14.
The new ‘Comment‘ node can be used to improve the structure and readability of test-suites and run-logs.
It is now possible to download a file via the new ‘Save response to file’ attribute of the ‘Server HTTP request’ node.
A package for Windows applications has been added to the standard library qfs.qft.
On Windows 10 QF-Test is now correctly displayed at scaled high resolution displays.
In the manual the chapter Web testing has been revised and a section (subsection 45.1.3) describing the procedure qfs.web.ajax.installCustomWebResolver of the standard library has been added.
The option Show message dialog after now has a setting to show a message dialog also when a test run finishes successfully.
If the result dialog gets shown after a search the search dialog is now closed automatically.
The new procedure qfs.util.click in the standard library qfs.qft can be used to click at an arbitrary position on the screen.
You can now create an electron start sequence in the quickstart wizard that automatically detects the required ChromeDriver.
When copying a ‘Procedure call‘, ‘Test call‘ or ‘Dependency reference‘ node the name of the target node is now also copied as text to the clipboard.
The bundled GeckoDriver has been updated to version 0.26.0.
On Windows tests with the Microsoft Edge 78 and newer are also possible in headless mode.
QF-Test supports now Opera 66 with Operadriver 79.0.3945.79.
The new variable engine.$(componentId) in the qftest special group makes it possible to find out which GUI-engine a component belongs to.
The project tree view in QF-Test now uses a natural sort order, respecting indexes and cases.
Data for several new mobile devices was added to the Mobile Emulation setup in the quickstart wizard.

Bugs Fixed

An image might have been removed from the run-log in low-memory situations.
Fixed a sporadic exception that could appear when creating a test-suite from a run-log.
‘Finally‘ nodes inside a ‘Try‘ now get executed even when an instant rerun gets triggered from within the ‘Try’ node.
ImageWrapper methods now log warnings whenever the method fails.
In very rare cases the [Ctrl] key might have stayed in pressed state after finishing replay.

QF-Test Version 4.7.2 Released and Christmas Greetings

2019-12-12T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

We would like to thank you for the great cooperation this year!

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

QF-Test Version 4.7.2 Released
Free Special Webinar on March 09, 2020 about Variables in QF-Test
New YouTube Videos and Blog Articles
QF-Test Training Dates in 2020
Release Notes about QF-Test 4.7.2

We wish you happy holidays and a peaceful time with your families.

Your QFS Team

P.S.:

QFS again donates to organizations with an ecological or social focus that are well known to us like Globolab or bicycles in East Africa. This year every QFS employee has an additional charity budget to assign personally.

Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year 2020!

1. Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.7.2

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.7.2

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.7.1 to 4.7.2 can be found in the Release Notes in section 5 of this newsletter or online.

2. Free Special Webinar on March 09, 2020 about Variables in QF-Test

We continue our popular special webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited.

Date | Content |March 09, 2020
(German version in the morning)14.30 – approx. 15.30 CET: Stay flexible – Master QF‑Test variables efficiently: global or local, dynamically generated or out of the application, from a data base or via Excel…

Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10. At the end of the session you will have the possibility to ask questions.

3. New YouTube Videos and Blog Articles

Since the last newsletter we have published several further videos:

Visit our YouTube channel to subscribe and take a look at our blog.

4. QF-Test Training Dates in 2020

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face QF-Test compact courses in small groups. The trainings will take place in Wolfratshausen and for the first time in Leipzig due to high interest.

Date | Place | Language |March 03-05, 2020LeipzigGermanJune 16-18, 2020WolfratshausenGermanSeptember 22-24, 2020LeipzigGermanNovember 10-12, 2020WolfratshausenGerman

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company at your site.

To save travel time and expenses we offer all our trainings via webinar too.

5. Release Notes for QF-Test 4.7.2

New Features

The chapters Web testing and Web in the manual were rewritten from scratch. The description of the central procedure qfs.web.ajax.installCustomWebResolver can now be found in subsection 45.1.3.
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.14 alias “2019-12”.
QF-Test now supports tests with Opera 64 and 65.
QF-Test now also supports Microsoft Edge version 80 and newer.

Bugs Fixed

Extending a lease from the QF-Test license server could cause delays in test execution in case of temporary networking issues.
Fixed a problem with setting a KeyOption via the scripting API.
Filtering for empty values in the search result dialog could cause an exception.
The bin directories of QF-Test itself and the JRE that QF-Test runs with are no longer visible on the environment variable PATH that the SUT sees when started from QF-Test.
Printing a test-suite could sometimes cause an exception.
When exporting the error list or some other search result for a run-log some node names were not exported.
XPath expressions with “-characters now work correctly.

News around QF-Test

2019-10-14T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test Version 5.0 isn’t far anymore. You will then be able to test your native Windows applications (Win32, .NET, Windows Forms, WPF, Windows Apps, QT under Windows,…) with QF-Test.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Free Special Webinar on November 4, 2019 about CustomWebResolvers
New QF-Test Training Dates in 2020
New Blog Articles

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

P.S.: Take a look at our updated jobs page.
We are searching for employees in Wolfratshausen and Leipzig where our last summer event took place.

1. Free Special Webinar on November 4, 2019 about CustomWebResolver

We continue our popular special webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited.

Date | Content |November 04, 2019
(German version in the morning)14.30 – approx. 15.30 CET: The golden interface to our web application – recognize your web components with the CustomWebResolver

Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10. At the end of the session you will have the possibility to ask questions.

2. New QF-Test Training Dates in 2020

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face QF-Test training at our site (compact course) in small groups. The trainings will take place in Wolfratshausen and for the first time in Leipzig due to high interest.

Date | Place | Language |March 03-05, 2020LeipzigGermanJune 16-18, 2020WolfratshausenGermanSeptember 22-24, 2020LeipzigGermanNovember 10-12, 2020WolfratshausenGerman

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company at your site.

To save travel time and expenses we offer all our trainings via webinar too.

3. New Blog Articles

Since the last newsletter we have published several further blog articles:

Visit our YouTube channel to subscribe and take a look at our blog.

Medium Upgrade QF-Test 4.7 Released

2019-07-29T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.7.0 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.7
Next QF-Test Training Date and free Special Webinar
New Blog Articles and YouTube Videos
Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.7.0

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

P.S.: QFS on the road, sporty at the Alpine Run 2019 and at the fair myfuture! Wolfratshausen 19.

1. Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.7

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.7.0

Support for Java 13
Support for Electron 6
Support for OpenWebStart
Embedded Chrome browser updated to CEF 73
Support for Opera up to version 62

The detailed list of changes from QF-Test version 4.6.0 to 4.7.0 can be found in the Release Notes in section 4 of this newsletter or online.

Users with a valid maintenance contract can use this version without updating their license. Without maintenance the upgrade needs to be purchased but can be tried until August 31 with a license for QF-Test version 4.6. The preview for the upcoming QF-Test Windows engine requires a trial license in either case.

2. Next QF-Test Training Date and free Special Webinar

Training at our site

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face QF-Test training at our site (compact course) in small groups.

Date | Language |October 15-17, 2019German

Free Special Webinar

We continue our popular special webinars. The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited.

Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10. At the end of the session you will have the possibility to ask questions.

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

To save travel time and expenses we offer all our trainings via webinar too.

3. New Blog Articles and YouTube Videos

Since the last newsletter we have published several further blog articles:

Visit our YouTube channel to subscribe and take a look at our blog.

4. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.7.0

New Features

Testing of Java 13 based SUTs is now supported.
Support was added for Electron 6.
Support was added for OpenWebStart.
The embedded Chrome browser used for QF-Driver mode was updated to CEF version 73.
The Opera browser is now supported up to version 62 which uses a different scheme for the associated WebDriver.
For web testing on Windows in WebDriver mode, display scaling is now taken into account at Windows level as well as for browser-based zooming.
The new method rc.getPropertyGroupNames lists the names of non-special property groups for which values are bound.

Bugs Fixed

The profile directory for testing with Microsoft Edge had the wrong name.
Closing a popup window could crash the Opera browser.
Text input for Microsoft Edge was always positioned at the end of the field.
A possible deadlock in Internet Explorer when loading resources for a web page was fixed.
Stopping a browser controlled via WebDriver could sometimes cause an (otherwise harmless) error message in the QF-Test terminal.
When using a custom ItemResolver for JavaFX clicks to the center of the item were not replayed correctly.
On Linux SWT instrumentation was performed even when not required.

Medium Upgrade QF-Test 4.6 Released

2019-06-18T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,
QF-Test 4.6.0 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.6
Next Training Dates
New Blog Articles and YouTube Video
Support Form
Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.6.0

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

1. Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.6

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.6.0

Support for Opera browser
Support for new Microsoft Edge browser based on Chromium
Support for SWT 4.12 alias 2019-06
Preview: Testing native Windows applications

The detailed list of changes from QF-Test version 4.5.2 to 4.6.0 can be found in the Release Notes in section 5 of this newsletter or online.

Users with a valid maintenance contract can use this version without updating their license. Without maintenance the upgrade needs to be purchased but can be tried until July 31 with a license for QF-Test version 4.5. The preview for the upcoming QF-Test Windows engine requires a trial license in either case.

2. Next Training Dates

Training at Our Site

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face QF-Test training at our site (compact course) in small groups. Here are all dates for 2019.

Date | Language |July 02-04, 2019GermanOctober 15-17, 2019German

Training via Webinar

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our trainings via webinar:

Date | Training via webinar | Price |time by arrangementCompany webinar training
(exclusively for your company)individual offer

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

3. New Blog Articles and YouTube Video

Since the last newsletter we have published several further blog articles:

Visit our YouTube channel to subscribe and take a look at our blog.

4. Support-Form

Another new feature is our support form referenced directly from QF-Test with fields that help us answering your support questions more efficiently. You can find this link in QF-Test via “Help” → “Contact the support team…”.

5. Release Notes for QF-Test 4.6.0

New Features

QF-Test now supports testing web applications in Opera browser on Windows, macOS and Linux.
QF-Test now also supports the new Microsoft Edge browser based on Chromium.
Support was added for Eclipse/SWT version 4.12 alias “2019-06”.
Via the new methods print and println that were added to the qf it is now possible to print messages directly to QF-Test’s terminal from both ‘Server script‘ and ‘SUT script‘ nodes, irrespective of whether the SUT output gets redirected or not and whether there’s a RunContext available or the code is part of a resolver during recording.
The new command line argument -license.waitfor allows waiting for a QF-Test license to become available during startup.
For better conformance with regulations for protection of personal data the licenseserver.log file written by the QF-Test license server now contains hashes instead of user name, host name or IP address. This can be turned off via the new command line argument -licenseserver.loghashentries=false.
A “mouseButton” parameter was added to the various clickAtImage procedures in the qfs.autoscreen package of the standard library qfs.qft.
The new shortcut [Shift-Ctrl-Right] can be used in the parameters table of ‘Procedure call‘ nodes to quickly create a forward – i.e. x → $(x) – of the current variable value for the selected table rows.
The embedded JUnit Jupiter library was updated to version 5.4.2.

Bugs Fixed

Importing procedures from large test-suites could lead to an OutOfMemoryError.
Closing QF-Test in check recording mode without killing the SUT process would leave the SUT in a completely unusable state.
The command line argument -killRunningInstances could inadvertently terminate QF-Test processes on other machines in the local network provided those were started with -allowkilling.
Auto-saving test-suites could accidentally trigger re-compression of images. For test-suites with many or large images this could slow down QF-Test noticeably.
Reading the license file from a slow network drive could occasionally fail.
Opening a test-suite in Windows explorer via the context menu of the suite tab failed in case the file name contained spaces.
In rare cases waiting for a component during SUT startup could trigger a ClientNotConnectedException instead of the expected ComponentNotFoundException.
The procedure qfs.autowin.acrobat.saveAsText was updated for Acrobat version 19.12.20034.1161 and newer.
Variables bound in the data driver of a ‘Test-step’ were lost when using “continue from here” inside the ‘Test-step‘.
Output of the -licenseserver.dump* batch commands was missing information for the JavaFX engine. In addition to fixing that, information about Windows engine licenses was added, the “AWT” columns were renamed to “Swing” and information for engines that are not available in the server license is no longer displayed. These changes all apply to the interactive license administration tool as well.
Closing a popup window in Firefox or closing a browser tab in any WebDriver controlled browser could sometimes cause the entire SUT to terminate.
Frames in a popup window were not recognized correctly if the browser was connected via WebDriver.
Performance for web tests has been improved, for both QF-Driver and WebDriver connection modes. The effects are very dependent on the specific web application.
A workaround for an Electron bug now allows testing with current ChromeDriver versions.
Arguments passed to an Electron application were accidentally prefixed with “—”.
Electron applications without native menus are now handled correctly.
Cleanup of browser process has been improved even in case a browser crashes at startup.
Original third party cookie settings were not always restored correctly after closing a browser.
In a web application ‘Fetch text‘, ‘Fetch index‘ and ‘Fetch geometry‘ nodes could fail with an internal error when trying to determine the value while the target node got dynamically removed from the DOM. Now the operation is retried instead.
Navigation to an anchor within the same page in JXBrowser is now handled correctly.
Event replay for JavaFX is now more resilient against unexpected window focus changes on Linux, especially for menu item selections.

Early Access for Windows Applications

2019-04-25T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Early Access for QF-Test/win
Free Special Webinar on May 06, 2019
Great Place to Work 2019
QF-Test Blog and new YouTube Videos

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

1. Early Access for QF-Test/win

We have reached the development stage of QF-Test for testing Windows applications where we’d like to get some feedback of you, kind users.

Basically things should work similar to Java and Web testing with QF-Test.

PDF of the manual chapter “15 Testing native Windows applications”

Just download the snapshot version here and try it:

Installer for Windows QF-Test-5.0-ea.exe or
Self-extracting 7z archive QF-Test-5.0-ea-sfx.exe

Download QF-Test

The self-extracting zip archive can be unpacked independently in parallel to your productive QF‑Test installation without interfering (see also manual chapter 1.2.2).

2. Free Special Webinar on May 06, 2019

We continue our popular special webinars: The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited.

Date | Content |May 06, 201914:30 – approx. 15:30 CEST: Small intervention – big effect: How to write my own resolvers in QF-Test to recognize my components more smartly?
German version in the morning

Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10. At the end of the session you will have the possibility to ask questions. With your attendance you accept that the recording of the webinar may be published on YouTube and other public channels afterwards.

We recommend to participate in the next face-to-face QF-Test training at our site (compact course) in small groups. Here are all dates for 2019.

Date | Language |July 02-04, 2019GermanOctober 15-17, 2019German

3. Great Place to Work 2019

Besides the award as best employer in the ITC industry, Quality First Software has also won the competition of Great Place to Work as best employer in Bavaria 2019 in the category “small” companies.

4. QF-Test Blog and new YouTube Videos

QF-Test Blog

We have a new blog with mainly technical topics about QF-Test. Please feel free to leave a comment in one of our already existing blog articles and to tell us your topic wishes.

New YouTube Videos

Since the last newsletter we have published a further video on YouTube:

Visit our YouTube channel and subscribe.

Webinar especially for QF-Test version 4.5 with Pascal Bihler

2019-03-25T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

Have you already discovered the new features in QF-Test 4.5? We would like to invite you to our next special webinar “What’s new in QF-Test Version 4.5 Mobile Emulation Mode, Electron testing etc.”. The webinar is free, places are limited.

Date | Content |April 01, 201914:30 – approx. 15:00 CEST: What’s new in QF-Test version 4.5? Mobile Emulation Mode, Testing Electron etc.
German version in the morning

Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10. You will have the possibility to ask questions.

QFS is one of Germany’s best employers in ITC 2019

We are pleased to announce the first place in the nationwide competition “Great Place to Work” in the category “small” ICT companies (less than 50 employees). In 2018, we were also at the top when we first participated on this stage. The repeated success shows us that the QFS team is very satisfied with the corporate culture and the way to the future looks brighter then ever! Plamen Vesselinov and Martina Schmid were delighted to receive the award for QFS on March 13, 2019 in Munich.

Your QFS Team

Medium Upgrade QF-Test 4.5 Released

2019-02-14T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,
QF-Test 4.5 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.5
New QF-Test Videos on YouTube
Free Special Webinar and next QF-Test Training Dates
Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.5
Changes that can affect test execution

♥Happy Valentine’s Day♥ and best regards,
Your QFS Team

1. Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.5

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.5

Support for Electron applications
Mobile Emulation in Quickstart Wizard with support for new devices
SWT without instrumentation
Support for Java 12

The following video gives a brief overview over the new QF-Test features as an extra service.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test versions 4.4.2 and 4.5 can be found in the Release Notes in section 4 of this newsletter or online.

Users with a valid maintenance contract can use this version without updating their license. Without maintenance the upgrade needs to be purchased but can be tried until March 31 with a license for QF-Test version 4.4.

2. New QF-Test Videos on YouTube

Since the last newsletter further videos have been published on YouTube:

What’s new in QF-Test version 4.5?
Special Webinar: Component recognition in QF-Test
Tutorial Web: Chapter 12 Writing a procedure (Web)

You may want to subscribe to our YouTube channel.

3. Free Special Webinar and next QF‑Test Training Dates

Special Webinar (free of charge)

We continue our popular special webinars: The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited.

Date | Content |April 01, 201914:30 – approx. 15:00 CEST: What’s new in QF-Test version 4.5? Mobile Emulation Mode, Testing Electron etc.
German version in the morning

Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10. You will have the possibility to ask questions. With your attendance you accept that the recording or parts of the webinar may be published on YouTube and other public channels afterwards.

Training at our site (Wolfratshausen, Germany)

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face QF-Test training at our site (compact course) in small groups. Here are all dates for 2019.

Date | Language |March 12-14, 2019GermanJuly 02-04, 2019GermanOctober 15-17, 2019German

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

To save travel time and expenses we offer all our trainings via webinar too.

4. Release Notes for QF-Test 4.5

New Features

Via its web engine QF-Test now supports testing of Electron applications. See subsection 1.1.2 about supported Electron versions and chapter 16 for further information about setting up and running Electron tests.
The Quickstart Wizard has been extended to create setup sequences for Mobile Browser Emulation and the selection of supported mobile devices has been updated and extended.
Eclipse/SWT applications no longer require instrumentation of the SWT plugin (except for older SWT versions on Linux) which also greatly simplifies testing of WebStart based or other non-standard SWT applications. See the option Connect without SWT instrumentation and section 43.3 for further information.
Testing of Java 12 based SUTs is now supported.
Performance has been improved in several areas including startup of QF-Test itself and of web browsers, Jython initialization, resolvers and event replay and synchronization, the latter especially for web. The impact varies between barely noticeable and almost twice as fast depending on available CPUs and application details of the SUT.
Images and screenshots in test-suites and run-logs are compressed more effectively using the WebP format. To ease the transition QF-Test 4.4 already supports reading respective files. This version makes WebP the default, configurable via the option Compress images in run logs and test suites. Simply loading and saving a test-suite does not change the format of embedded images so as not create too much noise in versioning systems. However, test-suites can be transformed via a QF-Test batch call with the command line argument -compress.
The ability to bring windows of the SUT to the foreground as needed and set the input focus is crucial for automated testing. On Windows QF-Test now uses a new, very reliable method to bring a window on top if the option Force window to the top when raising is not deactivated.
New entries were added to the context menu for test-suite tabs in the QF-Test workbench view: »Copy file path to clipboard« and »Show in explorer/finder/file manager«.
For processes started from QF-Test it is now possible to access output to the standard output and standard error streams individually via ${client.stdout.} and ${client.stderr.}. Combined output remains available via ${client.output.}.
Mutual conversion operations between ‘Start process‘ and ‘Execute shell command‘ have been added to the context menu for tree nodes. These are especially useful because they take care of the conversion between the table with individual arguments and quoted arguments in a single command line.
The new procedure qfs.shellutils.exec in the standard library qfs.qft is a convenient shortcut for running a command, waiting for it to finish and storing the output in a variable.
The embedded Selenium WebDriver framework was updated to version 3.141.59, ChromeDriver to version 2.46 (with support up to Chrome version 73) and GeckoDriver to version 0.24.0 (for Firefox 60esr and higher, currently up to version 65).
The qfs.utils.email.sendEmail procedure in the standard library qfs.qft now supports SMTP over SSL.
It is now possible to fetch the whole text of a PDF page via a ‘Fetch text‘ node.

Bugs Fixed

The context help menu item »What’s this?« now works again for the ‘Start web engine’ node and its attributes.
In Firefox an unexpected dialog could lead to a NoAlertPresentException. This has been fixed for Firefox 63 and up – older Firefox versions ignore the respective WebDriver setting.
In QF-Test version 4.4.2 on Linux systems automatically setting the input focus was broken for Eclipse/SWT applications running in GTK2 mode.
The rc.checkEqual method now works correctly again when comparing numbers of a different kind, e.g. integers, doubles and BigDecimals.
The procedure qfs.utils.xml.compareXMLFiles in the standard library qfs.qft might have missed differences in attributes.
The ‘enabled’ check for a JavaFX MenuItem now correctly identifies the disabled state.
When switching from a browser to another application in check mode, the check highlight did not disappear reliably.
QF-Test no longer implicitly sets the environment variable MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 which causes Firefox to always start a new browser process instead of opening a new tab in an existing one. This legacy setting was formerly used for testing applets.

5. Changes that can affect test execution

Setup sequences for web applications created with the Quickstart Wizard include a call to the procedure qfs.web.ajax.installCustomWebResolver which tries to detect the AJAX framework in use and install a matching resolver. If no pre-built resolver matches, a minimal generic resolver is installed for which the default settings were changed in QF-Test 4.5 so that DIV and SPAN nodes are now ignored and removed from the component hierarchy. This change does not affect any existing setup sequences but should be kept in mind in case the Quickstart Wizard is used to create a new setup sequence for a web application with existing tests. In such a case, simply set the parameter ignoreTags back to the empty value in the generated installCustomWebResolver procedure call.
On Linux systems Eclipse/SWT applications with SWT versions 4.3 through 4.9 can be run either in GTK2 or GTK3 mode. In QF-Test version 4.3 support was added for GTK3 with SWT versions 4.6 and higher. Until now, however, startup sequences created by the Quickstart Wizard used to include a sequence that sets the environment variable SWT_GTK3 to 0 which causes all SWT versions that support GTK2 to fall back to that version.
Starting with QF-Test 4.5 this environment variable setting is ignored. It has been replaced with the public option Preferred GTK version for SWT (Linux only) which can be set to “2” or “3” or left empty to use the default for the respective SWT version.
Unfortunately SWT with GTK2 has become unstable on newer Linux systems and can crash under heavy load which is not uncommon when driven by QF-Test at full speed. A fix for this is to turn on XSync, an option specific to X11 that causes X11 events to be synchronized. This can have a performance impact however, so if you need to run your SWT application with GTK2 and it has been running stably so far you can deactivate the option Activate XSync for SWT with GTK2 (Linux only).
The connection between QF-Test and the SUT is now established via the loopback interface (localhost) by default. In the rare case that QF-Test needs to control an SUT on another host the command line argument -serverhost can be used.

Special Webinar with Ute Erler

2019-01-09T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

Happy New Year 2019!

To pass the time until the next release of QF-Test version 4.5, we would like to invite you to our next QF-Test Special Webinar free of charge in January.

Dependencies are a kind of magic where all test setup and cleanup is handled automatically.

Please see also the announcement video on YouTube.

It’s like magic – Dependencies in QF‑Test: Smart management of test preconditions and global error recovery

You will learn about a very powerful QF-Test feature. Our trainer will show how to manage test preconditions and introduce global mechanisms for error and exception handling. Furthermore dependencies are indispensable for the execution of tests in daemon mode.

Date: January 28, 2019: 16.00 – approx. 17.30 CET (German version in the morning)

Title: It’s like magic - Dependencies in QF-Test: Smart management of test preconditions and global error recovery

Reserve your free virtual seat for the next special webinar which is for free via webinar@qftest.com. The number of seats is limited.

With your attendance you accept that the recording of the webinar may be published on YouTube and other public channels afterwards. At the end of the training you will have the possibility to ask questions.

Best regards,

QFS-Team

P.S.: More details on the presentation technology used and other information on our webinar services can be found at Webinars & Reviews and on Training & Consulting.

Critical Update QF-Test 4.4.2 Released

2018-12-11T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.4.2 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Critical Update QF-Test 4.4.2
Java Licensing
Special Webinar free of charge and next QF-Test Training Dates
New YouTube Video
Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.4.2

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and wonderful Christmas parties.

We want to thank you for the excellent cooperation during this year!

1. Critical Update QF-Test 4.4.2

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.4.2

Unfortunately support for our new license format which was introduced with QF-Test 4.3 and includes information about the maintenance period wasn’t perfect.

As a result, customers with a license for QF-Test 4.3 will not be able to use QF-Test versions 4.4.0 and 4.4.1 after December 15th. This can be fixed either by updating to QF-Test 4.4.2 or by applying a license update which we’ll gladly provide upon request. Affected customers with a license server were informed in advance and supplied with a current license which also resolves the issue for all users of the license server.

The positive news is that we’ve been able to keep up with the new pace of Eclipse with now four releases per year so that QF-Test 4.4.2 already comes with support for the upcoming Eclipse/SWT version 4.10.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.4.1 to 4.4.2 can be found in the Release Notes in section 5 of this newsletter or online.

2. Java Licensing

Which Java versions does QF-Test support – in particular regarding Oracle’s licensing policy?

QF-Test supports Java versions 6 to 11 and soon 12.

For some time QF-Test is going to be distributed with a free Java version (JRE 8) made available by Oracle under the BCL (Binary Code License) which does not incur any costs for you or for us.

When we bring QF-Test to Java 11 or higher we plan to either use OpenJDK or some other free JRE or acquire a Distribution License from Oracle so that there won’t be any additional costs for you either.

3. Special Webinar free of charge and next QF-Test Training Dates

Special Webinar (free of charge)

We continue our popular special webinars: The webinar is free of charge but seats are limited.

Date | Content |January 28, 201916:00 – approx. 17:30 CET: It’s like magic – dependencies in QF‑Test: Smart management of test preconditions and global error recovery
German version in the morning

Training at our site

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face QF-Test training at our site (compact course) in small groups. Here are all dates for 2019.

Date | Language |March 12-14, 2019GermanJuly 02-04, 2019GermanOctober 15-17, 2019German

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

To save travel time and expenses we offer all our trainings via webinar too.

4. New YouTube Video

Since the last newsletter we have published a further video on YouTube:

Tutorial Web: Chapter 10 Working with a Sample Test-suite (Web)
We are just about to record our whole tutorial for your convenience.

Visit our YouTube channel and subscribe.

5. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.4.2

New Features

Support was added for Eclipse/SWT version 4.10 alias “2018-12”.
ChromeDriver was updated to version 2.44 (still for Chrome up to version 71).

Bugs Fixed

The license check of QF-Test versions 4.4.0 and 4.4.1 might refuse a QF-Test 4.3 license even when that license had a valid maintenance plan.
An SUT based on Java 9 or higher that contains references to inner classes that were not deployed with the SUT (like inner classes used only for unit tests) is now handled correctly.
In case of a slow server response a ‘Browser HTTP request’ node could cause errors to get logged in QF-Test’s terminal even when the request was executed successfully.
When accessing the reference manual on macOS via the ‘What’s this?’ entry in popup menus the browser did not navigate to the correct position on the target page.

Special Webinar with Ute Erler

2018-11-05T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

May we invite you to our latest QF-Test ‘special webinar’ free of charge in the end of November.
It’s about the main point in test automation: Component recognition. Once this works reliably, tests are tolerant to changes and lead to low maintenance.
Here is the announcement video on YouTube.

Solving the component riddle: How to achieve robust component recognition in QF-Test?

Component recognition in QF-Test is flexible and in addition to standard controls like buttons or checkboxes it also supports complex components (dynamic trees, tables etc.).

This webinar shows the basics of this algorithm and configuration options in QF-Test (for the recognition of both Java and Web objects) as well as possibilities how individual parts can be optimized.

Date: November 26, 2018: 16.00 – approx. 17.30 CET (German version in the morning)

Title: Solving the component riddle: How to achieve robust component recognition in QF-Test?

Reserve your seat for the next special webinar which is for free via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10, the seats are limited to 25.

Best regards,

QFS-Team

P.S.: More details on the presentation technology used and other information on our webinar services can be found at Webinars & Reviews and on Training & Consulting.

If you don’t want to receive information about special webinars please click “Unsubscribe Newsletter” at the buttom of this email.

Medium Upgrade QF-Test 4.4 Released

2018-10-11T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.4 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.4
Special Webinar (free of charge) and next QF-Test Training Dates
New YouTube Videos
World Quality Report 2018
Release Notes for QF-Test 4.4

With best regards,

Your Quality First Software Team

P.S.: We’d highliy appreciate your rating for QF-Test on Capterra. This is possible without any registration.

1. Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.4

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.4

This medium upgrade adds procedures and a scripting module for controlling macOS applications. Eclipse/SWT support now includes version 2018-09, the ‘Unit test’ node handles JUnit 5 “Jupiter” tests and in PDF documents an entire text page can now be checked in a single step.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.3 to 4.4 can be found in the Release Notes in section 5 of this newsletter or online.

If you already have a license for QF-Test version 4.3, you can directly install the new QF-Test version. Future QF-Test versions that are released within your maintenance period can then also be used permanently without upgrading your license.

2. Special Webinar (free of charge) and next QF-Test Training Dates

Special Webinar (free of charge)

We continue our popular special webinars, albeit with a small change: The webinar is now free of charge but seats are limited to 25.

Date | Content |November 26, 2018
(German version in the morning)16.00 – 17.30 CET: Solving the component riddle: How to achieve robust component recognition in QF-Test?

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

Training at our site

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face QF-Test training at our site (compact course) in small groups.

Date | Language |November 27-29, 2018GermanMarch 12-14, 2019German

Training via Webinar

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our trainings via webinar.

3. New YouTube Videos

Since the last newsletter in July we have published two further videos on YouTube:

Visit our YouTube channel.

4. World Quality Report 2018

Here is a summary of the latest World Quality Report 2018 (translation of the citation from heise).

“End-user satisfaction” got the highest rating overall with 5.85 of 7 points. The two following highest rated aspects are “Recognition of software bugs before go-live” and “Quality increase of software or product” with 5.81 points. Further information.

5. Release Notes for QF-Test 4.4

New Features:

The new automac module can be used to control native macOS applications at script level. It is accompanied by procedures in the package qfs.automac of the standard library qfs.qft. See chapter 28 for further information.
Support was added for Eclipse/SWT version 4.9 alias “2018-09”.
The ‘Unit test’ node can now run unit tests using the JUnit 5 “Jupiter” engine.
New text checks for PDF documents add the ability to check the text of an entire page with a single ‘Check text’ or ‘Check items’ node.
GeckoDriver was updated to version 0.23.0 (for Firefox up to version 62) and ChromeDriver to version 2.42 (for Chrome up to version 69).
The arguments of TestRunListener methods can now easily be converted to Json objects and for a TestRunEvent a call to getNode().getComponentId() now returns the QF-Test component ID of the current step. See section 46.7 for details.

Bugs Fixed:

Auto-filling the comment of a procedure could accidentally drop @author information and other doctags.
In special cases the call to rc.toServer in a Jython ‘SUT script’ node could cause a NullPointerException.
The result of a ‘Fetch index’ step for first-level child nodes of a Tree or TreeTable component in a web application wasn’t always correct.
With Internet Explorer a download triggered in a popup window could remain incomplete.
Computing the name of an embedded Swing Frame based on the containing JavaFX SwingNode now also works with JavaFX 11.

Special Webinar with Pascal Bihler

2018-08-29T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

May we invite you to our latest QF-Test ‘special webinar’ in September.
Here is the announcement video on YouTube.

Travelling to Treasure Island – recover the hidden treasures in QF-Test via scripting: extending functionality via Jython, Groovy and JavaScript

I would like to show you the following topics:

The Scripting languages Jython, Groovy and JavaScript that are supported by QF-Test.
Extension of the QF-Test functionalities via Scripting.
QF-Test offers APIs for individual extensions, e.g.
- Modification of component recognition with resolvers.
- Definition of individual check types.

Date: September 24, 2018: 16.00 – 17.30 CEST (German version in the morning)

Title: Travelling to Treasure Island – recover the hidden treasures in QF‑Test via scripting:extending functionality via Jython,Groovy and JavaScript

A session (duration 1.5 hours) costs EUR 125 per participant (net). Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

You’re welcome to bring your questions to the webinar, but please focus to those of general interest. Individual questions can be clarified subsequently to the session or at a separate appointment.

Best regards,

QFS-Team

P.S.: This webinar series will continue on November 26, 2018:
Solving the component riddle: How to achieve robust component recognition in QF-Test?

More details on the presentation technology used and other information on our webinar services can be found at Webinars & Reviews and on Training & Consulting.

Medium Upgrade QF-Test 4.3 Released

2018-07-26T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.3 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.3
2. Faster QF-Test Release Cycle
3. YouTube and Capterra
4. Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar
5. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.3

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

1. Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.3

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.3

This release adds support for Java 11, Eclipse/SWT 4.8 “Photon” as well as SWT with GTK3 and comes with a great step towards faster release cycles.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.2.5 to 4.3 can be found in the Release Notes in section 5 of this newsletter or online.

2. Faster QF-Test Release Cycle

We want to bring new features and bug fixes to you faster. Starting with QF-Test 4.3, a medium upgrade will be released whenever one or more relevant features are fully implemented and minor updates are going to focus on bug-fixes and small improvements. Our continuous self-tests have long since established the required stability of QF-Test and now the required conditions have been put into place:

New license format – all inclusive during maintenance period

The QF-Test maintenance contract has always included free medium or major upgrades within the maintenance period. However, a license update had to be requested and rolled out to all test and development machines with QF-Test installations in order to activate the new version.

With the new license file – which has to be explicitly requested for QF-Test 4.3 one more time – this extra effort will be dispensed with: The maintenance period is now encoded in the license file to allow using all new medium and major versions that are released within that period as well as the associated minor updates. When extending the maintenance contract in the future you will automatically receive a new license, valid for the extended maintenance period.

To further simplify upgrading licenses for many QF-Test installations it may be convenient to install a dedicated QF-Test license server for your network. Our sales team will gladly provide further information.

Transition period for license updates

To ease the transition to QF-Test version 4.3, it can be used with a license for QF-Test version 4.2 until October 31, 2018. Please make use of this transition period to update your QF-Test licenses to version 4.3. You can request a license update via our form.

Users with a valid Maintenance Agreement are entitled to this medium upgrade for free. Without Maintenance Agreement the fee for upgrading from version 4.2 to version 4.3 is 20% of the current license price.

Newsletter for medium upgrades only

To prevent flooding you with emails about the more frequent updates, only medium and of course major upgrades with new functionality and features are going be announced via newsletter. If you would like to stay informed about minor updates you can subscribe to the QF-Test mailing list or our RSS-feed or activate the new automatic check for QF-Test updates described below.

Automatic check for QF-Test updates

When online, QF-Test can now check for updates automatically. You can configure this service according to your needs, for example to check only for specific kinds of updates or to deactivate it entirely.

3. YouTube and Capterra

We are in the process of updating our YouTube videos and creating new ones. The latest video explains the Testing of PDF documents which is possible with every QF-Test developer license. Subscribe to our channel for further information.

We would like to ask you to rate QF-Test on Capterra.

4. Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar

Training at QFS

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face training QF-Test training at QFS (compact course) in small groups.

Date | Language |November 27-29, 2018German

Training via Webinar

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our trainings via webinar:

Training via webinar | Date |Standard webinar trainingtime by arrangementCompany webinar training (exclusively for your company)time by arrangement

Special Webinar

We continue his popular special webinars. A special webinar session lasts about 1.5 hours and costs 125 EUR (net) per participant. Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

Date | Content |September 24, 2018
16.00 – 17.30 CESTTravelling to Treasure Island -recover the hidden treasures in QF-Test via scripting:extending functionality via Jython,Groovyand JavaScriptNovember 26, 2018
16.00 – 17.30 CETSolving the component riddle: How to achieve robust component recognition in QF-Test?

The German version takes place in the morning.

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

5. Release Notes for QF-Test 4.3

New features:

Testing of Java 11 based SUTs is now supported.
Support was added for Eclipse/SWT version 4.8 “Photon”.
On Linux QF-Test now supports testing Eclipse/SWT applications in GTK3 mode (SWT version 4.6 and higher).
A new demo suite was added that shows how to test REST services. It is accompanied by the new manual chapter 16.
With the new option “Create screenshots of all client windows upon error” it is now possible to always capture images of all windows of all connected SUTs regardless of where an exception or error occurred.
The new procedure qfs.swt.tree.expandCompleteTree in the standard library qfs.qft can be used to expand all nodes in an SWT tree.

Bugs fixed:

The default viewer for opening PDF documents on Linux was changed from acroread to xdg-open.
The PDF client now handles XObjects even if they use a Type0 font without embedded CMap. The only exception are text checks which are not possible without a CMap.
The wording of error messages from rc.checkEqual calls has been improved.
The encoding of some German characters in scripts in the qfs.qft standard library has been fixed.
Check highlight frames for SWT applications on Windows were drawn with an offset leaving visual clutter in case a window’s size was reduced so far that the menu bar was broken into two lines.

QF-Test 4.2.3 Released

2018-05-03T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.2.3 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.2.3
QFS is a Great Place to Work
Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar
Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.2.3

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

P.S.: On June 8 our partner Dirk Schweier from Muthpartners will talk about “Synergies of test automation and load tests” at the German Testing Day in Frankfurt.

Alternatively we recommend the Webinar about “How QF-Test and NeoLoad can provide better load tests” of April, 24. You can watch it here at Neotys. Don’t be concerned about the registration form, Neotys can attribute the downloads via partner and you won’t be contacted.
The German version of this webinar will take place in June.

1. Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.2.3

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.2.3

This release comes with an enhanced autowin package in the standard library qfs.qft that now also makes use of Windows UI Automation for some very basic test automation of Windows applications. It also adds support for the Shadow DOM Web API, brings updates for the latest browsers and a few more smaller features as well as several bug fixes.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.2.2 to 4.2.3 can be found in the Release Notes in section 4 of this newsletter or online.

2. QFS is a Great Place to Work

We happily and proudly announce that QFS is a “Great Place to Work”. Though we participated for the first time in this renowned competition we finished first (twice!) in the category “small companies up to 50 employees”: Germany’s best employer of the ITC industry as well as Bavaria’s best employer 2018.

Would you like to work for the “best”? We have an open position for a software developer (m/f) in Geretsried, Germany.

… If you know someone who might be interested in this job, you can also show him or her our introduction video of QF‑Test version 4.2

3. Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar

Training at QFS

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face training QF-Test training at QFS (compact course) in small groups.

Date | Language |June 26-28, 2018GermanNovember 27-29, 2018German

Training via Webinar

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our trainings via webinar:

Training via webinar | Date |Standard webinar trainingtime by arrangementCompany webinar training
(exclusively for your company)time by arrangement

Special Webinar

Martin Moser continues his popular special webinars. A special webinar session lasts about 1.5 hours and costs 125 EUR (net) per participant. Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

Date | Content |July 23, 201816.00 – 17.30 p.m. CEST: Travelling to Treasure Island -recover the hidden treasures in QF-Test via scripting:extending functionality via Jython,Groovyand JavaScript

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

4. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.2.3

New Features:

The embedded Selenium WebDriver framework was updated to version 3.11.0 and ChromeDriver to version 2.38 (with support up to Chrome version 67), and Mozilla GeckoDriver to version 0.20.1 which adds support for Firefox 59. The 32bit Linux version of ChromeDriver was removed from QF-Test as it is no longer supported by the Chrome development team. If needed, the last available version (2.33) can be downloaded manually from the ChromeDriver archive.
QF-Test now supports the Shadow DOM API and thus interaction with web elements that are embedded in an open ShadowRoot.
To bridge the gap until a full Windows engine is available for QF-Test the qfs.autowin package in the standard library qfs.qft has been extended to make use of Windows UIAutomation. It includes several new procedures to automate simple tests for native Windows applications.
When moving the mouse cursor over the menu entry for a connected client in the »Clients« menu, the main window of the respective client gets highlighted.
The new variable group ${idlocal:…} is similar to ${id:…} with the added effect of enforcing component lookup in the test-suite that is current at the time of expansion. See section 7.5 for further information.
The debug information for component recognition in the run-log is now more readable and – like other text fields in the run-log – can be opened in an external editor via the new new keyboard shortcut [Shift-Control-Return].

Bugs Fixed:

The deprecation warning dialog for Java WebStart in Java 9 or higher is now handled automatically by QF-Test
When refactoring or analyzing test-suites, rc.callProcedure calls are now taken into account everywhere, i.e. in every variable attribute and not just in script nodes.
A data-driver iteration inside a ‘Test-step’ can now be interrupted via a ‘Break’ node like any other node iteration.
Firefox in QF-Driver mode could crash on Linux when processing certain non-UTF-8-encoded strings.
For Chrome in QF-Driver mode right button mouse clicks did not work correctly in qooxdoo applications.
A missing “http:” protocol header in a proxy auto-config URL is now gets automatically corrected.
Getting the name for an embedded Swing window from the enclosing JavaFX SwingNode now also works with Java update 8u171.

Free Webinar: Neotys and Muthpartners

2018-04-20T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

May we invite you to the free ‘NeoLoad & QF-Test Webinar’ next Tuesday.
Our partners from Neotys and G. Muth Partners GmbH will show you:

How QF-Test and NeoLoad can provide better Web load tests

You will learn how QF-Test and NeoLoad can help you validate the most realistic user experience
You will know how both tools allow you testing more in less time.

Content

Nowadays, most of the projects are facing two main challenges:

How do I realistically validate the user experience?

According to several studies, ½ consumers are expecting a web page to load in 2 seconds or less: the risk of seeing them abandoning their basket without finalizing their order is huge. Some of you may still have in mind this figure: according to Amazon, every 100 ms of latency cost them 1% in sales.

How to run more test with less time?

DevOps environments demand shorter development cycles and a great deal of automation. Performance testing is complex and takes time because it still requires human action. Saving time by having the ability to reuse the design work seems to be mandatory.

During this webinar organized by Muth Partners, you will know more about how both questions are answered with the integration of the two tools: QF-Test and NeoLoad.

Date: April 24, 2018: 11.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. CEST (German version in June 2018)

Title: How QF-Test and NeoLoad can provide better Web load tests

This sessions lasts about one hour and is for free.

Best regards,

Your QFS Team

P.S.: General information about load tests with QF-Test for Web and Java, can be found in the manual.

QFS Webinar Newsletter, 2018-04

2018-04-06T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

May I invite you to my latest QF-Test “special webinar” in April.

Stay flexible – master QF-Test variables efficiently: global or local, dynamically generated or out of the application, from a data base or via Excel…

I would like to show you the following topics:

Variables in QF-Test: Difference between global and local, understanding variable stacks, usage of system variables and default values
Determination of test data out of the application and further processing of these data
Input from excel files, data bases etc. also for data driven testing
Determination of dynamic data like the current date.

Date: April 17, 2018: time by arrangement, German version the day before

Title: Stay flexible – master QF-Test variables efficiently: global or local, dynamically generated or out of the application, from a data base or via Excel…

A session (duration 1.5 hours) costs EUR 125 per participant (net). Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

You’re welcome to bring your questions to the webinar, but please focus to those of general interest. Individual questions can be clarified subsequently to the session or at a separate schedule.

Best regards,
Martin Moser, trainer and consultant

P.S.: This webinar series will continue on July 24, 2018: Travelling to Treasure Island – recover the hidden treasures in QF-Test via scripting: extending functionality via Jython, Groovy and JavaScript

More details on the presentation technology used and other information on our webinar services can be found at Webinars & Reviews and under Training & Consulting.

QF-Test 4.2.2 Released

2018-03-09T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.2.2 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.2.2
Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar
Release Notes for QF-Test 4.2.2

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

1. QF-Test 4.2.2 Released

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.2.2

This release adds support of JavaFX SubScene components. The mobile emulation mode has been further improved and also included are the usual updates for the current browser versions as well as a few bug fixes.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 can be found in the Release Notes in section 3 of this newsletter or online.

2. Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar

Training at QFS

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face training QF-Test training at QFS (compact course) in small groups.

Date | Language |March 13-15, 2018English
Short term registration possible.June 26-28, 2018German

Training via Webinar

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our trainings via webinar:

Date | Training via webinar |time by arrangementStandard webinar trainingtime by arrangementCompany webinar training
(exclusively for your company)

Special Webinar

Martin Moser continues his popular special webinars. A special webinar session lasts about 1.5 hours and costs 125.00 EUR (net) per participant. Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

Date | Content |April 17, 2018

Variable at will – Master QF-Test variables efficiently: global or local, dynamically generated or out of the application, from a data base or via Excel…
(Time by arrangement; German version day before)

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

3. Release Notes for QF-Test 4.2.2

New Features:

The embedded Selenium WebDriver framework was updated to version 3.10.0 and ChromeDriver to version 2.36 (with support up to Chrome version 66).
Mobile emulation mode now supports device-specific insets.
Support was added for JavaFX SubScene components.

Bugs Fixed:

On Windows the wrong qftest.exe and qftestc.exe files slipped into the release bundles so that the bin directory of the JRE was still added to the front of the PATH environment variable which could interfere with SUT startup. Also, the command line argument -plugindir no longer had any effect.
When using WebDriver connection mode with QF-Test 4.2.1 in some cases the browser could no longer receive input after highlighting a component.
The webResolvers module now also supports registering a BusyApplicationDetector.

QF-Test 4.2.1 Released

2018-02-26T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.2.1 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.2.1
New QF-Test Video for Features since 4.2
Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar
Release Notes for QF-Test 4.2.1

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

P.S.: A brand new case study: QF-Test replaces Selenium at HPV

1. QF-Test Version 4.2.1 Released

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.2.1

This release adds support for testing SUTs based on Java 10. Thanks to the direct support for the mobile emulation mode of Chrome simulation of mobile browsers is now much easier. Also included are the usual updates for the current browser versions and a few bug fixes, but fewer than new features which is a remarkable feat for a dot-one version.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 can be found in the Release Notes in section 4 of this newsletter or online.

2. New Video since QF-Test 4.2

Find an overview of all QF-Test features since version 4.2 in our latest video.

3. Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar

“The respondents see the biggest challenges in integrating the automation tools…” as Heise, the leading German computer magazine, interprets the World Quality Report 2017-18.
That’s why you should attend one of our trainings! Decide which training/consulting fits best for you:

Training at QFS

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face training QF-Test training at QFS (compact course) in small groups.

Date | Language |March 13-15, 2018GermanJune 26-28, 2018German

Training via Webinar

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our trainings via webinar:

Training via webinar | Date |Standard webinar trainingtime by arrangementCompany webinar training
(exclusively for your company)time by arrangement

Special Webinar

Date | Content |April 17, 2018

Variable at will – Master QF-Test variables efficiently: global or local, dynamically generated or out of the application, from a data base or via Excel… (time by arrangement; German version day before)

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

4. Release Notes for QF-Test 4.2.1

New Features:

Testing of Java 10 based SUTs is now supported.
The embedded Selenium WebDriver framework was updated to version 3.9.1, ChromeDriver to version 2.35 (with support up to Chrome version 64), and Mozilla GeckoDriver to version 0.19.1 which adds support for Firefox 58.
Chrome can now be started in mobile emulation mode via the new ‘Procedure’ qfs.web.browser.general.openMobileEmulation in the standard library qfs.qft.
Proxy settings are now also supported for Firefox and Chrome with WebDriver connection.
When nesting test-cases via a ‘Test call’ node the new attribute ‘Act like a procedure call’ determines how exceptions are handled inside the call. The now obsolete backwards compatibility option “Don’t treat test calls inside test-cases like procedures” has been removed.
The new ‘Procedure’ qfs.utils.waitForOneOfNComponents in the standard library qfs.qft can be used to wait for one of several components to appear.
The ‘Procedure’ qfs.utils.readTextFromFile in the standard library qfs.qft can now handle different file encodings via the optional parameter fileencoding.
Markers and breakpoints can now be made persistent by adding the doctags @breakpoint, @red, @green etc. See section 51.1 for further information about doctags.
The parameters errorlevel and newerrorlevel for the @rerun doctag are now optional. See subsection 18.3.2 for details.
The ‘Database password’ attribute of the ‘Database’ node can now be encrypted.
QF-Test now supports native full-screen mode on macOS via the menu entry »View«-»Fullscreen« and the keyboard shortcut [⌃⌘-F].
On macOS the keyboard shortcut for reloading test-suites was changed to [⌘-R].
On Linux systems the embedded code editor now supports pasting text via the middle mouse button.

Bugs Fixed:

The PDF viewer now correctly rotates PDF documents.In Groovy scripts the rc.callProcedure call was broken when trying to use keyword argument syntax.
In Groovy scripts the rc.getNum method call inadvertently returned long instead of int.
In a few cases a broken system property set by QF-Test could interfere with SUT startup.
The bin directory of the JRE used for running QF-Test is now appended to the environment variable PATH for the SUT and not prepended as it was in QF-Test versions before 4.2.

Special Webinar with Martin Moser

2018-01-22T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

May I invite you to my latest QF-Test ‘special webinar’ next week.

QF-Test 4.2 and 3rd party tools: PDF Testing, JUnit, Selenium, SOAP/REST Services, image-based testing etc.

On the one hand this special webinar will be about the integration of test approaches that usually are not covered by QF-Test. On the other hand QF-Test 4.2 comes with a bunch of interesting new features like PDF testing that are really worth to have a look.

Testing of PDFs: PDFs documents aren’t just “pixels” but textual and graphic elements.
Unit test execution is a completely different area in testing and usually very technical. This unit test execution enables the integration of Selenium, e.g. using both tools together to complement the other one.
SOAP/REST Services are the basis of many modern applications. With agile methods and a clean test design a significant part of the tests can be implemented efficiently against these interfaces.
Image based testing covers testing of applications/dialogs that are not Java or HTML.

January 30, 2018, time by arrangement: QF-Test 4.2: Uniting the best of several worlds – QF-Test and 3rd party tools: PDF Testing, JUnit, Selenium, SOAP/REST Services, image-based testing etc.
(German version the day before)

A session (duration 1.5 hours) costs EUR 125 per participant (net). Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

You’re welcome to bring your questions to the webinar, but please focus to those of general interest. Individual questions can be clarified subsequently to the session or at a separate schedule.

Best regards,

Martin Moser, trainer and consultant

More details on the technology used and other information on our webinar services can be found at Webinars & Reviews and on Training & Consulting.

Since version 4.2 our Tutorial was rewritten from scratch that users can start testing quickly.

Medium Upgrade QF-Test 4.2 Released

2018-01-10T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.2 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.2 2. Backwards Compatibility and System Requirements 3. License Updates for QF-Test 4.2 and License Server Option
Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar
Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.2

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

P.S.: Two brand new case studies:

Migration from Java Swing to JavaFX at Centris AG
Keyword-driven Testing at the ÖBV

1. Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.2

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.2

Java 9 support
Testing of PDF documents
Additional scripting language JavaScript
Support for Angular includes UI toolkits Bootstrap and AngularJS Material
Support for Smart GWT
Dedicated nodes for static and live unit tests
Headless web-testing
Testing of REST services
The QF-Test tutorial was rewritten from scratch.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.1.6 to 4.2 can be found in the Release Notes in section 5 of this newsletter or online.

2. Backwards Compatibility and System Requirements

Please see section 1.1 of the manual for a detailed list of system requirements and supported technology versions.

QFS is taking pains to maintain backwards compatibility even in case of substantial changes. Further information:

3. License Updates for QF-Test 4.2 and License Server Option

To ease the transition to QF-Test version 4.2, it can be used with a license for QF-Test version 4.1 until February 28, 2018. Please make use of this transition period to update your QF-Test licenses to version 4.2. Update you license file via service@qftest.com.

Users with a valid Maintenance Agreement are entitled to this medium upgrade for free. Without Maintenance Agreement the fee for upgrading from version 4.1 to version 4.2 is 20% of the current license price.

Please note that QF-Test can now use a license server as an alternative to the classic license mechanism which only supports one local network. This makes it possible to float QF-Test licenses across multiple sites – even world-wide – to fully utilize them. Even at a single site the license server has many advantages for managing multiple licenses.

The server itself is free of charge and server licenses are very reasonably priced. If interested, please get in touch with our sales team for more information and an individual offer.

4. Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar

Training at QFS

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face training QF-Test training at QFS (compact course) in small groups.

Date | Language |March 13-15, 2018GermanJune 26-28, 2018German

Training via Webinar

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our trainings via webinar:

Training via webinar | Date |Standard webinar trainingFebruary 05-08, 2018Company webinar training (exclusively for your company)time by arrangement

Special Webinar

Date | Content |January 30, 2018
(German version one day before)QF-Test 4.2: Uniting the best of several worlds – QF-Test and 3rd party tools: PDF Testing, JUNIT, Selenium, SOAP/REST Services, image-based testing etc.
(time by arrangement)

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

5. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.2

New Features:

QF-Test can now test applications based on Java 9. This includes support for the new Java 9 module system (“Project Jigsaw”) without having to resort to the “Big Kill Switch”, i.e. the command line argument —illegal-access.
Testing PDF documents like a normal application in a dedicated PDF viewer with textual and graphical checks for individual elements.
JavaScript was added as new scripting language equal to Jython and Groovy for ‘Server script’ and ‘SUT script’ nodes. This encompasses the ECMAScript 8 standard and all QF‑Test scripting modules like resolvers, rc or autowin are available in JavaScript.
Support was added for the popular AJAX framework Angular, including support for the UI toolkits Bootstrap and AngularJS Material.
Support was added for the AJAX toolkit Smart GWT.
The new ‘Unit test’ node can run JUnit tests and integrate the results in the QF-Test run-log and report. Tests can be implemented in Java or as scripts and run statically or dynamically in a ‘live’ SUT as an alternative to writing mocks.
Support was added for headless web-testing using the headless versions of Chrome and Firefox.
The ‘Server HTTP request’ node now supports testing REST services via the additional methods HEAD, PUT, DELETE, TRACE and CONNECT and it is now possible to specify custom headers for the HTTP request.
The QF-Test tutorial was rewritten from scratch.
The re-implemented Quickstart Wizard combines a concise workflow with an improved design.
The »Help«-»Info« dialog has a new tab “System info” that shows many QF-Test settings and system information.
Attributes like the ‘Condition’ condition of an ‘If’ node which are evaluated by the Jython interpreter now have syntax highlighting and support for code completion.
The embedded Chrome browser used for QF-Driver mode has been updated to CEF version 57.
The command line argument -run now also works for interactive mode to directly start test-execution when running QF-Test. This is complemented by the new -suitesfile argument that can be used to specify a text-file containing the test-suites and tests to execute.
There are new commands available for controlling QF-Test from the command line. The new batch argument -interruptRunningInstances can be used to suspend tests running in the local machine. Similarly, -killRunningInstances will cleanly terminate running instances, including interactive ones, provided they were started with the argument -allowkilling. Cleanly here means that batch tests are stopped, dependencies rolled back and run-logs are saved.
The new Windows setup program for QF-Test adheres to the current Windows conventions for placing different kinds of files in various locations. There’s still an option to use the old layout with all files in a single place.
On macOS, application arguments can now be configured from within QF-Test.
You can now specify a macOS app directly as the ‘Executable’ attribute of an ‘Start SUT client’ node.
A ‘Sequence’ node can now also be transformed into a ‘Loop’ or ‘While’ node.
Calls to deprecated procedures or test-cases are now also stroke through in the tree view.
The ‘Load properties’ node now supports loading property files encoded as UTF-8 via its new attribute ‘File encoding is UTF-8’.
Components in the SUT are now highlighted automatically when clicking on a component or event node in QF-Test’s tree, irrespective of whether the node was already selected or not. If automatic highlighting is deactivated via the option Highlight selected component in the SUT you can now trigger it explicitly via the context menu of component, event or check nodes as well as QF-Test component IDs in parameter tables and scripts.
The boolean values in the ‘Extra feature’ attributes of a ‘Component’ or the ‘Items’ attribute of a ‘Check items’ node can now make use of variables. Simply double-click the respective table cell to edit the value.
The new webResolvers module enables implementing resolvers in JavaScript that run directly in the browser.
The extra feature qfs:label now also applies to Window and Dialog components.
There are several new (or newly documented) command line options for overriding the directories that are relevant to QF-Test, including -userdir , -systemdir , -jythondir , -groovydir , -javascriptdir , -plugindir and -logdir .
Several definitions for directories relevant for the QF-Test installation have been added to the qftest property group, e.g. ${qftest:dir.log} for the directory into which run-logs are saved automatically. See section 7.5 for a detailed list.
The sort order of parameter tables like the ‘Variable definitions’ attribute of a ‘Procedure call’ node can now be reset to the order of the called node via the table’s context menu.

Bugs Fixed:

Conversion into a regular expression used on a ‘QF-Test component ID’ attribute now correctly differentiates between the ID and the sub-item syntax.
On Ubuntu Linux taking SUT thread dumps and terminating sub-processes of the SUT did not work.
Unicode characters outside the Basic Mulitilingual Pane (BMP) are now handled correctly.
TooltipResolvers are now also called for non-Swing AWT components.
The procedure qfs.web.general.integrateFirebug now loads Firebug via https instead of http which prevents issues with mixed content.
In some cases the text of a MenuItem in a web application could mistakenly include the text of its sub-MenuItems as well.
Creating many embedded WebView or SWT Browser instances could lead to a memory leak.
Running a JavaFX based SUT via WebStart could cause some IllegalAccessExceptions.
Names for the tabs of a JavaFX TabPanel now take possible so-called Graphic elements into account.

QFS Christmas Greetings

2017-12-20T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

We want to thank you for the good cooperation during this year!

We are going to release QF-Test version 4.2 including interesting features like PDF testing, Java 9, Javascript, Angular, Smart GWT, REST Services and nodes for unit tests beginning 2018. You can get the QF-Test pre-version 4.2-dev here.

Best regards,

Your QFS team

P.S.: Interested in web load testing? Tool Wedding of QF-Test and NeoLoad.

Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year 2018!

QF-Test Version 4.1.6 Released

2017-10-27T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.1.6 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

QF-Test Version 4.1.6 Released
Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar
QF-Test at Conferences
Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.1.6

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

1. QF-Test Version 4.1.6 Released

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.1.6

This release comes with new Selenium WebDriver libraries that support the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox and fixes a few issues.

QF-Test 4.1.6 is going to be the last 4.1.* release. QF-Test 4.2 is receiving its final touches and due for release in the next few weeks.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.1.5 to 4.1.6 can be found in the Release Notes in section 4 of this newsletter or online.

2. Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar

Training at QFS

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face training QF-Test training at QFS.

Date | Language |November 28 – 30, 2017GermanMarch 13 – 15, 2018German

Training via Webinar

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our trainings via webinar:

Training via webinar | Date |Standard webinar trainingFebruary 05 – 08, 2018Company webinar training (exclusively for your company)time by arrangement

Special Webinar

Date | Content |December 05, 2017
(German version one day before)

Let QF-Test run… unattended test execution in continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins) or batch scripting
(time by arrangement)

January 30, 2018
(German version one day before)Uniting the best of several worlds – QF-Test and 3rd party tools: JUnit, Selenium, SOAP/REST, image based testing etc.
(time by arrangement)

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

3. QF-Test at Conferences

On Thursday 19th of October Fabian Klaffke talked about experiences in a client project: “Keyword-driven testing and variant management – practical experience with Klaros-Testmanagement and QF-Test”. This solution workshop was part of the 25th software QA day of imbus in Frankfort, the leading conference concerning software quality and software testing in Germany.

Dr. Pascal Bihler of QFS focused on the developer’s side with his speech: “It works, but does it work the way it should?” – UI test automation for Vaadin projects” on the Java Community Conference JCON in Dusseldorf which took place for the first time. Mr. Bihler had a whole cinema hall on Wednesday 25th of October for his presentation. From the script: With RapidClipse you can create extensive projects either as web application, hybrid mobile app or classical Java desktop app efficiently and conveniently. HTML5 and Vaadin are the web technologies therefore. And with QF-Test the testing of such projects is also fun.

4. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.1.6

New Features:

The embedded Selenium API was updated to version 3.6.0, ChromeDriver to version 2.33 (with support up to Chrome version 62), and Mozilla GeckoDriver to version 0.19 which adds support for Firefox 55 – 57.
Window and Panel nodes from the supported AJAX toolkits now have a dedicated title check.

Bugs Fixed:

A workaround was implemented for a bug in the Linux JRE 8_152 that could cause QF-Test to hang during startup.
A Swing based SUT started remotely via the procedure qfs.daemon.startRemoteSUT did not connect if the option Connect via QF-Test agent was deactivated in the daemon.
Support was added for interaction with the JavaFX HTMLEditor component, including checks for its raw HTML code and the displayed text.
When recording HTTP requests, some special characters were not saved with the correct encoding.
Handling of frames in the SWT embedded Browser now works again.

Special Webinars with Martin Moser

2017-08-22T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

May I invite you to my latest ‘special webinar’.

Access the inaccessible: How to handle complex custom components in QF-Test?

Most likely your applications go beyond standard components and include your own specific and complex special components (e.g. charts or custom tables) that need to be tested – at least that’s the case for most of our customers. Hence I conceived this special webinar to show some typical examples of special components and create best practice methods for accessing their elements. These methods will allow you to work without X/Y coordinates. We will implement the ItemResolver interface and also make best possible use of the image-in-image search.

September 19, 2017, time by arrangement: Access the inaccessible: How to handle complex custom components in QF-Test?
(German version the day before)

A session (duration 1.5 hours) costs EUR 125 per participant (net). Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

You’re welcome to bring your questions to the webinar, but please focus to those of general interest. Individual questions can be clarified subsequently to the session or at a separate schedule.

Best regards,

Martin Moser, trainer and consultant

P.S.: This webinar series will continue on December 5, 2017:

Let QF-Test run… unattended test execution in continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins) or batch scripting

Possibilities of automated test execution
Automated report and run-log generation
Integration of QF-Test in continuous integration like Jenkins etc.
Sending mails after test execution
Interactive test execution

More details on the technology used and other information on our webinar services can be found at
Webinars & Reviews and on Training & Consulting.

QF-Test Version 4.1.5 Released

2017-08-09T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.1.5 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

QF-Test Version 4.1.5 Released
Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar
No summer recess at QFS
Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.1.5

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

P.S.: Some examples of customers time savings due to automation with QF-Test: Test automation and return on investment

1. QF-Test Version 4.1.5 Released

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.1.5

This version mainly fixes a number of bugs and updates the embedded Selenium framework for use with the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox.

Thedetailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.1.4 to 4.1.5 can be found in the Release Notes in [section 4 of this newsletterdocumentation/release-notes.html#4.1.5).

2. Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar

Training at QFS

We recommend to participate in our face-to-face training QF-Test training at QFS.

November 28 – 30, 2017, German

Training via Webinar

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our open trainings via webinar:

August 28 – 31, 2017, English (German version November 6-9, 2017)

Special Webinar

September 19, 2017 (time by arrangement) (German version one day before)

Access the inaccessible: How to handle complex custom components in QF‑Test?

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

3. No summer recess at QFS

The summer months at QFS aren’t boring, a lot is happening. QFS participated in the project “world of work at first hand” and really successfully in the event “city cycling” at Geretsried as shown at company events 2017. We had a wonderful time during our summer event where we rode camels and slept in an oriental tent.

4. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.1.5

New Features:

The embedded Chromedriver was updated to version 2.31 (version 2.30 for Linux; with support up to Chrome version 60), and Mozilla Geckodriver to version 0.18 which includes support for Firefox 54 and higher.

Bugs Fixed:

A race condition in the load testing demo suite has been fixed.
The code completion window for scripts was accidentally showing up in the run-log.
The procedure qfs.utils.files.readExcelFile in the qfs.qft standard library now correctly handles Excel files containing empty rows.
A Groovy GString returned from a resolver method is now converted correctly to a Java string for further processing.
A regression in the performance of component recognition based on qfs:label has been fixed and performance of Swing tests has improved in general.
When executing manual tests based on the suite ManualTestRunner.qft the size and location of ManualStepDialog windows is now preserved.
A modal JavaFX dialog that got opened during replay of a WINDOW_CLOSING event could lead to a DeadlockTimeoutException.
The editable check was missing for JavaFX ComboBoxes.
Support for the JavaFX SplitMenuButton has been improved so that clicks on the main button and the arrow button are recorded differently.
Creating many JxBrowser instances could lead to a memory leak.
Waiting twice for the same web page to load did not fail as expected in case the page was not refreshed in between.
Playback of a selection event on a list in Firefox with QF-Driver mode now triggers a change event only in case the list selection really changes.

QF-Test Version 4.1.4 Released

2017-06-01T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.1.4 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

QF-Test Version 4.1.4 Released
Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar
QFS-Partner in Switzerland
Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.1.4

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

P.S.: A new service from QFS: Our videos now also have subtitles (without sound, for example also in open-plan offices …).

1. QF-Test Version 4.1.4 Released

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.1.4

Besides the usual bug fixes this release adds support for Eclipse/SWT 4.7 “Oxygen” and comes with updates for the AJAX toolkit Qooxdoo and new Selenium WebDriver libraries that support the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.1.3 to 4.1.4 can be found in the Release Notes in section 4 of this newsletter or online.

2. Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar

Training at QFS

If you prefer face-to-face training, we recommend to participate in our QF-Test training at QFS.

July 11 – 13, 2017, German

November 28 – 30, 2017German

Training via Webinar

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our open trainings via webinar:

August 21 – 24, 2017, English (German version November 6-9, 2017)

Special Webinar

September 19, 2017 (time by arrangement) (German version one day before)

Access the inaccessible: How to handle complex custom components in QF‑Test?

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

3. QFS-Partner in Switzerland

QFCC is a QF-Test partner in Switzerland with more than eight years of experience in several large and small projects in renowned Swiss companies.

QF-Test trainings for beginners as well as experts in German, English or French language, also for individual special topics. The next training will take place August 22 – 24, 2017 in Olten.
Development, training and support of generic basic libraries, which ensure highest stability together with an outstanding maintainability.
Especially non technically experienced testers are able to create fast, complex and stable test sequences, without the need of dealing with technical details like components and their attributes etc.
Also perfect for automatic suite generation by test management tools such as Testbench, HP QC thanks to a consistent, lean interface.

For detailed information please visit the QFCC-website.

4. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.1.4

New Features:

Support for Eclipse/SWT 4.7 “Oxygen” has been added.
The embedded Selenium WebDriver framework was updated to version 3.4.0, ChromeDriver to version 2.29 (with support up to Chrome version 58) and GeckoDriver to 0.16.1 which includes support for Firefox 53 and higher.
Support for the AJAX toolkit Qooxdoo has been updated to latest generic class concept.
When continuing test execution after a break, the bottom-right view now automatically switches from the variables to the terminal.
Tabs in the project view now have a context menu and can be closed via a middle button click.
The manual chapter about modifying the CustomWebResolver for AJAX toolkits has been updated to match the latest state of development.
The procedure qfs.autowin.acrobat.saveAsText now automatically handles the protected mode warnings by clicking “Enable all functions”.
By using the new method resolvers.addSpecificExtraFeatureMatcher to register an ExtraFeatureMatcher with the resolvers module, the feature name can be specified at registration time.

Bugs Fixed:

A possible NumberFormatException – introduced in QF-Test 4.1.3 – for batch mode execution with -verbose [] has been fixed.
In some cases using the advanced replace dialog to replace the regular expression .* with an empty string could lead to an exception or to table entries being deleted without confirmation.
TestLink import scripts could have been broken in case of unicode characters in test-case names of TestLink.
When text containing double quotes got pasted from the system clipboard to variables or any other table, the double quotes could get lost.
When determining extra feature qfs:label for ComboBox, Spinner or Slider components, the tool tip could mistakenly get used instead of the nearest label.
The @rerun doctag was not properly evaluated in a node with additional lines in the comment.
The command line argument -plugindir was ignored in batch mode.
Selecting a component via the chooser might create an explicit reference, even though the component was part of an included test-suite.
Explicit component references within the local test-suite were not taken into account when looking for unused components.
Analyzing references of relative test-calls didn’t work correctly.
Duration and realtime are now updated correctly when merging run-logs.
In case the fallback library for Jython version 2.5 is installed, the Jython package cache now gets activated by default as it was in QF-Test version 4.0.
If the option “Intelligent scrolling in trees” was deactivated, there were cases when the selected node was not scrolled visible in the tree at all, e.g. after a search or when entering the debugger.
In some cases custom mappings of classes were not taken into account for testing with AJAX resolvers.
The libraries required for hardware accelerated graphics in the embedded Chrome browser were removed again, because they could cause a crash when opening a popup window.
Caching of non-standard attributes in the embedded Chrome browser was broken in QF-Test version 4.1.3, which could lead to component recognition issues in special cases.
Many debug messages from GeckoDriver and Mozilla Marionette are now filtered from the shared terminal.
In some cases clearing the browser cache during startup could cause Edge to hang for up to several minutes.
The entry for showing available methods was missing from the menu for JavaFX component recording.

Repeated Special Webinar of Martin Moser

2017-04-05T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

May I invite you to my repeated ‘special webinar’.

WebDriver, Re-run… what benefits are in there for me? Using the new QF-Test 4.1 features to optimize my test automation!

This time the webinar’s purpose is not to refresh and deepen known subjects but to give a structured presentation and explanation of new features of the latest version QF-Test 4.1. We have been working – since QF-Test 4.0 – for more than two years on this version and have introduced fundamental innovations.

Outstanding aspects are the extension for the testing of web applications e.g. the support of further browsers by the new WebDriver connection, but also the addition of new component selectors like XPath, CSS-selectors or QPath.

But not only QF-Test/web has evolved, daily use of QF-Test has been improved by several new features too: Extended possibilities for re-execution, merging of run-logs, an Eclipse plugin as well as new “material” for keyword driven testing and load tests. Furthermore, QF-Test now supports macOS!

April 24, 2017, time by arrangement: WebDriver, Re-run… what benefits are in there for me? Using the new QF-Test 4.1 features to optimize my test automation!
(German version the day before)

A session (duration 1.5 hours) costs EUR 125 per participant (net). Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

You’re welcome to bring your questions to the webinar, but please focus to those of general interest. Individual questions can be clarified subsequently to the session or at a separate schedule.
Of course you can try QF-Test 4.1 and evaluate it in your environment.

Best regards,

Martin Moser, trainer and consultant

P.S.: This presentation series will continue on September 19, 2017:

Access the inaccessible: How to handle complex custom components in QF-Test?

Typical examples of complex custom components
Standard item access methods
Implementation of the ItemResolver interface
No need to work with X/Y coordinates
Image-in-image search

More details on the technology used and other information on our webinar services can be found at
Webinars & Reviews and on Training & Consulting.

QF-Test Version 4.1.3 Released

2017-03-29T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.1.3 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

QF-Test Version 4.1.3 Released
Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar
Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.1.3

With best regards,

Your QFS Team

P.S. An interesting success story for CertiCon doing test automation with QF-Test: Running more tests while reducing test execution time by 50% compared to manual testing.

1. QF-Test Version 4.1.3 Released

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.1.3

Despite being just a “Minor Update”, this release is a milestone for web testing with QF-Test in which our main focus was on performance. In WebDriver mode – for which recording has now stabilized – and for JxBrowser the improvements are enormous and they should also be noticable for other technologies.

Besides the usual bug fixes there are further interesting new features, including an improved variant of recording and executing double clicks.

Note: Selenium WebDriver for Firefox only supports the latest two Firefox versions plus the most recent ESR release. At the point of this QF-Test release that means Firefox 51, 52 and 52ESR. We try to improve on that as best we can and still support Firefox 38ESR, 45 and higher, but older Firefox versions simply don’t run as well as current ones. There was a major change for Selenium WebDriver between Firefox 47 and 48 and WebDriver based tests run much faster with Firefox 48 upwards. For long-term support we currently recommend to use Firefox version 52ESR.

Th detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.1.2 to 4.1.3 can be found in the Release Notes in [section 3 of this newsletterdocumentation/release-notes.html#4.1.3).

Users with a valid QF-Test license of 4.1 can directly update to QF-Test version 4.1.3.

Customers with a valid maintenance agreement who have not yet upgraded their license to QF-Test 4.1 can request a license update via qftest@qftest.com.

2. Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinar

Training at QFS

If you prefer face-to-face training, we recommend to participate in our QF-Test training at QFS.

July 11 – 13, 2017, German

Training via Webinar

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our open trainings via webinar:

August 21 – 24, 2017 English (German version in November)

Special Webinar

Martin Moser will repeat the webinar about the release of QF-Test 4.1 because of high demand.

A special webinar session lasts about 1.5 hours and costs 125 EUR (net) per participant. Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

April 25, 2017 (German version one day before)

WebDriver, Re-run… what benefits are in there for me? Using the new QF-Test 4.1 features to optimize my test automation! (time by arrangement)

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on-site.

3. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.1.3

New Features:

A major focus for this release is performance, especially for web testing. It has been drastically improved for WebDriver mode and JxBrowser and also significantly for web testing in general. The extent of some of the effects depends on the actual application and its implementation.
Thanks to the performance improvements, recording in WebDriver mode has stabilized and should now produce the same results as in QF-Driver mode.
Recording and replay of mouse double clicks is now more intuitive and consistent across all GUI engines. In the past, a ‘Mouse event’ node with event type ‘Mouse click’ and ‘Click count’ set to 2 was shown as a ‘Double click’ event, even though it was only the second of the two clicks required to simulate a double click. Such nodes are now called ‘Followup click’ and there is a new event type ‘Double click’ that properly simulates all the individual events for a complete double click in a single node.
Test-suites can now be closed by clicking on their tab with the middle mouse button.
The procedure qfs.database.executeSelectStatement in the QF-Test standard library qfs.qft has been improved with respect to the usage of a property group for the result set. The group is now cleared before being populated with the current result and the number of records is available via the property ‘count’.
It is now possible to configure fallback values for placeholders in the template file for recording procedures.
QF-Test now shows the full path to the current test-suite as well as the QF-Test version in the title bar of the main window. This can be reduced to just the file name via the option “Show complete file path and QF-Test version in the title bar”.
WebDriver was updated for the latest Firefox and Chrome versions and QF-Test is now also compatible with the version of Microsoft Edge Browser shipped with the upcoming Windows 10 “Creators Update”.

Bugs Fixed:

Up to now resolvers were registered globally, applying to all GUI engines, which could lead to unwanted side-effects in hybrid applications. By setting the ‘GUI engine’ attribute in the ‘SUT script’ node that registers the resolver it is now possible to restrict the resolver to the desired engine.
QF-Test now works around an issue in Jython 2.7 that prevented QF-Test startup in case the user’s home directory contained international characters.
Groovy was updated to version 2.4.8 which fixes a leak of PermGen space in Java 7.
When stopping recording too quickly, the last recorded events, checks, components or procedures could get lost. Synchronization with the SUT has been improved so that this should now happen only in cases of extreme load.
When switching between projects the expansion state of the tree nodes in the project view was lost.
Summary output of a batch run with -verbose [] did not conform to the information displayed in the status bar and in the report.
JxBrowser components with preloaded content are properly handled now.
‘Text input’ nodes now also work for embedded browsers (FX WebView, JxBrowser and SWT embedded browsers) if ‘Replay single events’ is deactivated. Replay of single events also mostly works, but the events have to be simulated as hard events which is currently possible on Windows only.
Some TEXT nodes in a web application were treated as disabled in WebDriver mode.
After page modifications the WebDriver-API did not always assign the correct QF-Test component for a WebDriver element.
Closing a secondary window of an Edge browser could inadvertently terminate the whole browser process. Also, browser shutdown in WebDriver mode has been improved for all browsers.
Several issues for the embedded WebView browser in JavaFX have been fixed, including mutation handling, refresh and goto commands and return values from evalJS.
Firefox settings are now only made persistent in the test profile if the system property “qftest.web.mozilla.save_profile” is set to true during browser startup.
The QF-Test installation now includes libraries for the embedded Chrome browser in QF-Driver mode that are required for hardware accelerated graphics.
On Linux, tests for Eclipse with embedded JavaFX components could cause a hard deadlock at Gtk level. This has been fixed for Eclipse/SWT versions 4.3 and higher.

QF-Test Version 4.1.2 Released

2017-01-13T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.1.2 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

QF-Test Version 4.1.2 Released
Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinars
QFS at the OOP Conference in Munich
Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.1.2

We wish you a successful, healthy and peaceful New Year,

Your QFS Team

PS. In Germany two companies are looking for employees with QF-test knowledge. In India, a QF-Test user is interested in a career move. You can find details on our career page.

1. QF-Test Version 4.1.2 Released

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.1.2

Besides bug-fixes this version also introduces a number of new features, among them updated support for Eclipse/SWT based on the recently release Eclipse version 4.6 SR2.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 can be found in the Release Notes in section 4 in this newsletter or online.

Users with a valid QF-Test license of 4.1 can directly update to QF-Test version 4.1.2.
Licenses for QF-Test 4.0 are also still valid for the interim period until 2017-02-28.

2. Next QF-Test Training Dates and Special Webinars

Training via Webinar

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our open trainings via web seminar:

Feb 27 – March 02, 2017, English (German version two weeks before)

Training at QFS

If you prefer face-to-face training, we recommend to participate in our QF-Test training at QFS.

March 14-16, 2017, German (only)

Special webinars

January 24, 2017 (German version one day before)

Component recognition for Java - Optimization with resolvers and generic components (time by arrangement)

Component recognition for Web and AJAX applications – optimization via CustomWebResolver (time by arrangement)

Announcement: On April 25, 2017 Martin Moser will repeat the webinar about the release of QF-Test 4.1 because of high demand.

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on site.

3. QFS at the OOP Conference in Munich

In the end of January 2017 the OOP conference (Object oriented programming) will again take place in Munich. Software quality has now also reached the heart of this developer conference: For the first time the German Testing Board is going to be a gold sponsor.

From 2017-01-31 to 2017-02-02 Martin Moser and other QFS colleagues will present the latest version of QF-Test at the QFS stand. We are looking forward to your visit! You can also make an appointment in advance for a demo or specific questions.

4. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.1.2

New Features:

Support for Eclipse/SWT 4.6 “Neon” has been updated for Eclipse version 4.6 SR2.
Note: The mechanism for auto-scaling SWT-based UIs on high-DPI monitors is still deactivated by default when the SWT plugin is instrumented by QF-Test. The property to re-enable it has been renamed to swt.autoScale in SWT version 4.6 SR2.
Resolvers are a panacea for all kinds of component recognition problems. To make them easier to write QF-Test 4.1 introduced an updated resolvers module which is now implemented by a rewrite of section 41.1 which makes resolvers more accessible than ever.
The names of all registered resolvers can now be retrieved by calling the method resolvers.listNames().
When performing automatic re-run of nodes, the beginning of an attempt is now logged as both a message and an annotation. The doctags for automatic re-run have been extended to enable catching a specific exception and to suppress log messages. See section 16.3 for further information.
The ‘QF-Test ID’ of a ‘Test-case’ or ‘Test-set’ node can now be retrieved at test execution time via ${qftest:testcase.id} or ${qftest:testset.id}.
It is now possible to transform ‘Check items’ into ‘Check selectable items’ nodes and vice versa.
If the value for the command line argument -usercfg or -systemcfg points to a directory, the configuration file is now read from or created within the specified directory.
When editing options QF-Test now shows a warning in case a configuration file cannot be written.

Bugs Fixed:

QF-Test now logs a warning in case the engine of a component retrieved by calling rc.getComponent in an ‘SUT script’ node does not match the engine executing the script. Starting with the medium upgrade QF-Test 4.2 this will cause an exception. Trying to pass a component of the wrong GUI engine to rc.overrideElement leads to an exception right away.
When editing the details of a node and closing the test-suite without confirming the edit first, the changes were discarded.
In case a resolver fails with an exception, other registered resolvers are executed anyway, like they were in QF-Test 4.0.
QF-Test now removes temporary files created by WebDriver implementations.
Cells in custom Table components with non-standard cell ordering are addressed correctly now.
QF-Test could cause a deadlock in Eclipse/SWT applications with multiple Display instances.
When fetching the geometry of items in a web application the values for the parent component were retrieved instead.
For web applications leading and trailing whitespace is now removed from names returned from NameResolvers.
Automatic scrolling for image checks on items was broken in web applications.

Special Webinars with Martin Moser

2017-01-10T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

I hope you are well and had a good start into 2017.

We all wish to have stable and robust tests with low maintenance. You know the preconditions for variable component recognition of QF-Test or have heard about them in a training or in the special webinar in July. On this basis I want to deepen your knowledge on January 24 for Java (Resolvers and generic components) and web technologies (additionally with “CustomWebResolver”).

January 24, 2017, time by arrangement: Component recognition for Java - Optimization with resolvers and generic components

January 24, 2017, time by arrangement: Component recognition for Web and AJAX applications – optimization via CustomWebResolver

(German versions the day before)

A session (duration 1.5 hours) costs EUR 125 per participant (net). Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

Find here more details on the technology used and other information on our webinar services and on training and consulting.

Best regards,

Martin Moser, trainer and consultant

P.S.: You’re welcome to bring your questions to the webinar, but please focus to those of general interest. Individual questions can be clarified subsequently to the session or at a separate schedule.

QF-Test Version 4.1.1 Released

2016-11-23T00:00:00+01:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

QF-Test 4.1.1 is now available for download.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

QF-Test Version 4.1.1 Released
Next QF-Test Training Dates via Webinar and Special Webinars
QFS at the OOP Conference in Munich
Release Notes of QF-Test Version 4.1.1

Thank you and with best regards,

Your QFS Team

1. QF-Test Version 4.1.1 Released

Download-Link for QF-Test 4.1.1

Besides fixing several bugs, this release also includes a number of new features, among them a handy new filter for quickly locating test-suites in large projects and improved key bindings for macOS.

The detailed list of differences between QF-Test version 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 can be found in the Release Notes in section 4 in this newsletter or online.

Users with a valid QF-Test license of 4.1 can directly update to QF-Test version 4.1.1. Licenses for QF-Test 4.0 are also still valid for the interim period until 2016-02-28.

2. Next QF-Test Training Dates via Webinar and Special Webinars

You can save travel time and expenses by participating in one of our open trainings via web seminar:

Feb 27 – March 02, 2017, English

January 24, 2017 (German version one day before)

Component recognition for Java - Optimization with resolvers and generic components (time by arrangement)

Component recognition for Web and AJAX applications – optimization via CustomWebResolver (time by arrangement)

Announcement: In March 2017 Martin Moser will hold the webinar about the release of QF-Test 4.1 because of high demand again.

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on site.

3. QFS at the OOP Conference in Munich

In the end of January 2017 the OOP conference (Object oriented programming) will take place in Munich. Software quality has now also reached the heart of this developer conference: For the first time the German Testing Board is going to be a gold sponsor.

4. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.1.1

New Features:

The project view now comes with a filter at the top of the tree that matches on test-suite names and limits the hierarchy accordingly, which is very useful for quickly finding test-suites in large projects.
On macOS all keyboard shortcuts should now be conforming to Mac standards and use Mac-friendly modifier keys.
Selenium WebDriver was updated to version 3.0.1.
The documentation and samples for keyword driven testing have been extended with a new example for behavior driven testing (BDT).
The parameters for the @rerun doctag were extended to include a newerrorlevel=keep option and the new keepfirst parameter.
The ‘Execution timeout’ attribute is now also available for ‘Test-step’ nodes.

Bugs Fixed:

QF-Test did not start if the Java version for QF-Test was still instrumented by an older QF-Test version (pre 4.1). Though JRE instrumentation has been deprecated for many years, such a case is still possible. QF-Test now detects that situation and helps with deinstrumentation of the JRE.
The test for busy panes was missing when performing a check using the generic retry mechanism introduced in QF-Test 4.1.0.
When interactively selecting a component for an event node the current target was not pre-selected in the chooser dialog.
Trying to update failed checks from the error list after closing the originating run-log caused an unexpected exception.
When using the databinder.bindList API for performing data-driven testing, QF-Test now ignores empty lists instead of running a single iteration without data.
When importing test results into TestLink, skipped test-cases are now correctly reported as skipped.
The former WebDriver API was renamed to WebDriverConnection to avoid confusion with Selenium’s WebDriver object.
The error message for expiration of a -timeout command line argument of a batch call now clearly refers to the -timeout argument instead of the root node of the test-suite.
In large projects editing component IDs in parameter tables no longer causes delays while QF-Test is looking for the component to highlight.
When searching through a project with an invalid regular expression many errors messages were shown instead of just one.
Short timeouts for visible false checks on components were not honored.
If the option “Instrument AWT EventQueue” is active, QF-Test now establishes a connection with the awt:security engine in case Java WebStart shows an authentication dialog. Please note that in such a case the ‘GUI engine’ attribute of the ‘Wait for client to connect’ node must be set to awt:security.
Class resolution for AJAX toolkits was broken for some special cases.
The editable check didn’t work for TextFields in the PrimeFaces toolkit.
When recording a click that triggers an alert dialog in WebDriver mode, the order of the recorded events was not always correct.
Auto-detection for AJAX toolkit resolvers has been improved. It now prints concise messages to the terminal and cleanly handles the case when no toolkit is detected.

Medium Upgrade QF-Test 4.1 Released

2016-10-07T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

We are proud to present QF-Test version 4.1.0, a medium upgrade with so many new features and improvements that it could easily have been relabeled as a new major version.

It wasn’t always planned that way. After Mozilla broke the embedded browser support with Firefox version 44 we were forced to implement alternatives in order to restore QF-Test/web compatibility with the latest browsers. This took some time but the results speak for themselves.

By adopting the Selenium WebDriver standard QF-Test now supports Edge and Safari besides the latest Firefox versions as well as Chrome now on Linux and macOS, including capabilities for combining QF-Test and Selenium based tests – all that in addition to the traditional QF-Driver support for Internet Explorer and Chrome on Windows and Firefox on Windows and Linux which now has 64bit browser support and continues to be fully supported and maintained.

All that took our web team less than a year, time that was used by the rest of the team for many other significant improvements listed below.

Topics of this edition of our newsletter:

Highlights of QF-Test Version 4.1
Backwards Compatibility
License Updates for QF-Test 4.1 and License Server Option
Special Webinar to introduce QF-Test 4.1
Release Notes for QF-Test version 4.1.0

Thank you and with best regards,

Your QFS Team

1. Highlights of QF-Test 4.1

Additional browsers via Selenium WebDriver, includes Firefox 44 and up, Edge and Safari and Chrome on the operating systems supported by the browsers. In addition, Selenium scripts can be executed from QF-Test and both approaches can be mixed.
Dedicated QF-Test App for macOS with support for Swing, Java FX and Web.
Eclipse plugin with special Run Configurations that combine starting the SUT, launching QF-Test and possibly running initial test-steps directly from Eclipse.
Jython update to version 2.7, Groovy to version 2.4.7.
License server mechanism with global floating instead of just across the local network.
64 bit browser support on all systems.
Support for the AJAX framework Kendo UI.
Improved synchronization for web tests.
Support for component resolution via XPath and CSS-selectors.
Alternative connection mechanism for Swing with improved support for Java WebStart, applets or custom EventQueues.
Execution timeout to execution time for individual sequences, test-cases, test-sets or whole batch runs.
Capabilities to re-execute failed test-cases or sequences automatically or manually from the run-log.
Merging run-logs.
Generic retry, a smarter way of replay that better handles timing issues, especially components that vanish or get replaced just while QF-Test was trying to access them.
Locating procedures or components with variable names/IDs.
Updates to the QF-Test manual include new chapters about keyword-driven testing and load-testing as well as a major rewrite of important topics and more comprehensive documentation for QF-Test’s pseudo DOM API.

For a detailed list of innovations since QF-Test version 4.0.11 please see the release notes for QF-Test versions 4.1.0-rc1 through 4.1.0 in the QF-Test manual.

Changes between QF-Test version 4.1.0-rc2 and 4.1.0 are listed in the release notes in section 4 below.

You can download the latest QF-Test version and try it.

2. Backwards Compatibility

QF-Test 4.1 is mostly backwards compatible to QF-Test 4.0. However, in some cases you may need to set certain options, downgrade features or install legacy packages in order to retain compatibility. These are explained in detail in appendix B.1.2 and B.1.3 of the manual. Here is a short summary:

Jython 2.7 requires Java 7 or higher, Groovy 2.4 requires at least Java 6.
The new Swing connection mechanism handles even very tricky Swing SUTs that implement their own EventQueue, especially in combination with WebStart or applets. In case of problems it can be disabled via the option “Instrument AWT EventQueue”.
Google has completely dropped support for Java applets in Chrome. This includes the Chrome browser embedded by QF-Test which was updated to CEF version 45.
Official support has been dropped for Java 5, Java 6, Internet Explorer 10 and older, Firefox 37 and older as well as Eclipse/SWT 3.8 and older.

QFS is taking pains to support even very old software. QF-Test should still run, for example, under Windows XP or – after downgrading Jython and Groovy – with an SUT based on Java 5 or 6 but for systems that are no longer supported by their own vendors we cannot provide full support.

The libraries that are required for the Firefox and Eclipse/SWT versions listed above are no longer part of the default installation of QF-Test. The majority is still being maintained, albeit with limited testing. For Eclipse/SWT 3.5 – 3.8 simply download swt_legacy.zip and extract the contents into the swt directory of your QF-Test installation. For support of older browsers, please get in touch with QFS.

3. License Updates for QF-Test 4.1 and License Server Option

To ease the transition to QF-Test version 4.1, it can be used with a license for QF-Test version 4.0 until February 28, 2017. Please make use of this transition period to update your QF-Test licenses to version 4.1.

Users with a valid Maintenance Agreement are entitled to this medium upgrade for free. Without Maintenance Agreement the fee for upgrading from version 4.0 to version 4.1 is 20% of the current license price.

The server itself is free of charge and server licenses are very reasonably priced. If interested, please get in touch with our sales team for more information and an individual offer.

4. Special Webinar to introduce QF-Test 4.1

Martin Moser continues his popular special webinars with an in-depth session about the new features in QF-Test 4.1. A web seminar session lasts about 1.5 hours and costs 125 EUR (net) per participant. Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

October 25, 2017 (German version one day before)

WebDriver, Re-run… what benefits are in there for me? Using the new QF-Test 4.1 features to optimize my test automation!

And of course you can always book training or consulting individually for you and your company or on site.

5. Release Notes for QF-Test Version 4.1.0 (since QF-Test 4.1 RC2)

New features:

The re-run capabilities are now officially available and documented.
The QF-Test Jenkins plugin was updated for Jenkins version 2.1.
On macOS QF-Test now uses the standard key bindings for that system. Users that prefer Windows bindings (or simply have gotten used to QF-Test’s non-Mac bindings) can keep them via the command line argument -keybindings=classic.
The QF-Test macOS App now includes a bundled JRE so manual JRE installation is no longer required.
Support for the AJAX toolkit Vaadin was updated so that the Vaadin resolver can now be customized.
When debugging tests, QF-Test now shows a warning when ‘Continue execution from here’ is attempted on a node that is not part of the current execution stack as doing so would lose the current variable bindings.
Chooser dialogs now include a search filter.
It is now possible to directly highlight the target component via the popup menu for QF-Test IDs contained in variable tables or rc.getComponent statements in SUT scripts.

Bugs fixed:

The QF-Test Java Configuration Tool (qfconfig) always displayed the default Java program upon startup.
The small arrows showing tree node execution state were not always displayed correctly.
Errors resulting from execution timeout are now shown correctly in the report.
In WebDriver mode QF-Test now avoids starting two Chrome instances with the same user profile directory.
Jars in the QF-Test plugin directory could interfere with the startup of a WebDriver based SUT.
Alerts can now be handled on all WebDriver based browsers.

Special webinar with Martin Moser

2016-09-29T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

May I invite you to my latest ‘special webinar’.

WebDriver, Re-run… what benefits are in there for me? Using the new QF-Test 4.1 features to optimize my test automation!

October 25, 2016, time by arrangement: WebDriver, Re-run… what benefits are in there for me? Using the new QF-Test 4.1 features to optimize my test automation!
(German version the day before)

A session (duration 1.5 hours) costs EUR 125 per participant (net). Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

Best regards,

Martin Moser, trainer and consultant

P.S.: This presentation series will continue on January 24, 2017: Component recognition for Java - Optimization with resolvers and generic components and also for Web and AJAX applications – optimization via CustomWebResolver.

More details on the technology used and other information on our webinar services can be found at
Webinars and Reviews and on training and consulting.

Special webinar with Martin Moser

2016-08-25T00:00:00+02:00

Dear QF-Test users and interested parties,

May I invite you to my latest ‘special webinar’ meant to refresh and deepen your knowledge about ‘Dependencies’, a major tool for building reliable tests.

‘Dependencies’ in QF-Test – it’s like magic: Smart management of test preconditions and global error recovery.

‘Dependencies’ are a very mature, albeit a bit complex feature of QF-Test. I will start by showing you the most important concepts of QF-Test like control flow, variable binding and error handling before beginning the usage of ‘Dependencies’. By the end we’ll have implemented ‘Dependencies’ that seem like magic when different, unrelated test-cases are executed and all setup and cleanup is handled automatically. Furthermore ‘Dependencies’ are indispensable for the execution of tests in daemon mode.

September 20, 2016, 10.30 – 12 a.m. CEST: ‘Dependencies’ in QF-Test – it’s like magic: Smart management of test preconditions and global error recovery.
(German version the day before)

A session (duration 1.5 hours) costs EUR 125 per participant (net). Reserve your seat via webinar@qftest.com or +49 8171 38648-10.

You’re welcome to bring your questions to the webinar, but please focus to those of general interest. Individual questions can be clarified subsequently to the session or at a separate schedule.

Best regards,

Martin Moser, trainer and consultant

PS: More details on the technology used and other information on our training and consulting services can be found at:
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