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Version 3.4 Milestone 1 marks the start of the new QF-Test version 3.4 and the end of the separation into development and production versions.The many new features in this release range from technical aspects like improved memory management to design and usability tuning like the advanced search capabilities and updated workbench view.The new ‘HTTP Request’ node enables direct interaction with web servers while bypassing the browser altogether.

To make them come and stay – skilled employees are scarce. IHK business magazine researched what entrepreneurs can do to get good staff and establish a long-term binding to the company. QFS was a most welcome example.Details (PDF, German only), Press

Version 3.3.0 is the first release on the new development branch of QF-Test. This version comes with a bunch of new features. Highlights are updated versions of Jython (2.5.1) and Groovy (1.7.2), support for Eclipse 3.6.1, experimental support for Firefox 4 and IE 9, integration with Hudson CI and fault-tolerant image checks.

The new tool combination of QFS’ QF-Test and QualiSystems’ TestShell which already is in use by several telecom industry leaders enables automated regression and load testing for complex GUIs based on Swing, SWT, AJAX, HTML, Eclipse plug-ins, RCP applications, ULC, CaptainCasa, Java applets and Java WebStart in combination with a wide range of network protocols, script languages and test instruments.Details, Press

QFS was awarded with a regional business prize for reconcilability of job and family. The award was part of the yearly Bad Tölz – Wolfratshausen district business reception.Details, Press

Martin Moser, Senior Consultant and Trainer at QFS, will give a presentation at the Eclipse Testing Day 2010 titled: “Preventing Bananaware: Test automation from a user’s perspective for RCP applications”. The one-day conference will take place on September 8th in Darmstadt, Germany.Details

Version 3.2.2 is a maintenance release for the production branch 3.2 of QF-Test. Besides fixing a few bugs it adds support for Eclipse / SWT 3.6 “Helios” and multi selection in an SWT FileDialog.

On July 13th, 2010, Martin Moser, Senior Consultant and Trainer at QFS, will give a (German) presentation at ASQF (Association for Software Quality and Further Education) – Group South in Munich titled: Stable GUI Tests by use of a modular Testing Architecture. Details

Version 3.2.1 is the first maintenance release on the production branch 3.2 of QF-Test. The focus of this release is fixing bugs, there is no new functionality.

Version 3.2.0 is the first release on the new production branch of QF-Test. New features cover all aspects from extended functionality (Web testing in combination with Java applets, detailed reports), improved user experience (no more JDK instrumentation, workbench view, incremental search), additional documentation (‘Best Practices’ part in the manual) to extensibility with several new APIs.

This development version serves as a prerelease for the coming production release 3.2 of QF-Test. It focuses on completion and stabilization of the many new features introduced over the last year.

This new development version focuses on stabilizing the new workbench view and an enhanced report with ‘Test-step’ nodes for structuring ‘Test cases’.

QFS presents itself and the latest version of QF-Test in November 2009 at the W-JAX conference in Munich, Germany.Details

This latest development version comes with many new features and improvements especially for QF-Test’s user interface and adds support for interacting with the popular open source test management tool TestLink.

QFS presents itself and the latest version of QF-Test in October 2009 at ASQT 2009 – User Conference Software Quality and Test in Klagenfurt, Austia.Details

An add-on for QF-Test 3.1.1 and 3.0.3 with support for the latest Eclipse / SWT version is now available.

Besides fixing a number of bugs this version on the production branch mainly provides bidirectional compatibility with the new check mechanism in the current development version.

Highlights of this new version on the development branch are completion of the new check mechanism with custom check support for all check data types and user-defined bookmarks for faster navigation. The new ClassNameResolver is a major milestone for AJAX web testing, where it significantly improves component recognition.

The patch versions 3.0.2-p2 and 3.1.0-p1 provide support for the new version of Eclipse 3.5 “Galileo”.

Version 3.1.0 is the first release on the new development branch of QF-Test.This version comes with a bunch of new features. Highlights are combined testing of a web page and its embedded Java applets, automatic refactoring for calls to test cases, procedures and dependencies when their targets change and new, powerful APIs for setting options, custom checks, next-generation resolvers and monitoring of test-runs.