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This patch provides required updates for the SWT libraries in today’s final release of Eclipse 4.5 “Mars”.

That is the question - at least when you are planning your automated web-GUI testing. To support your decision process, we prepared a comparison matrix with the main pros and cons for both tools. A point in favor of QF-Test may be that the tool offers both developers and testers an easy start of a comfortable, cross-browser testing requiring no major customization.Features web testing

Quality prevails: With pride and joy we welcome our 1000th customer, afb Application Services AG from Munich. In terms of Quality Assurance afb, a leading pan-European full service provider for the optimization of financing processes for banks and leasing companies, employs QF-Test as a professional and powerful tool to automate their GUI tests. Premium software quality is of high importance for afb. The launch of QF-Test was very efficiently organized: in a workshop with our experts a solid framework for test automation was created. A smooth start with QF-Test has been guaranteed and will prevent potential design flaws, individual problems and later time-consuming maintenance.Details

Besides support for Firefox versions 38 and 39 this release improves interaction with JavaFX, adds checks for tooltips and fixes various issues.

Then please read the results of recent evaluations:After having evaluated QF-Test, I personally consider your tool to be the best on the market! Kay Dörnemann, Senior Software Engineer, Accso GmbH, Darmstadt.QF-Test’s benefits are: easy to use, good documentation, excellent recognition of our Swing components. I would definitely recommend your tool to anyone who is working in automated testing. Abdi Khalid, Project Analyst, Brussels Regional Informatics Centre, Brussels, Belgium.Trial license, More evalimonials

Troubleshooting component recognition issues will be the topic of QFS’ next two special webinars offered by our senior trainer Martin Moser on April 14, separately for Java and Web. The sessions are going to take 1.5 hours each and cost 100 € per participant and webinar. German versions are offered at April 13. For reservations or further information please contact sales@qfs.de or +49 8171 386 48-0. Details

This patch fixes a crash of Firefox 36 and 37 on Windows during check recording.

The highlights of this release are support for 64bit Firefox on Linux and the newly added support for the AJAX framework jQuery EasyUI. Also included are updates for Firefox 36 and 37 as well as for Eclipse/SWT 4.4 SR2.

Reserve your seat in our next webinar compact training in English on March 2-5, 2015 (two sessions 1,5 h each per day) - and learn how to use QF-Test most efficiently.Training feedback of a Fortune 100 company, USA:Thanks much for an excellent, really outstanding training […]. Please give your staff and your team my thanks and appreciation for a well-honed and effective seminar. Details, Trainimonials

This release improves support for web applications based on GWT as well as hybrid Java FX and Swing applications, including those with a shared event dispatch thread. It also includes updates for Firefox versions 35 and 36, Eclipse version 4.5M4 and the recent Java updates to versions 8u31 and 7u75/7u76.

We’d like to inform you about a recent article published on JAXenter. Wolfgang Weigend, Senior Systems Consultant at Oracle Germany, describes the importance and benefits of GUI tests for critical JavaFX business applications exemplarily with QF-Test.Article, Features QF-Test/fx

We’d like to thank you for your confidence and loyalty over the last year and wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!! During our Christmas party we decorated a paper Christmas tree with some glittering events of the QFS year. Please feel invited to follow the link below for more details.Details

This patch brings support for Firefox 34 and 35.

Act now to secure a place in our next compact course in German language at the QFS headquarters in Wolfratshausen near Munich - and to explore how to use QF-Test highly efficiently. Recommendation of a course participant: “I was fully pleased with the course. Both the training and the product (QF-Test) are very professional.” Details

This patch brings support for Firefox 34 on par with the official Firefox release this week and for the upcoming Firefox version 35.

QFS attended W-JAX 14 in Munich last week as exhibitor with our senior consultant Martin Moser presenting the latest QF-Test version at our booth live.There was a lot of interest in testing all the different GUI technologies - both Java and Web - with a predominance of AJAX. QF-Test’s special capabilities in reducing the testing complexity has convinced the audience.Details

This release includes important updates for Firefox versions 33 and 34, Eclipse version 4.4 SR1 and the recent Java updates to versions 8u25 and 7u71/7u72.

This release candidate for the upcoming version QF-Test 4.0.2 provides support for Firefox 33 and fixes a critical WebStart issue caused by the latest Java updates 7u71, 7u72 and 8u25.The final QF-Test 4.0.2 version is going to follow next week after more thorough testing with these Java updates. Unless you require one of the technologies above, we recommend to wait until then.

With Java8 Oracle determines JavaFX as the successor of the good old Swing GUI toolkit. However, Oracle not only cares about development but also about how users will be able to test their FX applications.Actually, QF-Test is the answer as it supports JavaFX in a professional way like no other tool, as confirmed by Oracle. QF-Test provides seamless support for JavaFX GUI testing even in combination with Swing or embedded web browser components. Thanks for all the positive feedback we received so far!About QF-Test for Java

As a specialized tool for GUI test automation QF-Test now also can be integrated with SQS-TEST/Professional Suite from SQS and interoperates seamlessly with this system without special requirements for the integration.SQS-TEST/Professional is an extensive test management framework, covering everything from requirement management through test case development and execution to integration of test-results into a comprehensive report system.Details