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This version completes support for generic classes which are now uniform for all GUI engines. Chrome support is progressing well and embedded browsers via JavaFX WebView or JxBrowser 4 can now be interacted with, capture/replay of mouse events already works.

Read our new case study about the successful usage of QF-Test at Swiss Life insurance company in Munich!Details

QF-Test version 4.0.0-beta1 adds support for JavaFX and the Chrome browser. Additional highlights include improved support for Java WebStart and Applets, support for the AJAX framework jQuery UI, generic classes for components of all GUI engines, an improved user interface with colored syntax highlighting and a new package for client-side ssh connections.

QFS not only stands for our company name – Quality First Software – but also for Quality, Fun and Sustainability: this acronym of our company philosophy resulted from an intensive “Leitbild” process in 2012/13, developing the vision and guiding principles for QFS’s future with the entire staff and under guidance of an external consultant. Details to the general orientation project , QFS corporate philosophy

Save travel time and costs and learn how to use QF-Test efficiently in our webinar (in English) from 24 to 27 March! There are two sessions, each 1.5 hr, on each of the four days, with topics covering the full range from beginner levels (e.g., capture-replay) to advanced (e.g., scripting, dependencies). The 1.5 hr modules can be booked individually or en bloc – register here under sales@qftest.com or via phone +49 8171 386 480, there are only few places left. Details

Besides updating support for Firefox versions 27 and 28 (new) as well as Eclipse / SWT 4.3 SR2 this version fixes focus issues with Java 8 and Swing.

“Reduction of complexity” is the magic formula our product QF-Test/web employs to make cross-browser web testing, especially of AJAX based applications, easy and efficient. Watch our new video demonstrating this principle in a graphic way.Features QF-Test/web

Act now to secure a place in our next compact course 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

QFS and its new partner Muth Partners (Wiesbaden, Germany) share the common goal to assist customers effectively with continuous monitoring and improvement of their software quality.Muth Partners work is based on years of experience in quality management systems and test tools, test specification, test automation, load- / performance tests and review implementation. In addition, they conduct training for ISTQB® Certified Tester.Details

We are pleased to report on the initiative of our customers hsp Handels-Software-Partner GmbH announcing about our technological partnership. Our test tool QF-Test helps hsp to examine the various aspects of GUI usability of their e-balance tool Opti.Tax for their customers reliably. Especially the combination of ease of use and structuring of highly complex IT processes has convinced them.Details (German PDF only), References

Instead of Christmas cards: We would like to thank all of you for your cooperation and support within the last year. We wish you and your families merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Like every year we contribute a fixed multi-digit number of revenues to personally best known social projects.About QFS, Non-profit organizations

The main focus of this release is on updates for Firefox versions 26 and 27 and ZK version 7 as well as synchronization of events with AJAX HTTP requests for additional toolkits.

There is a late-year qualification option for QF-Test at the date above. It pays off as a current participant stated: “Thanks to the very competent training session we are now prepared for a speedy start with QF-Test.” Boris Basic, LT Test Service Center, Suva, Luzern, Switzerland Details

The fifth World Quality Report published September 2013 by Capgemini, Sogeti and HP reveals that application Testing and Quality Assurance (QA) has become increasingly important to organizations. While in 2012 about 18 percent of the total IT budget was spent on average on QA, the percentage has grown to up to a quarter of the budget in 2013. German businesses are still at the forefront of quality maturity. The report further indicates that increasing complexity of test-architectures and their handling still pose difficulties.Details

We are pleased to share the following great statement from the Münchener Verein Insurance Group: “With QF-Test we made a fresh start after aiming to improve the cost-benefit ratio, especially in the support area of tool vendors. After two years of intensive use, QF-Test and the outstanding support from QFS have more than confirmed this decision.”

This release introduces support for the AJAX toolkit ICEfaces, adds support for Firefox versions 24 and 25 and further improves Java WebStart startup.

This maintenance release improves handling of Java WebStart and applets after the latest Java security fixes from Oracle and comes with updated support for Eclipse / SWT 4.3 “Kepler”, Firefox 22 and 23 and Testlink 1.9.7.

The highlight of this release is newly added support for the AJAX toolkits PrimeFaces and ZK, complemented by updates for RAP 2 and Vaadin 7, version updates for Firefox 21 and 22 as well as for the upcoming Eclipse / SWT 4.3 “Kepler”

This “dot-zero” release QF-Test version 3.5.0 completes the main feature set of QF-Test version 3.5 and the parallel release of version 3.4.14 marks the end of the release cycle for QF-Test 3.4.Both versions add support for Firefox 20 and Eclipse / SWT 4.2.2/3.8.2 and work around a bug in recent JREs that could cause batch execution to simply stop in the middle of a test.

QFS presented itself and the latest version of QF-Test at OOP 2013 in Munich.Details