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Automated PDF Testing

What is possible in PDF Testing with QF-Test?

Often PDF documents are the final result of a business process, you can test this comfortably with QF-Test.

  • Check of content, text, images/graphical objects
  • Comparison of two PDF documents
  • Verifying layouts and making sure that no content is outside the visible area
  • Access “invisible” or partially hidden objects
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The Quickstart Wizard for PDF

When testing PDF documents all this is possible: Checking of content, texts, images/geometry and comparisons.

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.

Our approach on Testing PDFs
  • Just like with the other UIs, QF-Test can test PDFs by detecting individual objects.
  • The properties of the objects can be tested, such as font, font size, images, geometry and position.
  • You can use the full functionality of QF-Test – record, replay, checks, scripting, resolvers, etc.
Further information in the manual
Image comparisons as a helpful feature for PDF testing

Pixel picking – intelligent image comparisons

Video about image comparisons
Blog article about image comparisons
More information in the manual
“We use QF-Test to verify our generated monthly statements in PDF format. We can easily verify the information on each PDF page. The check image feature makes it easy to verify our client’s company logo, and the check text works well in both English and Japanese. We also like the feature that a screenshot is taken when a test failed.”
Riana Subroto, Automation Engineer,
Energy Services Group (ESG), Norwell, USA
“We are now testing different processes, such as interfaces, document creation and posting while taking various master data into account, or printing invoices with a subsequent check of the generated PDF file. Works great!to the detailed case study”
Leonhard Zentgraf,
CSS AG, Künzell, Germany
“The ability to test PDF documents with QF-Test, even multi-page ones that contain text, logos, signatures, etc. and are generated dynamically, allows us to check the documents immediately per release (without further loss of visibility). If even a single pixel was different than expected, we would know immediately. Then the question is whether it is an error or a change in the business or in IT (but that is another topic).”
Mengoli, Marco (Test Management | Produkt Standardgeschäft P&C),
AXA Versicherungen AG, Switzerland
“The PDF client is ideal to verify any dynamic text-content generation and the region picture recognition is amazing to check positioning and image/logo building. QF-Test is great for PDF testing!”
Raphaël Rothenflug, Team Leader Software Test Automation, Quality Assurance,
Swiss AviationSoftware Ltd.

QF-Test in comparison

Compared to the competing product Tosca, QF-Test offers various advantages as a mature tool for test automation.

QF-Test vs. Tosca

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Benefits for QA engineers
How does QF-Test support testers in doing test automation? Intuitive usability & clear structure, efficient test creation, maintenance & debugging.
Benefits for software developers
API access, Java, Groovy, Jython & JavaScript, unit integration, modularization of extensive tests, abstraction of complex UI components.
Benefits for decision-makers
Fast ROI, faster in the market, low maintenance effort, established for 20 years, daily monitoring, better quality.

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