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Component recognition for web pages especially in combination with AJAX toolkits means a particular challenge in UI testing. By use of a so called CustomWebResolver in QF-Test you can adapt and significantly improve recognition for your web application. This course is offered on October 6th by our senior trainer Martin Moser and ist suitable for developers and advanced users interested in web testing. The session is going to take 1.5 hours and costs 100 € per participant. For reservations or further information please contact sales@qftest.com or +49 8171 386 48-0. Details

This release mainly brings support for Firefox 41 and Ext JS 6, but it also includes fixes for various subtle issues in all GUI engines and is a generally recommended update.

The introductory videos ‘The Quickstart Wizard’ and its variant for web applications ‘The Quickstart Wizard Web’ show how to begin working with your own application. The two hands-on guides for handling ComponentNotFoundExceptions in simple and more complex cases should be very helpful for beginners as well as experienced QF-Test users.Videos

QF-Test is now ready for Windows 10, except that of course Microsoft’s new browser Edge is not supported yet.  Besides the updates for Firefox versions 38.1 ESR, 39 and 40 as well as Eclipse/SWT 4.5, which were already released as patches, this release includes support for the AJAX toolkit RAP at version 3.0 and tests for Java FX on Mac OS X run much better now.

This patch fixes a crash of Firefox 39 on Windows, caused by changes to the memory management shortly before the release of Firefox 39. It also fixes handling of Firefox version 38.1 ESR and adds experimental support for Firefox 40.

Optimize your use of QF-Test by scripting languages – basic course suitable for testers and non-developers, too. Our senior trainer and consultant Martin Moser offers opportunity in English language for Jython on July 6th and Groovy on July 7th, both in the afternoon. German versions are offered in the morning respectively. The sessions are going to take 1.5 hours each and cost 100 € per participant and webinar. For reservations or further information please contact sales@qftest.com or +49 8171 386 48-0. Details

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-UI 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 UI 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.

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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@qftest.com 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 UI tests for critical JavaFX business applications exemplarily with QF-Test.Article, Features QF-Test/fx