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QF-Test is multi-lingual - and many of our users are, too. In this post we explain how you can control the interface language of QF-Test.

We are always working on improving component recognition in QF-Test. With QF-Test 6.0 we introduced a completely new paradigm: SmartID

How I used SAX, multi-threading, and token-based parsing to develop a (much!) faster XML comparison library.

The version number of QF-Test and in the license file - How are they related?

Lilia Gargouri is head of the mgm Quality Team together with Martin Varendorff. In this interview, she describes for us how she found her way to QF-Test, what’s important to her in test automation, and about her hopes for the closer cooperation between our companies in the future.

La relation entre les testeurs et les développeurs de logiciels peut être tendue. Mais si chacun est libre d’apporter ses compétences et son point de vue, nous pourrons créer ensemble de grands logiciels.

Le mercredi 27 avril 2022 au salon de l”emploi de Bad Tölz. QFS était représenté en tant qu”exposant avec Yann Spöri, Martina Schmid et le babyfoot de l”entreprise mentionné plus haut. Des jeunes de différentes écoles nous ont rendu visite - certes surtout attirés par le baby-foot.

Les règles strictes de la CSP rendent plus difficile de les tester avec Firefox à partir de la version 99.

Today on first april we finally succeeded in a promising experiment for the automatic redesign of QF-Test - how useful the blockchain technology can be.

In March of 2022, part of our development team visited the JavaLand conference. Here are some impressions from the event.

Day in, day out, our diligent support team answers our customers’ questions. Here are some of their answers about data drivers, error message filtering, and variable defaults.

Running multiple tests at once could improve test execution time a lot (if raw system performance is not a bottleneck) while saving lots of infrastructure overhead because everything can run on one machine.

Sure, a team of testers can handle extensive test projects faster and better than a single person. But some things that may seem simple at first actually can become much more difficult when working in a team.

Quality First Software GmbH is 20 years old. We asked all colleagues to share their first memories with us.

FX est-il encore en vie ? Du point de vue de QFS, nous pouvons répondre à cette question par un »oui« clair : JavaFX est bien vivant et a été utilisé via QF-Test/FX dans de multiples grands projets depuis 2014.

Ces derniers jours, une vulnérabilité dans la bibliothèque open source populaire log4j a été signalée, surnommée Log4shell. QF-Test n”est pas (et n’a pas été) vulnérable à cette attaque, pour un certain nombre de raisons.

Excel files can be read into QF-Test using a simple procedure call where the procedure qfs.utils.files.readExcelFile must be called.

QF-Test natively supports testing websites with Chrome, Firefox, Edge, some others and even good old Internet Explorer. But there are plenty of other, lesser-known browsers that you might still want to run your tests with, such as Chromium, Brave, Iron, Vivaldi and Yandex.

The TestRunListener interface can be used to execute additional actions before or after the execution of each node or in the case of any exception / error. This actions can (for example) be used for testdocumentation or error analysis. In the following some TestRunListeners are introduced (Jython server scripts).

It is relatively easy to take a screenshot of the complete picture with the help of QF-Test. For example, to create a screenshot of the current desktop, only the procedure logScreenshot must be called.