Decades of Leadership in the Software Testing Industry

AscentialTest has been forming in the minds of our founders for several years. After building QA Partner/SilkTest at Segue Software in the 90s, they got the opportunity to use their product extensively in the field. As consultants implementing test automation with various tools for more than 10 years, they’ve formed a thorough assessment of the state of the field. What they found surprised them: automated tests were too expensive to build.

Furthermore, the requirement for programming skills to move beyond the superficial tests that can be recorded left out too many members of the team. They also discovered that a large portion of test development time is spent ‘writing code’ to workaround object recognition deficiencies. Some users estimate that time to approach 80%. Clearly this explains why the decision to adopt automation is not always straightforward. With a fresh understanding of the challenges and our heads full of ideas, we’re energized and excited to bring about the next paradigm shift in test automation.

Brian has been working in the field of test automation for more than 30 years. Brian began as a QA Engineer using the testing tools available in the early 1980’s. He joined Segue Software in its infancy and served as the EVP of R&D during that company’s golden years. Brian formed Star Quality, a consulting firm specializing in test automation in the late 90s. After 12 years of experience in the trenches, he’s excited to be building the next generation testing tool that will increase the productivity and and effectiveness of test and development teams.

Dave is a pioneer in the field of automated testing. Dave developed ATF, one of the first automation tools, more than 20 yeas ago. He was a founder and Chief Architect of Segue Software, Inc., the original creators of QA Partner/SilkTest. Dave believes that no testing tool can be easy to use without a solid foundation. That’s why he is committed to providing AscentialTest’s universal agent with the most powerful object recognition engine in the industry.

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In addition to the capabilities for testing and validation of the target application GUI, AscentialTest provides facilities for back-end testing:

  • ODBC – execute SQL to capture test data or validate transactions against back-end database
  • REST/SOAP – call web services to trigger system events or verify transactions
  • File interfaces – for CSV, INI, JSON, PDF, Text, XML
  • System and Windows commands – to interact with the file system, make system calls and access the registry and environment variables
  • DLL – call methods published in system and application DLLs

ODBC

AscentialTest provides a Database class that allows the user to make SQL calls through drag and drop. The images below outline the available commands and provide examples of the primary actions:

Rest and Soap

The Rest class provides a way to make Rest and Soap calls to a web server. The images below outline the available commands and provide examples of the primary actions:

File interfaces

AscentialTest provides file interfaces for CSV, INI, JSON, PDF, Text, XML files. All actions are drag & drop:

System and Windows commands

AscentialTest provides the ability to interact with the file system, make system calls and access the registry and environment variables. The images below outline the available commands and provide examples of the selected actions:

DLL

AscentialTest provides the ability to call methods published in system and application DLLs

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