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Automation Anywhere (www.AutomationAnywhere.com), a global leader in automation software,  announced the newest version of Testing Anywhere. Testing Anywhere first launched in December, 2009 and is being adopted by large system integrators and other software development teams looking for significantly better efficiencies and quality around automated software testing.

“We’ve been using Testing Anywhere’s new Object Avatar and believe there is nothing else like it in the market today. It is changing the way we do our application testing,” Stephen Clancy, QATools Development of Healthways. “We found that using Object Avatar for test automation significantly reduces the amount of time we spend in updating and creating scripts. This is a great time saver. The global repository should help keep us all on the same page.”

“One of the testing challenges our customers have repeatedly talked about is the time and energy it takes to test and re-test objects with live applications — a process that can take days and weeks with larger, complicated live applications,” said Mihir Shukla, co-founder and CEO of Automation Anywhere. “We took a step back and came up with an innovative approach that we think will change the way people conduct their application testing. Instead of testing the live application, we create a repository of application Object Avatars that allow for faster, more efficient automated testing.”

Key features

Testing Anywhere key features.

1.     Test anything with 5 innovative ways to create tests
2.     Reduce total cost of ownership by 45% to 60%. The only automated testing software you need. No programming required – allows you to test any Windows applications, Web based applications, websites or legacy applications. It also allows you to perform any type of testing from regression based testing to compatibility testing, etc.

3.     Reduce total time to automate tests by 50% to 70%. Quick and easy setup of tests as well as end-to-end workflows. Eliminate the need to write multiple scripts to run a test on multiple machines. Create a single test script and use Testing Anywhere’s Exe capability to run the test on multiple machines without installing the testing software on each.
4.     Increased ROI & no hidden costs
5.     Scalable
Creates tests without any scripting or programming required, using a powerful front-end, GUI based automation.
Advanced testing allows the use of over 300 various editable commands that allow users to create and manage complex scripts easily.
6.     Reliable
Object based recording allows for unsurpassed reliablility
SMART Automation Technology® intelligently adjusts scripts and recorded tests eliminating the need to write a new script for each environment.
Support for custom objects or any object with revolutionary technology. Test any process in any application.

Klaros-Testmanagement is an Ajax based web application, supporting the test process in an optimal way.  Klaros-Testmanagement supports the collection of test data and the creation and assignment of test plans as well as interfacing with issue management systems (JIRA, Trac, Redmine, Bugzilla) and extensive reporting capabilities. The integration with continuous integration servers like Hudson allow to automate tedious manual procedures during the development cycle.

Open interfaces allow the import of existing data from outside sources such as spreadsheets or other applications. An accompanying web client application allows the automated logging and result acquisition of manually executed test cases.

The comprehensive and up-to-date database allows the precise deduction of facts about the current status of the software quality at any time.

What is dogtail?

Dogtail is a GUI test tool and automation framework written in Python. It uses Accessibility (a11y) technologies to communicate with desktop applications. dogtail scripts are written in Python and executed like any other Python program.

Dogtail is free software released under the GPL. Some example code is released to the Public Domain.  Movies of dogtail in action can be found in the media section.

Features

Dogtail has a number of features that aid in the automation and testing of desktop applications. These include:

* Scripts written in Python – Since dogtail uses Python as its scripting language, scriptwriters gain enormous power and flexibility in what they can do with dogtail. If you can do it in Python, you can do it with dogtail.

* Procedural API – A procedural scripting API allows for fast and easy blackbox tests to be written. Ace programmer credentials are not necessary to write useful automated scripts.

* Easily Extensible – dogtail is object oriented “under the covers” so more advanced users can write custom classes and helper libraries simply.

* Results and debug reporting

- Test case comparisons are written to a tab-delimited results file for easy processing. Debug information is written to its own log for detailed analysis of what happened during script execution.

View TesterTools dedicate page for this tool.