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Automation Anywhere, a global leader in automation software today announced the newest version of Testing Anywhere, now available for Silverlight and Java applications. 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.

Testing Anywhere now tests any application on any Windows platform; tests web applications on Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome; and tests custom applications written in more than 20 languages including Python, Perl, C++ and C#.

Testing Anywhere provides a new, more efficient way to automate software testing and collaborate among QA professionals, developers and other members of the application development life cycle. Testing Anywhere’s unique Object Avatar functionality is widely seen as a breakthrough technology for creating test cases, especially useful for agile development. Object Avatar creates test cases up to 300% faster by not needing to connect to an application while creating tests. Testing Anywhere also increases testing speed and improves collaboration through its Test-to-EXE functionality that can convert a test to an EXE, allowing the user to run and share the test case on any machine, even running on computers where Testing Anywhere is not installed. One of the most powerful features of Testing Anywhere is the ability to automate test cases that are not instrumented – QA testers can test product-ready test cases, omitting the need for code stripping at a later time.

“When we launched Testing Anywhere few years ago, we saw immediate interest from major System Integrators, developers and QA professionals who saw how much time our unique Object Avatar and test-to-exe functionality could save them,” said Mihir Shukla, founder and CEO of Automation Anywhere. “Automation Anywhere now serves large customers in both the business process automation market as well as in automated software testing. Today, we are glad today to be able to extend Testing Anywhere to people working with Java and Silverlight.”

Introducing Testing Anywhere for Java and Testing Anywhere for Silverlight:

• Automated Java Testing: With this launch, Testing Anywhere works with Java applications, offering a state-of-the-art, comprehensive, object-level testing automation solution to ensure top quality in Java development environments. Testing Anywhere supports testing automation of standard Java objects, as well as custom controls.

• Automated Silverlight Testing: Testing Anywhere can help you deliver your Silverlight applications and plug-ins faster by automating your test cases. Testing Anywhere supports all of the Silverlight capabilities and tools, including IIS Smooth Streaming, PivotViewer, SketchFlow, Deep Zoom, Pixel Shader effects, 3D graphics, and Skinning and Styling.

• Recording Java and Silverlight Test Cases: Testing Anywhere’s SMART Test Recorder understands all Java web or Silverlight objects. Simply record test cases with this advanced recorder and it will automatically capture all properties related to the Java objects. No programming knowledge is needed. Advanced users can customize the type of test that is run (object, image, or coordinate) to be the most appropriate.

• Test Editor with 585 commands and Object Avatar: Easily create Java or Silverlight test cases visually without programming, or use Testing Anywhere’s 585 edit commands to enhance your tests. Edit your test cases using Normal View for simple drag-and-drop editing, or use Expert View for code-based editing. Testing Anywhere’s Object Avatar introduces a technology for creating test cases up to 300% faster by not connecting to the test application.

• Read more about automated testing of Java applications automationanywhere.com/.

Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in python. It is based on the cross platform Qt gui toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control.

Features of tool include:

* Unlimited number of editors
* Configurable window layout
* Configurable syntax hilighting
* Sourcecode autocompletion
* Sourcecode calltips
* Sourcecode folding
* Brace matching
* Error highlighting
* Advanced search functionality including project wide search and replace
* Integrated class browser
* Makro recordings
* Integrated version control interface for Cvs and
Subversion repositories (as plugins)
* Integrated sourcecode documentation system
* Integrated python debugger including support to debug multithreaded applications
* Integrated, full featured Ruby debugger
* Integrated profiling and code coverage support
* Integrated task (todo items) management
* Advanced project management facilities
* Interactive Python shell including syntax hilighting and autocompletion
* Interactive Ruby shell including syntax hilighting and autocompletion

To access the tool click here.

The Maja Machine Learning Framework (MMLF) is a general framework for problems in the domain of Reinforcement Learning (RL) written in python. It provides a set of RL related algorithms and a set of benchmark domains. Furthermore it is easily extensible and allows to automate benchmarking of different agents.

Among the RL algorithms are TD(lambda), CMA-ES, EANT, Fitted R-Max, and Monte-Carlo learning. MMLF contains different variants of the maze-world and pole-balancing problem class as well as the mountain-car testbed.

An example of a scenario that MMLF would be used for is a robot that tries to find its way through a maze. In RL, the world is typically decomposed into the “agent(s)” and the “environment”. In the example, the robot would be the agent and the maze would be the environment.

The MMLF adopts this view since it provides a natural modularization, which allows to write general agents capable of learning and to test them in a magnitude of environments. All learning (optimization of behavior) is usually done within an agent while simulation of physics and other kinds of dynamics are performed within an environment.

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Rietveld starts off with major geek cred because its primary author is Python’s Guido van Rossum. The tool is written in Python (of course!) and hosted on Google’s own experimental cloud-computing framework AppEngine. Anyone with a Google account can participate; after logging in you can identify Subversion repositories and branches containing code that needs to be reviewed, upload changed source code files, and invite reviewers. Reviewers can see an online diff and leave their own comments, and the system uses email notifications to keep the discussion moving along.

Rietveld is right now a bare-bones implementation, though it’s already being used by a number of Python projects. If you main interest is in finding the best tool to use for code reviews, though, there are at least three other web-based open source code review tools that you ought to evaluate before committing to Rietveld.

rietveld

View Rietveld  dedicated page for this tool here.

Vampire is a remote package testing tool written in Python.  It takes a pool of tarballs (usually Autotools-generated tarballs), uploads them to several machines, compiles if necessary, runs a check sequence (usually make distcheck), and returns the results as an XML file.  It is designed to be flexible enough to run checks on different systems and environments using user-specified connection and uploading methods.

View TesterTools dedicated page for this tool.