TestingWhiz: Pioneering the Next Generation of Affordable Codeless Test Automation
Date: Wednesday , August 28, 2013
An agile approach is the need of the day whether in software development or software testing. Customersare demanding faster turnarounds with higher levels of reliability in software development. This puts pressure on the QA and software testing fraternity to respond faster to the increased testing requirements in an agile environment.
Shorter development cycles leave little time for comprehensive testing hampering the time to market and product quality. It becomes almost impossible for a tester to finish a round of regression tests whilst complying with agile timings. Hence, enterprises are on the constant lookout for testing technologies that provide intelligence and robust automation. The need of the hour is a QA test automation tool that is designed for rapid application testing. Cygnet Infotech's testing suite, TestingWhiz, is the answer to the enterprises’ need for an affordable, yet effective testing solution. TestingWhiz is a result of years of software QA industry experience and hard work by the Cygnet team, led by Managing Director, Niraj Hutheesing and Executive Director, Tejinder Oberoi.
Making Test Automation Five Times Faster Delving deep into test automation today reveals that the process is similar to software development rather than software testing. Test automation tools are typically plain record and playback tools which generate a back end code requiring programming skills to manipulate, fine tune and maintain. Maintenance of scripts proves cumbersome owing to longer test cycles with smaller test coverage. Adding fuel to the fire is the fact that skilled programmers are more interested in coding rather than testing.With a test automation product that is ‘codeless’, TestingWhiz has taken the software testing automation industryto a whole new level.
The value is best explained by Cygnet’s Executive Director Tejinder Oberoi. “TestingWhiz generates back end code during recording like all other tools but abstracts the code into an intuitive grid UI which makes it easy to modify and change the test steps. All changes are again converted to back end code,” explains Oberoi.This unique process boasts of the capability to make test script creation and maintenance five times faster than regular test automation tools. Whilst analyzing a typical cycle of testing a web application, there are five actively used versions of Internet Explorer, eight versions of Firefox, seven versions of Chrome, three versions of Safari and three versions of Opera. You need to test your application on 26 different versions of browsers every time you have a new version to the market. This repetitive process can strain the tester, render the team unproductive, and the worst case scenariorelease a product which is not properly tested.
Understanding this time consuming process, the TestingWhiz solution has been pre-coded with over 190+ built in commands to create and modify test scripts. “A tester is given the power to record once and playback multiple times in different browsers. Support for string, math, compare, javascript, html5, and other elements are also provided in Testing Whiz,” says Oberoi. When compared with a widely used test automationtoolSelenium, we find that Selenium requires a lot of work in developing scripts and a lot of expertise in its core scripting language. On the other hand TestingWhiz needs no coding and no coder. You can even train a new employee to be an automation tester with TestingWhizin less than a week.
The Power to Schedule Automation Tests, Backed by Product Affordability
Another interesting aspect of Cygnet’s TestingWhiz tool is the scheduler option, a feature that is unique to TestingWhiz compared to other automation tools. A normal tester is capable of working for an average of eight hours, in opposition the automated TestingWhiz tool that can theoretically work 24 hours. The scheduler feature has been designed to allow scripts to be run at pre-defined times even during the night and mail test reports to stakeholders.
With India being a price sensitive market and with cost of test tools such as HP QTP too high to afford for the small and mid-sized organizations, Cygnet has brought out a test automation product to provide an affordable, reliable and easy to use web & cloud automation testing solution for the SME as well as large enterprises. Organizations also need not worry about hiring exclusive test automation developers and scriptwriters for automation testing.
A bird’s eye view of the history of testing solutions shows a move from simple record and playback tools, onto the era of separating data and code, to the current generation of codeless testing. TestingWhiz belongs to this latest generation of codeless testing, especially useful for companies which do not have dedicated testing teams. It can also be used for automation testing by business users themselves. The product is also a sigh of relief for companies which want their manual testers to move to automation testing without requiring them to learn programming since testers do not necessarily need to be programmers whentesting using TestingWhiz. Such companies can significantly increase their value offering in terms of test automation. Cygnet Infotech continues to build simple, yet thoughtful and effective solutions such as TestingWhiz to help small, midsized and big organizations move to the next level of hassle free testing forweb and cloud applications. |