While it is good practice to design automated tests to be independent, it is not always expeditious. There are situations where the data state of a test environment is difficult to manage or where the ‘state-full’ nature of a transaction requires components to be built one upon another. In these cases, a system of managing test dependencies is required.

Learn how a set of automated tests built to test a PowerBuilder classic application can be re-used without change to validate the deployment to a PowerServer 2021 web application.

Along with a variety of built-in summary and detail reports, AscentialTest provides tools for generating custom reports to meet project information requirements and to produce outputs that comply with third-party standards.

While most testing tasks can be accomplished in AscentialTest without scripting, the Zee language is a full-featured, object-oriented language that provides the ability to build test automation capabilities beyond drag and drop.

While AscentialTest is primarily used for GUI testing, the Zee Language has the capability to create, update and parse JSON and XML and to call DLL, ODBC, SOAP and REST interfaces.

How to design a test data strategy that promotes efficiency and reusability for manual and automated tests.