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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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See How We Achieved an 83% Five Star Rating on Gartner

See how AscentialTest compares to the competition, using 18 key features and functions and across 14 different development platforms

  • Supported Platforms (14)
  • Integrated Test Planning
  • Object Recognition
  • Object Repository
  • Test Frameworks
  • Foreign Language UX
  • Drag Generations of Actions
  • Reusable Steps
  • Scripting
  • Manual Testing
  • Parallel Execution
  • Integrated Defect Tracking
  • Test Localization
  • Test Portability
  • Test Management
  • Test Execution Management
  • Integrated Version Control
  • Integrated Test Management

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Features

Object Recognition

AscentialTest recognizes application elements regardless of complexity without coding hacks or reliance on fragile OCR

Drag & Drop

Creating tests with our drag & drop editors is faster and more efficient than recording or scripting

Reusable Elements

Reuse promote faster building and maintenance of tests

No More Test Frameworks

Stop creating test frameworks and focus on your testing

Test Management Tools

Testing projects can get messy without good management tools

Complex Objects

Let AscentialTest do the heavy-lifting when it comes to tables, grids and trees

Integrations

Testing productivity involves meaningful integration with collaboration tools

Powerbuilder Expertise

We are the recognized go-to testing platform for PowerBuilder, we cover PB v6.x all the way to the current version.

Platforms

PowerBuilder

Web Apps

.Net

Omnis

Terminal

PDF

API Testing

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Gartner Summary Stats

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Company Size: Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
5
The best automated tool for PowerBuilder Applications

The full support of PowerBuilder applications and support other technologies as well like web applications. Easy to integrate. The object oriented method reduced the maintenance cost of your automated tests. Multiple options to organize your plan and your automated tests. The element recognition is really good and you have alwas a solution to detect elements […]

Factors Considered:

Company Size: Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
5
An excellent tool for speeding up the development of PowerBuilder tests

AscentialTest’s powerful path statement which has the ability to identify the custom tables and dynamic controls which is always the challenge in testing tools. It resolved most of our application challenges.

Factors Considered:

Company Size: Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
5
Great partner and software

The product works and does its job well. Zeenyx did an awesome job of supporting us with training, product onboarding, and ongoing support. We have expanded our licensing to do more tests and volume. Everything from Zeenyx and everyone at the company have been a pleasure to work with.

Factors Considered:

Company Size: Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
5
A great product with excellent support.

The tool is fun and easy to use. Very customizable. Support is also top notch.

Factors Considered:

Company Size: Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
5
Best automated testing tool for increasing the usability and maintenability of your applications!

The object oriented method helps you reduce the maintenance cost of your Test Sets. You can do automate and manual test on the same tool, and you can obviouslly run test on non visible objects. AscentialTest is the only tool to fully support PB applications, it also supports other technologies. Last but not least, the […]

Factors Considered:

Company Size: Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
5
Superb PowerBuilder Testing Tool

It is very robust and intelligent. Once you understand the basics, it is quite intuitive making quick, repeatable tests. The customer service is prompt and extremely helpful. Works very well recognizing and implementing PowerBuilder objects.

Factors Considered:

Company Size: Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
5
My AscentialTest Journey

It’s been really easy to automate the same application TestComplete struggled with. I was able to created automated regression for two of our key applications in just a few months. I haven’t even taken their training.

Factors Considered:

Energy & Utilities Industry
Company Size: $1B+
5.0
Extremely Capable Automation Test Tool For PowerBuilder Applications

“Excellent Support turnaround times and solutions for resolving our questions. Works incredibly well with our .Net WPF components that reside within Powerbuilder Data Windows ” What we liked most: Automated Tests are highly repeatable without Object Recognition or timing errors. Easy to install/configure Easy to control Test Runs via command line/Powershell scripts Capable of testing .Net […]

Factors Considered:

Reduce time to market Drive innovation Enhance decision making Create internal/operational efficiencies Improve business process outcomes Improve business process agility
Other Solutions Considered: SmartBear; Microsoft; Micro Focus

Reasons for Purchase:

Reasons for Purchase: We needed to test key parts of Legacy PowerBuilder application that requires weeks of manual testing more often.
IT Services Industry
Company Size: <$50MM
5.0
Best Automated Testing Tool For Maintainability And Reusability.

“Overall, AscentialTest has been a fantastic automated tool, performing way better than any manual testing. The maintainability of test suites are super easy. Regressions take significantly fewer man-hours and UAT is much faster. We can conduct intensive performance testing, specifically volume and stress testing that was not possible before. Defect tracking has become much more […]

Factors Considered:

Product functionality and performance; Strong customer focus; Product roadmap and future vision; Breadth of services
Other Solutions Considered: Katalon; Eggplant; ACCELQ

Reasons for Purchase:

Reasons for Purchase: Improve customer relations/service; Create internal/operational efficiencies; Drive revenue growth; Reduce time to market; Improve business process outcomes; Cost management
IT Services Industry
Company Size: <$50MM
5.0
Very suitable program for automated testing of PowerBuilder applications

“Ascential Test is the most suitable program to test Powerbuilder applications. The basic tests are easy to compile in the editor, and with the help of scripts almost anything you want can be automated. The support from Zeenyx is excellent.” What we liked most: The application has a logical structure and is fairly intuitive to […]

Factors Considered:

Strong customer focus; Product functionality and performance
Other Solutions Considered: LEAPWORK; Ranorex; SmartBear

Reasons for Purchase:

Reasons for Purchase: Our applications are quite complex and contain a lot of configurable options so that the various customers can work well in their own country. Going through the basic flow for the regression test is an intensive job and it saves a lot of time if this can be done automatically.

Automated testing, manual testing and test management tools that are easy to learn, easy to use, and easy to maintain.

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What We Are Up To Next

TFS/Azure Integration

Check our new Azure extension for executing AscentialTest command lines in the Azure Marketplace.

We look forward to offering additional integration with Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server and Azure through defect tracking and version control soon.

Omnis Studio

Automated testing support for OMNIS Studio is coming soon. All OMNIS elements will be supported including complex grids, list boxes, tables and tree views.

Custom Objects

Add automated testing support easily for your custom application elements by responding to simple test API messages with json strings. This feature will open up the possibility of testing any GUI element and  will be offered free of charge.

Test Debugger

Set breakpoints in your automated tests, view global and local variables and execute statements to make it easier to debug tests running on any of our supported platforms.

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