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.
Author: Brian
Defining PowerBuilder Toolbar Objects
Most PowerBuilder applications contain at least one toolbar. AscentialTest recognizes the individual tools in the toolbar, using the ‘RenderImage’ feature. Follow these steps to define PowerBuilder Toolbar objects: Find the tool bar element in the Elements tree and drag it to the App Objects tree under the App Object definition for the application’s main window: […]
AscentialTest Table Automation Interface
AscentialTest provides a table interface that allows the user to easily get, verify, select and set table elements in the target application. This document provides instructions on how to use that interface to generate the following types of actions: Get or verify the contents of a table Get or verify the contents of a row […]
AscentialTest Selector
The AscentialTest selector is a powerful feature that provides a way to select one or more rows in a table. Once the row has been selected, it’s easy to get, set or verify values for any column/cell in the row. Although the selector has many other applications in AscentialTest, this paper concentrates on how to […]
A Case For Object Definitions
It is understandable that someone new to test automation would wonder whether the benefits of defining application objects are worth the effort. After all, isn’t it more expedient to use a recorder that references objects directly? It is a question that occasionally surfaces during a comparison of automated testing tools. Yet the real merits of […]
AscentialTest Jenkins Plug-in
Although it has always been possible to integrate AscentialTest with Jenkins manually, the new AscentialTest Jenkins Plugin makes that integration much easier to accomplish. The Plugin configures and runs the AscentialTest command lines to execute tests and generate reports. It also makes use of an existing Jenkins plugin to create a bar chart of pass/fail/blocked/not-run […]
Zeenyx® AscentialTest Getting Started Guide
Thank you for choosing to evaluate AscentialTest. The purpose of this guide is to provide a framework to help you learn the basic features of AscentialTest. It is intended to serve as a supplement to the self-guided video tutorial. Please contact Zeenyx Support at [email protected] if you have any questions during your evaluation. Preliminaries Make […]
