In addition to the built-in reports that are standard in AscentialTest, the product also provides the ability to design and generate custom reports. The first step is to building a custom report is to determine whether the data required for the custom report is already available in the standard output files. By default, AscentialTest generates […]
Continuous Integration and Delivery requires on-demand testing. As the frequency of change has increased with the way in which we develop software today, the requirement for automated tests is even more critical. Yet if automated tests are to be useful, they must be easy to develop and maintain. AscentialTest users build tests from reusable components […]
Introduction While there are a lot of ‘right’ ways to use AscentialTest to build tests, we are often asked to provide ‘Best Practices’. This paper provides a summary of the approach and techniques that we use in Zeenyx Support. We hope that it is helpful to your teams as they design manual and automated tests. […]
In addition to the capabilities for testing and validation of the target application GUI, AscentialTest provides facilities for back-end testing: ODBC – execute SQL to capture test data or validate transactions against back-end database REST/SOAP – call web services to trigger system events or verify transactions File interfaces – for CSV, INI, JSON, PDF, Text, […]
Although it has always been possible to integrate AscentialTest with Azure manually, the new AscentialTest Azure pipeline task extension makes that integration much easier to accomplish. The extension configures and runs the AscentialTest command lines to execute tests and generate reports. It also outputs a set of results files to summarize ‘passed’, ‘failed’, ‘blocked’ and […]
The ability to verify the contents of a PDF document may be an important part of a test transaction. In the past, users were required to copy the contents of a PDF onto the clipboard and then create a parsing script to verify its contents. With the release of AscentialTest v8.2, PDF documents can be […]