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.
The participant will learn:
* How indirection and dynamic instantiation are used to build generic test steps
* How to create universal verification steps and functions
* About built-in functions that provide information about the current state of the target application
* How metadata can be used to set object-related test data
* How to create a test that walks the main menu of an application, opening and closing each dialog
AscentialTest Seminar 4: Handling Flaky Tests
While most automated tests run consistently, there are others that you might term as ‘flaky’ or ‘tricky’. Those are the ones that sometimes pass, sometimes fail and are hard to get working reliably. We’ve all encountered them, regardless of the testing tool is in use. The difficulty often involves inconsistent timing of asynchronous events. In this webinar, we’ll examine examples provided by the AscentialTest user community along with their solutions. We’ll also review AscentialTest debugging features and talk about a few upcoming features that enhance debugging capabilities.
