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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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AscentialTest is Built for Agile, DevOps and Continuous Integration

March 26, 2024

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 so that changes can be isolated to the smallest unit. When the target application changes, only impacted object definitions or steps require change. All of the tests that use those components are automatically updated. This approach not only enables rapid test development, but it also reduces the cost, time and level of effort to keep tests up to date so that they are ready to run when needed.

To support CI and DevOps, AscentialTest provides a growing number of integration features:

Integration with Jira for Defect Tracking

Integration with Azure Dev Ops and Jenkins for Continuous Integration

Integration with Subversion for Version Control

Integration with GIT and TFS for Version Control coming soon

Integration with Azure DevOps for Defect Tracking coming soon

AscentialTest is Built for Agile, DevOps and Continuous Integration

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 so that changes can be isolated to the smallest unit. When the target application changes, only impacted object definitions or steps require change. All of the tests that use those components are automatically updated. This approach not only enables rapid test development, but it also reduces the cost, time and level of effort to keep tests up to date so that they are ready to run when needed.

To support CI and DevOps, AscentialTest provides a growing number of integration features:

Integration with Jira for Defect Tracking

Integration with Azure Dev Ops and Jenkins for Continuous Integration

Integration with Subversion for Version Control

Integration with GIT and TFS for Version Control coming soon

Integration with Azure DevOps for Defect Tracking coming soon

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