AscentialTest Enterprise Features
The Ascential Enterprise Edition extends the feature set of the Standard Edition to create a full featured testing solution to support small and large teams. This document provides a brief description of each of the following features: Version Control integration Centralized database storage and access for test results Test Results Portal Defect Tracking Integration Version […]
AscentialTest Custom Reports
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 […]
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 […]
AscentialTest Best Practices
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. […]
AscentialTest Back-end Testing Capabilities
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, […]
AscentialTest Azure Pipeline Task Extension
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 […]