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SmartID – The next generation of component recognition

We are always working on improving component recognition in QF-Test. With QF-Test 6.0 we introduced a completely new paradigm: SmartID

16. December 2022, Max Melzer

My internship at QFS: Sorting and comparing XML files (and other things)

How I used SAX, multi-threading, and token-based parsing to develop a (much!) faster XML comparison library.

24. October 2022, Sarah Wiegel

From mgm's coffee kitchen to test automation with QF-Test

Lilia Gargouri is head of the mgm Quality Team together with Martin Varendorff. In this interview, she describes for us how she found her way to QF-Test, what's important to her in test automation, and about her hopes for the closer cooperation between our companies in the future.

22. September 2022, Thomas Max

Why Can't Developers and Testers Just Get Along?

The relationship between software testers and software developers can fraught with tension. But if everyone is free to bring their skills and their focus to the table, together, we can build great software.

31. May 2022, Max Melzer

The Blockchain Icon Mode - QF-Test out of blocks

Today on first april we finally succeeded in a promising experiment for the automatic redesign of QF-Test - how useful the blockchain technology can be.

01. April 2022, Yann Spöri

"Is FX Even Still Alive?" – JavaFX Adopters Meeting 2021

Is FX even still alive? From QFS' point of view, we can answer this question with a clear "yes": JavaFX is alive and well and has been in use via QF-Test/FX in multiple large projects since 2014.

22. December 2021, Gregor Schmid

No Log4j Vulnerability in QF-Test

In the last days, a vulnerability in the popular open source library log4j has been reported, nick-named Log4shell. QF-Test is not (and has not) been vulnerable to this attack, for a number of reasons.

13. December 2021, Pascal Bihler

Test automation of KeePass with QF-Test - Seminar paper

[Translate to English:] Why do my tests break

"Why do my automated GUI tests break?" that was the seminar question of a student. With this, he asked the central question for test automation. Because the success of this, as well as the daily work of QA, stands and falls with the recognition of the objects - or their failure/breakage of the tests.

29. April 2021, Martina Schmid

Software Testing Thesis

We want to help students in writing their software testing thesis, we decided to start a reference list for relevant testing topics.

06. August 2019, Author unavailable

Why should you test your software?

Software bugs are annoying - for users and software manufacturers alike. The latter, however, should use bugs to continually improve the software, preferably from the beginning of development. Nevertheless, there will probably never really be flawless, right? Rather a philosophical question.

16. January 2019, Yann Spöri

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