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QF-Test handles multi-user license management for local networks by itself, provided that IP multicast is available. For floating licenses across multiple sites and in restricted networks, a license server is available.

product description and technical details in the license server manual

Get started with QF-Test

Request it using the trial request form. With this license you can evaluate QF-Test for your application without restrictions.

Get QF-Test on our Download page. You can start your application with QF-Test and get a first impression of the tool and to check out the tutorials. To save your work you’ll need a license.

Just compare the cost of QF-Test licenses with the cost of developers’ or testers’ wages and the cost of bugs detected after release – not to mention the damage to your company’s reputation (Blog article).

If your boss is still on the fence, you can send them a link to our page Benefits for decision-makers.

Comprehensive automated tests, executed regularly during software development, will help to find bugs at an early stage. The reproducible security achieved this way ensures higher quality and shorter time to market at lower maintenance expense.

GUI based testing exercises an application as a whole, because a working steering wheel and motor in isolation don’t guarantee roadworthiness. For more, see our page Benefits for developers.

Instead of recording a component and referencing it via its « QF-Test ID », with a SmartID you can reference the GUI-Element directy by its properties. For example, the SmartID  »#Button:label=OK » references a button with the label « OK ».

Thanks to this technology it becomes possible to reference components much more precisely and intuitively, regardless of the SUT.

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

Max Melzer

16/12/2022

However, experienced developers can also interact with QF-Test and your SUT at the script level at any time to develop even more powerful automations.

You can choose between purchasing a persistent license or a subscription license. All QF-Test licenses are « floating » within a network.

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For examples, see our References page.

• Continuous Integration and build tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Bamboo, Travis CI, Circle CI, TeamCity, Ant, Maven, CruiseControl
• Robot Framework: QF-Test procedures can easily be used as keywords
• Virtual desktops such as Citrix, VMware, VirtualBox
• Version control such as Git, SVN/Subversion, CVS, Mercurial
• Test management tools such as ALM/QualityCenter by MicroFocus/HP, TestBench by Imbus, QMetry, TestLink, IBM Rational Quality Manager
• JIRA and JIRA Plugins like TestRail, Zephyr, X-Ray, TM4J
• Keyword-driven/behavior-driven testing via our own approaches, Test management tools, Excel, Cucumber
• Data-driven Testing with Excel, CSV and all kinds of databases
• Error tracking with tools like Jira, MantisBT, and Bugzilla
• Load and performance tests via daemon mode or tools like NeoLoad

Applications under test may use any version of Java 8 or newer.

• Windows (Windows 11, Windows 10, Server 2022, Server 2019 and Server 2016): Test Java Swing, SWT, JavaFX, Web, Android, iOS and native Windows applications with QF-Test.
• Linux(Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, etc.): Test Java Swing, SWT, JavaFX, Android and Web applications with QF-Test.
• macOS: Test Java Swing, JavaFX, Android, iOS and Web applications with QF-Test.

Read more about support for specific JDK/SWT/Browser versions in the « Installation » chapter of the manual.

Easy to use

• Quickly create tests with capture and replay
• Easily find your way through QF-Test’s intuitive GUI
• No programming skills required: Compose complex, high-coverage tests with our node tree interface.

Highly flexible

• QF-Test automatically adapts to changes in the UI of the application under test
• Intelligent recording and filtering
• Full access to recorded sequences
• Support for trees, tables and other widgets – even with dynamic content

Powerful

• Powerful algorithms for component recognition
• Optional advanced programming elements like loop constructs, ‘try/catch’, dependencies, and logical ‘if/else’ control structures, as well as variables and procedures for building modularized tests
• Text processing with regular expressions
• Full access to the Java API of the application under test
• Integrated scripting with Jython, Groovy and JavaScript
• XML/HTML based test reporting, including screenshots

Well-documented

• Ships with an extensive manual (over 1,000 pages) including a user guide with many examples and a technical reference section
• The Tutorial assists you with getting started quickly, with many easy to understand test scenarios
• Includes dozens of example test suites
• Access our growing collection of video tutorials and workshops
• We share many tips and tricks on our Blog
• All our documentation and support resources are available in english and german

Detaillierte Informationen zu den QF-Test Versionen finden Sie in den Releases.

Java applications

• All kind of Java applications can be tested.
• Everything is covered from the traditional Swing (including Webstart, ULC, JIDE components, CaptainCasa), and its successor JavaFX and also SWT, the Standard Widget Toolkit from Eclipse, including Plugins and RCP (Rich Client Platform) applications.

Hybrid applications
Use QF-Test to test applications combining Java and Web using technologies like JxBrowser, SWT-Browser, JavaFX WebView components, JPro, and Webswing.

Web applications

• QF-Test provides cross-browser testing of Web GUIs and Electron applications.
• QF-Test completely supports reactive frameworks like Angular, React and Vue.js. Support for many dedicated UI component libraries comes integrated in QF-Test, like SmartGWT, ExtGWT, ExtJS, ICEfaces, jQuery UI, jQueryEasyUI, Kendo UI, PrimeFaces, Qooxdoo, RAP, RichFaces, Vaadin and ZK. Other toolkits like SAP UI5, Siebel Open UI, and Salesforce can be integrated with little effort. Our support team is ready and able to assist you.
• QF-Test supports all common browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and Microsoft Edge) as well as the headless versions of Chrome, Firefox and Edge (Chromium based)

Progressive Web Applications

Mobile websites and web applications are testable via the dedicated mobile emulation mode.

Mobile applications

Android and iOS applications with support of both real devices and the Android Studio emulator

Native Windows applications

QF-Test supports native Windows desktop applications built with Win32, .Net (often written in C#), Windows Forms, WPF, Windows Apps, and Qt (often written in C++)

PDF documents

PDF documents can also be tested by QF-Test. See our introduction video to testing PDF documents:

PDF Testing with QF-Test

Often PDF documents are the final result of a business process that you can check easily with QF-Test, too.

We – Quality First Software (QFS) – have been the independent developer and distributor behind QF-Test since 2001. Detailed information about QF-Test is available on our product page.

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Les licences QF-Test sont valables pour toutes les versions avec la même version majeure.medium et pour toutes les versions plus anciennes de QF-Test.

• Les mises à jour mineures sont gratuites
• Les mises à jour moyennes et majeures sont payantes ou incluses dans le contrat de maintenance.

Si vous possédez une version vieille et voulez la mettre à niveau, contactez-nous directement.

Mise à jour majeure

Une mise à jour majeurefait référence au « premier » chiffre, par exemple de 6.4.3 à 7.0.0.

Mise à jour moyenne

Une mise à jour moyennefait référence au chiffre au « milieu », par exemple de 7.0.0 à 7.1.0.

Mise à jour mineure

Les mises à jour mineures (=Updates)par exemple de 7.0.1 à 7.0.2 sont généralement gratuites puisqu’elles contiennent des corrections de bogue qui font partie de la garantie du produit.

Votre licence connaît votre période de maintenance et vous permet d’utiliser la dernière version du logiciel téléchargée sur notre site-web.

Vous pouvez effectuer à distance plusieurs tests automatisés dans de différents environnements et sur de différentes plateformes.

QF-Test s’occupe de la gestion des licences multi-utilisateurs pour les réseaux locaux, à condition que le multicast IP fonctionne.
product description et détails techniques dans le license server manual

Pour déterminer les technologies pour votre application, ouvrez vos test-suite(s) et démarrez tous vos clients par QF-Test. Après avoir exécuté vos tests, ouvrez le menu ‘Clients’. Là vous voyez les technologies GUI utilisées entre paranthèses []. Dans l’exemple il y a deux clients utilisants [Swing] et [Web]; toutes les combinaisons de [Swing], [Swt], [FX], [Web], [Win] et [Android / iOS] sont possibles.
Sinon contactez notre équipe de vente: +49 8171 38648-0 ou sales@qftest.com.

Licence par abonnement : Vous vous abonnez pour la période requise. Ce prix comprend la maintenance et le support du logiciel.

Avec une licence runtime (d’exécution), vous pouvez exécuter des tests (également à distance et via la commande lince en mode « batch ») et vous pouvez par exemple effectuer un « débogage rapide », même des modifications à court terme qui ne peuvent tout simplement pas être enregistrées, puisque la licence runtime  est destinée à l’exécution de tests.