New QASymphony Labs’ Tech Blog

About six months ago at our Quality Jam ’16 conference in Atlanta, QASymphony announced that we formed a new division in our company called QAS Labs. The Labs team is dedicated to investigating new promising technologies for software testing, with the hopes that some of these technologies will make their way into our products and benefit our customers. Our Labs team works closely with our customers in developing these new technologies with a goal to determine if and how they can benefit testers.

Already we have seen success from our Labs efforts. The first project to graduate from the Labs is our new Automated Script Generator which we released last month. This new capability allows users to generate Selenium or Protractor automated test scripts from Sessions recorded with our eXplorer product. Keeping up with automated testing is a challenge for most of us, with eXplorer and the Automated Script Generator users can move from manual to automated tests more quickly, which also means that testers can better keep up with application changes.

In the future we will use this new Tech Blog to talk about some of the projects and technologies we are working on in the Labs.

Some of the areas we are currently working in the Labs include:

• More work on automated script generation, including looking at ways to automatically generate test scripts for APIs, and how to automatically record and add dynamic data parameters to the generated automated tests
• Expanding our early work on TDD/BDD in our Scenario product, and working with promising new TDD/BDD technology from Thoughtworks (the creators of Selenium) called Gauge
• Identifying and developing new solutions for Continuous Testing, with a goal to more tightly integrate all aspects of testing, including manual and exploratory testing, into a Continuous Deployment pipeline
• Finding ways to leverage containerization technologies such as Docker to solve problems related to the creation and management of test data and test environments

Look for more details about these and other projects in this blog in the future.

VIEW tHE QASymphony LABS BLOG HERE

Paraphrasing the immortal words of James T. Kirk, our mission at the Labs is to boldly go where no testers have gone before. We look forward to taking the journey together.