vTest

vTest is a professional software application designed to help Quality Assurance engineers and analysts test web programs during and after their development (throughout their life cycle). It comes with an advanced suite of tools that are used for automating your functional testing process and generating test results for analysis and review.

The program provides quick access to an Explorer-like layout where all your scripts are stored. The scripts can be displayed in a graphical or text view mode.

You can check out the message pane that logs your actions and have a look at the Active Screen Pane that shows a preview of the application and the steps performed during the recording. The tool highlights the objects at a specific step and lets you add checkpoints to it (even if your script does not include a step to that corresponding object).

The utility lets you create and save your projects at any stage so you can easily import them for future editing tasks, generate a batch script from the current project which can be executed independently, as well as print the information.

When it comes to editing features, you may undo or redo your modifications, cut, copy and paste clipboard text, search and replace text, delete, rename or move scripts, and insert different types of checkpoints (page, text, web object, table and database).

You are allowed to start the recording process of a user’s interaction on the specified webpage, run the compiled scripts, stop the recording process, check out a list with all recorded objects, and configure script level replay settings.

What’s more, the program lets you pause a script while running it, move on the next step in the script, add or remove a breakpoint at the selected step, and remove all breakpoints from the script. The tool comes with a set of configuration parameters that help you define global recording and replaying options, script type, text script features, as well as active screen options.

vTest makes use of two types of objects (web and Windows-related components) in order to represent your application. The tool works with the following HTML and Windows controls and dialogs: URL, table, list, link, composite area consisting of multiple regions that can be clicked on to take you to specified locations, text field, radio button, checkbox, ActiveX control (including Flash objects), Java applets, push buttons that send commands, images, and HTML tags.

At the end of a test, vTest generates a detailed report in HTML with information about the different iterations performed during a test, visited pages, comparison of expected and actual results of all checkpoints, objects and events a user has interacted with, as well as other statistical data (time of the run test).

VTest proves to be an efficient automated functional and regression testing software application, and is suitable especially for advanced users.