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Rapise® - Product InformationRapid and Flexible Test Automation for Web, GUI and API Applications
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Agenda
Test Automation Overview
Rapise Overview
Feature Walkthrough Recording Automated Tests Playback of Tests Data-Driven Testing Integration with SpiraTest / SpiraTeam
Technologies Supported Windows Applications Other GUI Technologies Web Application Testing API and Web Service Testing
Extensibility Options
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Test Automation Overview
Automated test scripts are a valuable way to perform regression testing on applications to ensure that new features or bug fixes don’t break existing functionality.
They typically supplement manual testing and exploratory testing which is more efficient at the testing of new features and capabilities.
For complete test coverage you need to perform the same automated tests across a complete spectrum of platforms, browsers, devices and environments.
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Types of Automated Test
There are several types of automated test: Unit Tests – these are coded against specific modules or
subroutines and verify that these modules correctly in isolation
Functional Tests – these are tests that simulate a user’s actions and test that the various screens and functionalities work as expected when a set of scenarios is executed
Performance Tests – Also known as load and/or stress tests, these test that an application works correctly under the planned load and determine the point at which it stops working
Vulnerability Tests – Also known as security tests, these test that the application’s security cannot be compromised and a hacker cannot access secure data or functionality
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Rapise® Overview
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Product Overview
Rapise® is a powerful software test automation platform that leverages the power of open, extensible architecture to provide the most rapid and flexible functional testing tool on the market today.
Rapise is ideal for functional GUI testing - both client-server and standalone applications, cross-browser web testing, and data-driven testing.
Rapise comes with built-in support for testing APIs and web services, including RESTful web services.
Rapise is the ideal testing solution for today's agile software projects.
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Why Choose Rapise?
The top three reasons that our customers choose Rapise over other solutions are: Learn and Go™ Capability
Rapise's unique Learn and Go™ testing method is much more time efficient than traditional record-and-playback processes. Objects can be edited during the learning process instead of waiting for all objects to be recorded then edited.
Cross-Browser Testing, API & GUI TestingRapise comes out of the box with support for testing Windows, Flash, Flex, Java, WPF, Ajax, APIs and Web Applications. It allows the same test scripts to be executed in multiple browsers unchanged.
Extensible Platform for Test AutomationRapise's open architecture provides unlimited flexibility to extend the system to meet the unique testing needs of your software applications.
In addition, we provide superb technical support that ensures that questions are dealt with in a timely and professional manner.
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Feature Snapshot
Learn and Go™ functionality for rapidly creating test scripts.
Keyword and data-driven testing using MS-Excel spreadsheets
Built-in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for bitmap applications
Support for testing APIs, RSS and Web Services
Integrates with SpiraTest for test management
Windows (.NET, Win32, WPF) and Web Application testing
Adobe AIR, Flex and Flash support
Silverlight support Java and JavaFX support Cross-browser testing with IE,
Firefox and Chrome Support for Web frameworks
such as GWT, jQuery and YUI Easy extensibility using
Javascript libraries
Listed below are some of the many great features that makes Rapise test automation software the leading choice for companies and organizations worldwide:
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Feature Walkthrough
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Learn and Go™ Recording
Rapise's unique Learn and Go testing method is much more time efficient than traditional record-and-playback processes.
Objects are edited during the learning process instead of waiting for all objects to be recorded then edited.
Faster, more complete test script generation and automatic script updates significantly reduces testing time and gets your application to market faster.
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Playback of Tests
When you record a test, Rapise translates your actions into a script. When you playback the test, the script is executed.
Tests can be either played-back through the Rapise user interface, directly from the command-line, or from a test management system such as SpiraTest.
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Test Script Editing
Rapise scripts are written in JavaScript (Microsoft JScript). You can run and debug your script using the full featured integrated
JavaScript Editor and Debugger. Rapise includes a testing API, with methods for manipulating
images, spreadsheets, common GUI widgets, and more.
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Data Driven Testing
Data-Driven Testing (DDT) is the creation of test scripts to run together with their related data sets in a framework. The framework provides re-usable test logic to reduce maintenance and improve test coverage.
Rapise provides strong support for DDT with the ability to load in sets of test data from an Excel spreadsheet.
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Cross Browser Testing
Rapise's cross-browser capabilities are world-class with support for multiple versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Choose Rapise to test web applications in all of the most used browsers. Create one test script and execute the same script without modification across the major browsers.
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Web Service & API Testing
A web service is a unit of managed code that can be remotely invoked using web protocols. This allows you to share your application’s functionality with other programs.
The purpose of Web Service and API testing is to verify that all of the APIs published by your application operate as expected. API testing requires that you test using all the expected data formats and input parameters.
Rapise provides native support for testing web services. API tests can be integrated with user interface tests for complete coverage.
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Reporting
Rapise comes with powerful and flexible reporting capabilities that allow you to quickly see the results of your testing activities.
You can event customize the data being reported by adding instructions within your test script.
Report Filtering lets you specify criteria to filter your view of the test execution report. Rows that do not match your criteria are hidden.
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SpiraTest Integration
SpiraTest provides an integrated, holistic test management solution that manages your requirements, tests and incidents.
When you use Rapise with SpiraTest, you can centrally manage your automated tests and remotely schedule and launch them in a globally distributed test lab.
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Technologies Supported
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Web Applications
Testing web applications is a core strength of Rapise. With its object recognition technology and DOM abstraction layer is makes developing reusable tests for browser applications very easy.
For more advanced testing you can access the native browser DOM. Rapise supports all recent versions of Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
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Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Library
The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) is an open-source JavaScript library for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML and DOM scripting.
Rapise has built-in support for testing the various components supplied with the YUI library.
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Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source set of tools that allows web developers to create and maintain complex JavaScript front-end applications in Java.
Rapise has built-in support for testing the various components supplied with the toolkit, including GWT-Ext and SmartGWT.
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jQuery AJAX Framework & UI Toolkit
jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich AJAX JavaScript library jQuery UI is a curated set of user interface interactions, effects,
widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. Rapise has built-in support for testing the various jQuery-UI
components including date-pickets, accordions and tab-controls.
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Windows Forms
Rapise provides support for testing Windows Forms applications written using: Visual Basic 6 Microsoft .NET WinForms.
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Microsoft .NET Applications
Rapise provides support for testing Microsoft .NET GUI applications written using any of the supported .NET languages including C#, VB.NET and Managed C++.
It includes support for .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0+ controls.
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Windows 32 GUI Applications
Rapise provides comprehensive support for testing Windows 32 GUI applications, including applications written using: Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) ActiveX Template Library (ATL) Visual Basic 6.0 ActiveX/COM
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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a computer-software graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces.
Rapise supports the testing of Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) applications using a combination of its WPF, Advanced Accessibility and UIAutomation libraries:
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Java Applications (AWT / SWT / Swing)
Rapise supports the testing of Java applications using: The Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) Swing graphic user interface toolkits (Swing)
For maximum flexibility Rapise can connect to your choice of JVM.
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Adobe Applications (Flash/Flex/AIR)
Rapise supports the testing of Adobe Flex applications: Inside Adobe Flash within Internet Explorer, Firefox or Chrome By the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
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Microsoft Silverlight
Rapise supports the testing of Microsoft Silverlight Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Rapise supports the testing of Silverlight using its UIAutomation library
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Third-Party Component Libraries
Rapise supports the testing of applications that use the following third-party component libraries: Infragistics WinExtras/Controls DevExpress DevExperience XtraEditors/Controls Telerik RadControls for WinForms ComponentOne ActiveX Controls
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Web Services - REST
Rapise comes with built-in support for testing RESTful web services using a variety of formats including XML and JSON.
Rapise’s query builder streamlines the testing of your APIs with robust debugging and message tracing.
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Optical Character Recognition
Sometimes you need to get a text written inside a GUI control or find a place on the screen that contains a given text.
It is not always possible to solve this task using objects natively supported by Rapise or Simulated Objects.
In this case Optical Character Recognition (OCR) may help.
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Extensibility Options
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Custom Libraries
The JavaScript source code for library recognition and execution is available to the user, as well as a JavaScript Application Programming Interface (API).
New recognition and execution capabilities can be added to Rapise by the end user and shared with colleagues, giving your team the flexibility to automate where other tools fail.
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Third-Party Extensions – QA Forge
The built-in Package Manager allows you to download third-party libraries from the Rapise QA-Forge.
The QA-Forge is a community website that hosts various third-party libraries not provided by Inflectra.
Teams developing new GUI technologies and web frameworks can publish testing libraries directly to the QA Forge.
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Questions?Please contact [email protected] if you have additional questions.
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