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New TaaS Janova reveals future of cloud-for-testing

13 April 2011 15:18
By PT staff

Several test-tool-as-a-service offerings are emerging and will soon offer very interesting new possibilities for testing. A particularly exciting glimpse of the future is provided by Janova, the functional test execution tool for web applications launched this week. Janova is not only about the cloud: its test creation mechanism and interface is the easiest to use we’ve seen. It’s keyword-driven and requires interface objects to be identified manually but once that is done both keywords and objects are selected from dropdowns and autocomplete lists to form what are approximately English sentences. Here is a test sequence defined in Janova:

Given I go to the search page

And in the search page I enter "ipad" into the "criteria" field
And in the search page I click on "Search"

And in the order page I should see the "person" element
And in the order page I enter "35" into the "units to order field in row 1" field

And in the order page I enter "Dave" into the "person" field

And in the order page I click on "Place order"

And in the confirm order page I should see the text "Sorry, at least one your order 
quantities exceeds your allocation of this item. Order not accepted"

The advantage of a cloud tool becomes most apparent at test execution time. They are run not sequentially but simultaneously by multiple computers, called “workers”. This is ideal for frequent regression testing because a large suite of tests is executed approximately x times faster, where x is the number of workers used, than it would be by a single workstation.
A free 15-day trial is available at http://janova.us.

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