{"id":4876,"date":"2014-07-15T11:03:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T15:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2023-06-29T13:50:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:50:06","slug":"performance-introduces-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2014\/07\/performance-introduces-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Performance Introduces QA Tester&trade; with 6.2 release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I began the work of adding real-browser support to Load Tester, I have been eager to apply that technology to QA and functional testing. As I learned about <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.seleniumhq.org\/\">Selenium\/WebDriver<\/a> and how QA testers were using it, I saw a need for a powerful, easy-to-use tool that builds on Selenium\/WebDriver. This release is our first step towards addressing that need.\u00a0This premier release of QA Tester gives testers a rich UI environment to create test cases with little or no programming experience required.<\/p>\n<p>Test cases can be run together to validate that a test site is functioning correctly, or they can be combined for web load testing. \u00a0That&#8217;s right, a single set of test cases can be used for both functional and load testing! \u00a0Since the basic functionality of test case creating is the same in both cases, it didn&#8217;t make sense to release two separate products. \u00a0Instead, the overall product is now called Web Performance Tester\u2122, and it comes in two versions: Web Performance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/pro-features.html\">QA Tester<\/a>\u2122 and Web Performance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/\">Load Tester<\/a>\u2122. \u00a0 It&#8217;s the same installer that you configure with different licenses depending on how you intend to use it.<\/p>\n<p>While there are free plugin tools available for Selenium\/WebDriver-based testing, there are advantages to using a supported product. \u00a0We&#8217;ve combined a lot of functionality already configured out of the box, so you don&#8217;t have fiddle with setup, and more importantly, we&#8217;re here to give fast support. \u00a0When you have a question or problem, we have phone support available so you can call and get immediate help.<\/p>\n<p>Features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quickly create testcases by recording the scenario in a browser<\/li>\n<li>Visually edit and customize testcases in a rich UI<\/li>\n<li>Automatically capture screenshots, page HTML, browser and WebDriver logs on error<\/li>\n<li>Run large test suites unattended<\/li>\n<li>Parameterize user input, element locators and validators<\/li>\n<li>Validate page title, source and URL, element text and attributes<\/li>\n<li>Wait for conditions before continuing<\/li>\n<li>Measure the duration of any step<\/li>\n<li>Compatible with most apps using iframes and multiple windows<\/li>\n<li>Access to the <a href=\"https:\/\/seleniumhq.github.io\/selenium\/docs\/api\/java\/\">Selenium\/WebDriver Java API<\/a> via custom javascript actions<\/li>\n<li>File uploads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I began the work of adding real-browser support to Load Tester, I have been eager to apply that technology to QA and functional testing. As I learned about <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.seleniumhq.org\/\">Selenium\/WebDriver<\/a> and how QA testers were using it, I saw a need for a powerful, easy-to-use tool that builds on Selenium\/WebDriver. This release is our first step towards addressing that need.\u00a0This premier release of QA Tester gives testers a rich UI environment to create test cases with little or no programming experience required.<br \/>\nTest cases can be run together to validate that a test site is functioning correctly, or they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2014\/07\/performance-introduces-release\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,204,205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-qa-and-functional-testing","category-release-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}