TestWise IDE

Certainly. As matter of fact, this tool is built with non-programmers in mind!

We don't believe output from 'record-n-playback' tools are proper test scripts for real world, certainly without testers' refinement. If testers don't have full understanding of test scripts (commonly in proprietary syntax), how can they make changes? (Is there anybody still believing the fairy tale of 'requirement never changes ...')

Developing test scripts in TestWise might look like programming, but it is much simpler and easier than many (without programming) thought, how about this one?

 click_link('Login')
 enter_text('username', 'bob')
 enter_password('password', 'thetester')
 click_button('Login')
 page_text.should include('Welcome Bob')

The best place to start is trying some sample tests under samples\ folder, then create your own project and using TestWise Recorder to create your first test. You will be surprised how easy it is!

Yes. The test framework used in TestWise is RWebSpec, is an extension of popular Watir. You can check out Watir Testimonials. Watir's growing popularity can be approved from its clones: WatiN in Mircosoft .NET platform and Watij in Java Platform.

To quantify test framework's reliability, here we quote the test expert Lisa Crispin (author of 'Agile Testing') "We have a number of Watir suites, plus one big giant suite that includes all the others, the giant one takes maybe 3 hours to run." (here).

Here is a Comparison of Watir with Silk Test (conducted in 2005 by Tuyet Cong-Ton-Nu)

We believe automated testing shall be accessible to majority (if not all) team members. We have seen TestWise among mostly used software in teams embracing automated testing. Developers use it for verifying their own work; Customers, Team Leaders, Business Analysts and testers all have use of it. Here we give you an example usage: a team leader runs a test suite before going to a presentation confidently. More importantly, you will see power of team co-operation.

There is absolutely NO catches. All the tools (except IDE) are open source and free, and tests created by TestWise IDE can be executed from command line, and may be edited by other IDE or text editors.

The $449/$1249 price is not a mistake!

Firstly, 'Open-Source' is not equal to 'Free'. Richcard Stallman, founder of GNU, says: "When we call software 'free', we mean that it respects the users' essential freedoms". TestWise gives your maximum freedom, it’s test framework, recorder and runtime are all free and open-source. You can run tests without TestWise IDE. Making tool itself open-source has no benefits to users, just like we want PDF format to be an open standard, but don’t really care how Adobe Acrobat Reader is made.

In fact, offering software completely free (price) is not necessarily good for customers. How often have you seen developers abandoning free, open-source projects? (You probably won't do your job free for long either.) Instead, our approach is sustainable: affordable testing tools that gives users maximum freedom with support.

Yes. Installing Ruby and RWebSpec (or just get RubyShell), and run from command line

 spec -fs your_spec.rb

Yes, TestWise IDE can be run on Linux and Mac OS X, as matter of fact, a lot of development are done on Mac. Due to limited resources, releasing non-Windows versions are currently considered as low priority tasks. If there are considerable number of demand in TestWise IDE on Linux, we will make it high priority.

An early release of Mac version is available for download, here is a screenshot of TestWise IDE on Mac.

We are working on a separate product (code name: LoadWise) for load testing, the free runtime is available. The LoadWise IDE is under development, which look very promising.

Yes, but it will be more complex than testing web applications, as windows applications do not have standard controls like web apps. The test framework is called rFormUnit, it share same concepts of using page objects to make tests readable and maintainable.

1. Download and install AutoIT3, using its "AutoIt Window Info" tool to identify controls. Sorry, no recording tool here.
2. Open project C:\Program Files\TestWise\samples\form_calculator\calculator.tpr, run it you shall see the ruby test scripts driving Windows' calculator.

Yes. Checkout this article. Also we include a sample project with build script under C:\Program Files\TestWise\samples\continuous_integration

Yes, Selenium 2 (aka Selenium-WebDriver) is supported in TestWise 2, you may run seleniums tests against IE, Firefo, Chrome on Windows/Mac platforms.

Yes. TestWise 2 supports tests written in Cucumber as well as RSpec.

A floating (roaming) license allows multiple users to share use of the software, whereas a named license is locked down to a specific user.

Yes, you can. There are no restrictions on machines or locations. For floating license, you can have up to concurrent use of TestWise you purchased; For named license, the registered user can use the software on different machines.

No, not at all.

We offer 12-month free upgrades. After that, existing TestWise Users get 50% discount on upgrades.

All licensed users are access to unlimited E-mail support, Free. Customers can also select supporting services suit their needs.

TestWise Product Support

• Priority support and feature requests
• Create the TestWise project with a working test case

Consulting on automated testing and continuous integration

• Setting up Continuous Build Server with acceptance tests, and even Lava Lamp
• Test Script Reviews

TestWise Commmunity Edition has adequate features (including refactoring) to help create, edit, run test scripts. Team features such as version control, environment selection and reporting are excluded. Selenium and Cucumber support are also excluded.

Community Edition is limited to personal or non-comercial use. The conditions for commercial use:

• Only one person can use TestWise Community Edition in a project team, i.e, only you.
• No other functional testing tools (including TestWise Professional Edition) being used in your project.

TestWise leads the testing tools in terms of being open and affordable. The test framework (RWebSpec), runtime (RubyShell) and recorder are all free.

We don't think free software actually serves customer's best interests, especially GUI software (paying graphic design, dealing with various UI issues, and donation of free frameworks ...). Over the years, we have seen many free, open-source projects being abandoned (for obvious reasons). This could mean loss of your investment of effort and time. Being a paid customer, you will not only have assurance of long-standing products, but also know you can get support (note: AgileWay's support will surprise you with joy).

Have a read of this intriguing blog post: 'Which tool would you pick...' from Venkat (Author of 'Practices of Agile Developer')

Yes, TestWiseRecorder (a Firefox add-on) can record your operations in a Firefox browser into executable test scripts, Refer installation guide and Screencasts on using it.

TestWise 2 includes a recorder for IE (early release).

Install Ruby runtime and rwebspec gem (with dependent libraries), or simply download RubyShell. Start windows command and run the command

spec your_spec.rb 

Yes. RWebSpec (the default syntax in TestWise) supports most Watir syntax directly, like

click_link("first: using RWebSpec syntax") # RWebSpec syntax
link(:text, "second: using Watir syntax").click  # Watir syntax

TestWise supports pure Watir tests as well, but without certain features. Check sample projects for details.

If you want to switch to RWebSpec (and introducing page objects for maintainability), it may be easier than you think. Running Watir tests against Firefox with TestWiseRecorder enabled, you will get executable RWebSpec test steps. It might also be a good time do some refactorings.

It may be configuration issues of your machine prevent TestWise starting up properly, to find out:

Start Command window (Click 'Start' -> 'Run', type in 'cmd').

  cd c:\Program Files\TestWise
  testwise-console.bat

If you can't figure out from the error message displayed, please send it to support@agileway.com.au