froglogic Announces Support for Testing XView Applications with Squish
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availability of Squish supporting testing applications written using
the XView toolkit.
Squish, which is an automated GUI test tool, so far supported
automated testing of applications written using the Qt GUI
toolkit. Right from the start, the makers of Squish designed the
testing framework to make adding support for different toolkits as
easy as creating new add-on modules.
Reuters Financial Software initially chose and utilized Squish to
automate testing of their new Qt-based version of Kondor+3.0, Reuters
deal capturing, position keeping and pricing system.
"Reuters has been investing in Quality Assurance for years both at a
Process & Method level and at a testing level. In order to satisfy our
customers demand, our testing approach is increasingly based on the
principle of automating the tests for a better management and
measurement of test coverage. Reuters choice for software testing
solutions is usually oriented towards the big players of the market,
whose products cannot always satisfy specific needs. Squish has proven
to be an excellent tool that can easily interoperate with testing
software from major vendors. It can test our cross-platform Qt based
Kondor+ 3.0. At the same time we also wanted to leverage our effort by
using Squish to automate testing our prior versions of Kondor+, which
have been implemented using the XView toolkit. So we talked to
froglogic with the result that they added support for the XView
toolkit to Squish. A data-driven approach of the testing enabled us to
adapt very easily our existing scripts to Kondor+ 2.6 and 2.5. We are
now working on the next step: integrating Squish into our existing
test framework", said Thierry Duchamp, QA Manager for Risk of Reuters
Financial Software.
Now Reuters Financial Software is able to use the same testing tool,
namely Squish, to test both, the XView-based and Qt-based versions of
Kondor+ on multiple platforms.
"It was a pleasure to cooperate with Reuters Financial Software and
their competent engineers to jointly realize XView support in
Squish. We are also very satisfied to have proven this way that
Squish's modular design allows for easy extensions such as support for
new GUI toolkits. We will keep adding support for new toolkits this
way as demand arises", said Reginald Stadlbauer, CTO of froglogic.
XView support for Squish is now available. If you would like to try
out Squish for Qt or XView or have any questions regarding Squish,
please contact us at squ...@froglogic.com. More information can be
found at www.froglogic.com/squish.
About froglogic
froglogic GmbH is a software company offering Qt consultancy services
and Qt-based development tools. froglogic was founded by two former
Trolltech senior engineers, Reginald Stadlbauer and Harri Porten, who
now use their experience and skills to serve the Qt 3rd party
market. froglogic is based in Hamburg, Germany. More about froglogic
at www.froglogic.com.
About Reuters Financial Software
Reuters Financial Software is a subsidiary company of Reuters.
Reuters is over 15,500 employees in nearly 92 countries, with revenues
of 4.8 billion EUR. Reuters is also the world's leading international
press agency, with an editorial staff composed of 2,400 journalists
and photographers working in 197 offices, serving some 130 countries.
Reuters, whose reputation is based on its constant technological
innovation and on the criteria of speed, precision and the unique
ability to supply its clients, the world over, with content,
technology and connectivity. This technology enables Reuters 427.000
users in over 150 countries to access information in real-time : news,
market data, corporate information, business indicators, etc.
Reuters Financial Software's is a publisher of business software for
trading rooms. Our job has led us to design, develop, document,
validate and maintain our software on our site in Paris La
Défense.Reuters Financial Software is one of the main Reuters
development centers for applications and financial solutions in the
world. Since our creation, we have constantly evolved, extending our
product and service offer, growing our staff (+400 employees today)
and positioning our products as a key element within the Reuters
Group. Our products address operators on the financial markets,
especially in financial information management, positions and risks,
purchase order management and financial instrument sales. Product
developments are also generating increased needs for service. Reuters
Financial Software offers a complete line of Front to Back Office
solutions, distributed throughout the world by Reuters. An important
factor to our successful development, this distribution system enables
Reuters Financial Software to focus on its core business, software
development. This enables our clients and the market to benefit from
advancement in technology and finance. Listening to our clients, in
constant anticipation of their needs, Reuters Financial Software has
always enjoyed exceptional interactivity with the market.
This unique way of working has been materialized through advanced
products that are nevertheless adapted to the daily reality of our
customers.Today, our products are installed in over 9.000 trading
rooms, and used by nearly 200.000 users.