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Automated GUI Testing for Java Applications

Squish for Java provides a powerful and maintainable GUI test automation solution, ensuring reliable test execution across Java applications. By reducing manual testing efforts, integrating seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines, and enabling faster release cycles, Squish helps organizations improve software quality while optimizing development costs.

 

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Stable and Fully Automated Java GUI Tests

Squish for Java provides test engineers with a robust automation framework with stable test execution and scripting in multiple languages. It supports Swing, JavaFX, SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit), and Eclipse RCP applications, ensuring comprehensive test coverage for various Java GUI technologies.

Seamless Integration and Automated Test Execution

UI testing with Squish for Java seamlessly integrates into agile workflows. Its robust object recognition, script-based testing, and support for CI/CD pipelines ensure early bug detection, reduced regressions, and faster feature delivery—helping teams maintain high software quality with minimal disruption.

Efficient Test Creation with Long-term Maintainability 

Squish for Java enables efficient test creation and long-term maintainability with features like easy test case recording and replay functionality, powerful scripting, full BDD integration, and remote- and multi-application testing, making it the best choice for testing Java-based GUIs.

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Squish for Java Applications

Squish can be used as your automated GUI testing tool for all kinds of Java applications on Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS X platforms. Squish features automated GUI testing of applications based on Java Swing/AWT, SWT/Eclipse RCP or JavaFX including support for embedded Web content. Scripts created on one platform work without modification on all other supported platforms.

Squish includes dedicated support for:

Testing applications based on Java Swing/AWT, SWT/Eclipse RCP or JavaFX

Testing Java Web Start (JNLP) applications

Testing WebSwing applications

Testing Java applets

Windows only: Testing embedded native Windows controls

Standard Swing/AWT/SWT/RCP/JavaFX controls

Complex Swing/AWT/SWT/RCP/JavaFX controls (Item views, menus, tabs, etc.)

Remote testing of applications and testing multiple applications from a single test script

Custom controls derived from Swing/AWT/SWT/RCP controls

Extension plugin mechanism to add dedicated support for complex custom controls

Script access to the complete Java APIs

Access to all standard and complex objects and object properties

GEF controls

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Squish for Other Applications

The beauty of Squish is that it is compatible with a wide range of browsers, operating systems, and platforms.

Beyond Java applications, it can also be used to automate Qt, native Windows, Web and HTML5, Android and iOS, macOS, and Tk applications. It also supports all applications running on desktop, mobile, or embedded devices capable of running a VNC server.

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My Java Swing application has a lot of graphical interfaces, so it’s impossible to validate all of them by hand. Squish permits to increase the test coverage without increasing the duration of the validation

Vincent Laigle, Validation Team Leader, SAGEM

Success Stories

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APC

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American Power Conversion Corp. (APC) implemented Squish for Java to automate functional testing of their InfraStruXure® product's user interface, built with Java Swing, AWT, RCP, and SWT, running on Linux and Windows platforms.

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SAGEM

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SAGEM adopted Squish for Java to automate GUI testing of their Java Swing application on embedded Linux platforms, enhancing test coverage without extending validation time.

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German Federal Office of Information Technology

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The German Federal Office of Information Technology (BIT) selected Squish for Java over competitors QF-Test and SilkTest to automate GUI testing for their EPOS application, ensuring continued quality in its development

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