Squish
Ease of Test Creation and Maintenance
Take the complexity out of testing graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and human-machine interfaces (HMIs) – even in the face of product evolution and safety-critical applications.
Ease of Test Creation and Maintenance
Easily create and maintain automated tests to keep up with agile development. If creating or updating tests is challenging or time-consuming, your team might feel the urge to avoid writing or maintaining them, which could lead to tests becoming outdated or ineffective.
Behavior Driven Development and Testing
Bridge the Gap Between Teams with BDD
How Squish Empowers BDD and Behavior-Driven Testing
Take a look at our tutorial below to see how to record BDD test cases with Squish for a seamless integration into your BDD testing framework.
BDD GUI Test Recording in SquishSeamless Gherkin Integration
Squish allows you to write feature files in Gherkin syntax, making it easy to define clear, human-readable scenarios that stakeholders and team members can understand.
Automated Step Mapping
Squish automatically maps Gherkin steps to test scripts, enabling rapid and efficient creation of automated tests. You can link reusable scripts to multiple scenarios, reducing redundancy and saving time.
Cross-Platform Versatility
Squish supports testing across a wide range of platforms, including desktop, mobile, web, and embedded systems. This ensures that your BDD approach is scalable and adaptable to any environment.
Powerful IDE and Debugging Tools
With its integrated development environment, Squish provides tools for editing, debugging, and executing BDD test cases, ensuring seamless development and maintenance of your test suite.
Real-Time Reporting
Squish’s comprehensive reporting tools allow you to monitor the progress and results of your BDD tests, keeping stakeholders informed and fostering transparency.
Record-and-Playback
Record-and-Playback is a user-friendly approach to test automation that enables teams to create test cases without extensive coding knowledge. By capturing user interactions with an application such as clicks, text input, and navigation Record-and-Playback tools automatically generate test scripts that can be replayed to validate application functionality.
Automate Tests - No Coding Required
How Squish Streamlines Test Creation with Record-and-Playback
Squish enhances Record-and-Playback functionality to playback tests and therefore provide a robust and flexible framework for test case creation, ensuring high-quality automated tests that are easy to maintain and execute.
See Record-and-Playback in actionIntuitive Recording Interface
Squish features an easy-to-use recorder that captures user actions across a wide range of applications, including desktop, mobile, web, and embedded systems. This enables teams to quickly create comprehensive test scripts.
High-Fidelity Object Recognition
Squish doesn’t just record surface-level interactions—it identifies and tracks UI elements through object properties. This ensures your tests remain reliable even when the UI layout changes.
Cross-Platform Capability
Squish’s Record-and-Playback functionality supports multiple platforms, ensuring your test cases can be recorded and replayed seamlessly, regardless of the target environment.
Script Enhancement and Customization
While recording generates a fully functional script, Squish allows for easy editing and customization. Advanced users can add validations, loops, and parameterized inputs to make the tests more dynamic and robust.
Efficient Maintenance Tools
Squish provides tools to update object maps and recorded steps quickly, ensuring your scripts remain up to date with minimal effort, even as your application evolves.
Playback and Debugging Features
Squish offers reliable playback of recorded scripts and robust debugging tools to verify test accuracy and identify issues during test execution.
Real-World Scripting Languages
Powerful Test Automation with Industry-Standard Languages
How Squish Supports Test Case Creation with Real-World Scripting Languages
Multi-Language Support
Squish allows you to write test scripts in popular scripting languages like Python, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby, and Tcl. Teams can choose the language they are most comfortable with, reducing the learning curve and boosting productivity.
Rich API for Interaction
Squish provides a robust API for interacting with UI elements, capturing screenshots, validating states, and handling complex application behaviors. The API is easy to use and integrates seamlessly with supported languages.
Leverage Existing Libraries
By supporting standard scripting languages, Squish enables integration with third-party libraries and frameworks. Whether it’s for advanced data manipulation, API calls, or additional validation, your tests can leverage the full power of the programming ecosystem.
Code Reusability and Modularization
With real-world scripting, teams can design reusable functions, shared modules, and parameterized test cases, reducing duplication and improving the efficiency of test maintenance.
Built-in IDE Support
Squish’s integrated development environment provides tools for writing, editing, debugging, and managing test scripts. Syntax highlighting, auto-completion, and debugging tools make the scripting process smooth and efficient.
Model-Based Testing
Generate Automated Tests from Application Models
How Squish Enables Model-Based Testing
Squish integrates seamlessly with model-based testing workflows, providing the tools and features needed to harness the full potential of this methodology.
Step-by-Step Implementation GuideModel Integration
Squish can work with popular MBT tools to generate automated test cases directly from application models. This eliminates the need for manual test case design, ensuring accurate and efficient testing.
Behavior Simulation
Squish allows testers to simulate user interactions and workflows based on the logic defined in the model. This ensures that real-world use cases are validated across different scenarios.
Dynamic Test Generation
Squish supports dynamic generation of test scripts based on the model, ensuring that as the application evolves, tests remain relevant without requiring significant manual intervention.
Seamless Execution
Squish can execute MBT-generated test cases across its supported platforms, including desktop, web, mobile, and embedded systems, ensuring end-to-end validation.
Rich Reporting and Analytics
Squish provides detailed reports and insights on the execution of MBT test cases, helping teams identify bottlenecks and improve the testing process.
Integration with Automation Frameworks
Squish’s compatibility with various test automation frameworks and environments allows it to blend MBT seamlessly into existing workflows, enhancing scalability and maintainability.
Object Identification
Flaky tests often stem from unreliable element identification. Squish uses Object-Based Recognition, meaning test scripts interact directly with UI elements—not just their appearance. This approach ensures stable, maintainable, and technology-independent test automation.
Robust Test Automation with Object-Based Recognition
How Squish Supports Object Identification and Object Maps
Check our documentation to learn how Squish supports object identification and object maps.
Learn more about Object Identification and Object MapsCentralized Object Maps
Squish includes a built-in object map editor that allows you to store and organize UI element properties in a single location. This makes it easy to manage and update object references, improving test maintainability.
Intelligent Object Identification
Squish uses advanced algorithms to capture and identify UI elements based on their unique properties, such as IDs, text, and hierarchy. This ensures that your tests interact reliably with the right elements, even in dynamic or complex interfaces.
Dynamic and Resilient Locators
Squish allows for the use of dynamic locators and fallback strategies, ensuring robust identification of objects even when the UI undergoes changes or updates.
Easy-to-Use Object Spy
Squish’s intuitive Object Spy tool provides a visual way to explore application UI elements, capture their properties, and add them to the object map seamlessly.
Object Map Synchronization
Squish enables automatic synchronization of object maps with recorded test cases, ensuring that object references remain consistent and up-to-date.
Script and Code Integration
Squish integrates object maps directly into test scripts, enabling parameterized and reusable object definitions that enhance test scalability and clarity.