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Design Canvas™ 1.0
Scriptless Recording
Automation Surface™
Testcase Maintenance
Sentence Based™ UI
Web Element Abstraction
DataDriven Testing
Code Customization
VS Team Test Integration
Stress/Load Testing
Generate UnitTests
Visual Storyboard
30 sec. QuickStart Videos
QuickStart Guide

WebAii™ Automation Design Canvas™ 1.0:

Build test automation in minutes vs hours

Shave weeks off your release schedules. No code to write or script to craft! WebAii Automation Design Canvas is built from the ground up to support rich Web 2.0 applications. It utilizes an advanced designer surface that makes test automation as easy as point and click, allowing for seamless crafting of verifications and synchronizations for dynamic AJAX pages.
Simple but powerful.

You won’t need to wade through 1000 page user manuals or take weeks of training to become a pro at using WebAii Automation Design Canvas. A quick start guide is all you need to get started building test automation like a professional. The designer is highly customizable allowing advanced users to alter how recording is done. The optional code behind model allows developers to fully customize recorded tests whenever needed.
Built with maintenance in mind.

One of the difficult aspects of test automation to overcome is that it needs to be constantly maintained. Test automation needs to be constantly updated as the product being tested or the test environment changes. We have built in features that give you the ability to rapidly resolve testing failures and quickly and easily update your tests as well as track how product changes might have affected your tests.
Visual Studio Team System Integration.

WebAii Design Canvas™ 1.0 is fully integrated in Visual Studio Team Test 2008. We add one additional test type to what Visual Studio offers. It integrates fully into the life cycle management of tests that VS offers including test case management, test execution, source control, remote execution and reporting using team foundation server.

Product Requirements:

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2008 or

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 - (Any Edition)

* Pricing will be announced by April 30th.

Scriptless/Codeless Recording
Navigate, point and click is all it takes to generate most of your automated tests! Run the scenario once in the designer and an automated test is generated for you. Then run the recorded test against IE and/or Firefox to catch product regressions and bugs. Each recorded step has settable properties that allow you to update and customize a test step without having to re-record.

Automation Overlay Surface™(AOS)
Turn your web page into a gallery of test automation tasks! The Automation Overlay Surface™ (AOS) enables you to visually highlight an element, locate it in the DOM tree and automatically generate common verification or synchronization tasks. These generated tasks are automatically added to your test as a test step (for example, verify an item is selected in a dropdown or a wait for an element to become visible). These tasks are automatically initialized to the current state of the highlighted element. As soon as you pick one an automation step is instantly recorded against that element with the proper settings without the need to enter anything. In the past, these tasks typically required the tester to switch several times between the IE Developer Toolbar/Firebug, and his/her recording tool.

Testcase Maintenance
Test maintenance requirements are at a new low! There are several built in features in the designer that target failure resolution of tests and test maintenance. For example, when a test fails because it cannot find an element, the designer enables you to go back and compare the page from the time of recording to the current failing page. This helps you to quickly discover the change that caused your failure. In addition the designer includes live validation for both verification updates and element find parameter updates. You no longer need to execute your tests over and over to validate changes. This is an enormous time saver in test maintenance!

"Sentence Based"™ Verification UI
Build your rule as if you were writing a sentence! To make crafting verification and synchronization as simple as possible, we developed an innovative "Sentence Based"™ UI that guides you through crafting verifications and test synchronization with elements. It is similar to an adaptive wizard that changes depending on the target element. Using the “Sentence Based” UI you can craft a wide range of verification types from attributes to styles to tables to select dropdowns to element visibility and much more. The “Sentence Based” UI guides you through crafting the verification criteria by first loading the state of the target element into the context of the rule being crafted. It then offers you verification criteria one step at a time until the verification step is complete.

Web Element Abstraction

All web page elements targeted for automation in your tests are abstracted out and filed under a specific page/frame in the "Element Explorer". If there are multiple actions that use the same element, the element is referenced from the “Element Explorer” instead of being duplicated in the test. This enables you to maintain only one unique element and update it in the event of a required change instead of having to modify multiple duplicate elements. This is huge time saver when talking about test maintenance costs!

Another common significant time consuming task that testers complain about for web automation is figuring out how to uniquely locate a specific element on a page. When it comes to dynamic pages, this task gets even more complex and time consuming. The WebAii Automation Design Canvas makes this task almost trivial! It is empowered with a configurable algorithm to automatically determine the best find parameters to use to uniquely locate a specific element on a page. This algorithm is configurable using the designer settings. In addition users can create their own schemes and find logic there.

Data Driven Testing
The designer comes with rich support for data driven testing. All recorded steps (Actions/Verifications or synchronizations) come with data driven properties that allow you to bind them to a data source. The designer supports all the data sources that come with Visual Studio Team Test (Database, CSV, XML). In addition it has a built in data grid that allows you to quickly build your own data source right inside your test without having to revert to external sources and manage external dependencies.

Code Customization
The WebAii Automation Design Canvas supports a code behind model for recorded tests. In this model users can customize specific steps within a test using coded functions (VB.NET or C#). These coded functions are automatically detected and added to ”Test Explorer” as test steps. You manage these steps just like the rest of your recorded steps (i.e. re-order them, enable them… etc.)

Visual Studio Team Test Integration
Automation Design Canvas is a first class citizen in the world of Visual Studio Team Test 2008. This allows WebAii tests to behave exactly like other built-in Visual Studio Team Test types (e.g. Web Tests, Unit Tests...). WebAii tests can be aggregated with all the other VS Team Test types in the run manager, test lists and test view. They also act just like other VS test types for participation in Source Control and TFS with Continuous Integration Server and remote execution and reporting.

Generate Load Tests from WebAii Tests
Load tests can be auto-generated on demand! With one click of a button a VS WebTest is generated out of your recorded WebAii test which can then be used in load testing. This is a yet another huge time saver! All of your WebAii tests can easily be used as the base for your load tests. By leveraging their ease of update and the element explorer abstraction you save significant time as compared to having to maintain more cumbersome VS WebTests.

Generate Unit Tests

Automation Design Canvas enables you to take any of your recorded tests and generate coded unit tests from them. Automation Design Canvas supports generating NUnit as well as VS Unit tests.

The Unit Test can be generated in two modes. The first mode leverages the designer to manage your elements. You continue to use the designer to find elements and change/validate the find logic of an element. Your Unit Test performs the test logic as instructed by the recorded steps in your test.

The second mode enables you to generate a fully self contained Unit Test. These tests can be moved into other projects or run in isolation of your current test project.

Visual Storyboard
As you record your test, a screenshot of your action on the target element is captured to the story board. This gives you a visual flow of how your test has progressed. It is a great time saver in helping others understand the state of the test at the time of recording along with what the target elements of the tests were.