Continuous Integration and Delivery require on-demand testing.
As the frequency of change has increased with the way in which we develop software today, the requirement for automated tests is even more critical.
Yet if automated tests are to be useful, they must be easy to develop and maintain.
AscentialTest users build tests from reusable components so that changes can be isolated to the smallest unit.
When the target application changes, only impacted object definitions or steps require change. All of the tests that use those components are automatically updated. This approach not only enables rapid test development, but it also reduces the cost, time and level of effort to keep tests up to date so that they are ready to run when needed.
To support CI and DevOps, AscentialTest provides a growing number of integration features: