Conformiq Designer

AI’s Impact on the Future of Testing Industry

Is Artificial Intelligence Changing The Future Of Testing Industry? Current Testing Landscape: Manual and automated testing– these two primary testing warriors work in tandem to uncover software faults and defects. AI promises to handle repetitive, monotonous tasks, freeing up time for more essential work. AI software ...

Guidewire GT Support for UI & API Testing

With our approach, Guidewire users can now access test automation framework for guidewire platforms enabling Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) Press Release California, October 21 2021. Conformiq, the leading provider of next generation test automation solutions announced release of Guidewire GT framework which will enable the users ...

Conformiq’s Response to Log4j Vulnerability

Press Release California, Dec 16th 2021. On December 9th/10th 2021, a zero-day vulnerability in the Apache Java logging library Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) was discovered. While we still investigate the issue at a deeper level, we want to assure our users that there is no immediate impact on our products – Conformiq Creator and Conformiq ...

Generating Tests for Mutation Analysis

Recently I wrote a blog post about mutation testing. That post was a high level overview of what mutation testing is and how mutation analysis can be applied in automatic test generation. This time I was thinking of writing a more hands-on blog post about how to interpret and understand test cases generated by Conformiq’s recently introduced ...

Designer 5.0: Revolutionize Mutation Testing

We are super excited to announce the release of Conformiq Designer 5.0 which includes a support for mutation testing! This version of Designer automatically designs and generates test cases that target certain types of software bugs. This support will not only immensely increase the quality of the generated test cases, but also provides a better ...

Designer 5.0: Revolutionize Mutation Testing

Mutation testing is a software testing method which involves modifying the system code in small changes, yielding a faulty system, a mutant of the original one. These changes mimic typical errors that a programmer could have made. The goal is to find weaknesses in a test suite and to develop more effective one. Mutation analysis is typically ...

MBT User Survey 2016: Conformiq’s Insights

As part of its engagement in the global MBT community Conformiq would like to raise awareness about the MBT User Survey 2016 which is conducted by an independent group (Robert V. Binder, Carnegie-Mellon University Software Engineering Institute; Anne Kramer, sepp.med gmbh; Bruno Legeard, Smartesting & University of Franche-Comté). If you have ...

Model-Driven Workflow in Software Testing

Recently I wrote a blog post about the action language adopted and standardized by the OMG (Object Management Group) called Action Language for fUML or Alf where I alluded about something that I call “model driven workflow” (MDW) — a modeling workflow that embraces modeling across the whole software development lifecycle integrating design, ...

Modeling with ALF Action Language in Testing

I remember more than 10 years ago when we were making a decision on what the modeling language we should be using for creating Conformiq Designer models. It was quite clear that we wanted to have a graphical notation that the user could use to capture high-level control flow and life cycle of objects as well as event loop structures and high-level ...

Conformiq Test Generation Technology Insights

Quite often when people talk about MBT (Model Based Testing) they intuitively assume that model is always something with “boxes and arrows”; that is the model in MBT needs to be graphical and it is constructed out of some kind of nodes or vertices which are then connected using arrows of some sort. To some, model may simply mean a state chart or ...

Debunking “I Know All Needed Test Cases” Myth

I would be a very rich man if I would get paid a dime every time I hear this statement when meeting a potential customer. “I already know the test cases that we need.” Frankly, I have a really hard time understanding this statement and always need to be careful not to reply with “You’ve got to be kidding me”. During my professional career I ...

Conformiq Designer: For Testers or Developers?

We are asked every now and then whether Conformiq Designer is a tool for testers or a tool for developers. After all, it is a tool for automated test design and it automatically generates tests from computer readable models that describe the intended behavior of the tested system. It is important to understand that these models do not directly ...