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Announcing Twist 2.4
Post posted January 2, 2012 by sdqali
The Twist team is pleased to announce the General Access release of Twist 2.4.

This release of Twist comes with a whole set of cool new features. Some of these are listed below:

1. SynonymAssist

SynonymAssist is a feature in Twist that lets you search for content(steps and concepts) by matching steps and concepts against synonyms of words that you have typed in. Typing in word(s) and invoking Synonym Assist will provide a list of suggestions steps and concepts to select from. You can read more about the Synonym Assist here.

2. Improved Autocomplete

The Auto-complete feature now comes with improved ordering of search results. Twist Content Assist will now display results ordered by concepts first, followed by implemented workflow steps and finally unimplemented steps.

3. Selenium upgrade

Selenium driver bundled with Twist is upgraded to version 2.15.

4. Spring upgrade

With upgrade to Spring 3.1, Twist provides additional capabilities like Annotation based configuration to initialize tests. More details can be found here.

The installers for Twist 2.4 can be downloaded from here.

If you already have an instance of Twist, instructions on how to upgrade Twist can be found here.

Happy Twisting,

The Twist Team.
Announcing Twist 2.3.1 with Eclipse 3.7 and Selenium 2.5...1
Post last edited August 30, 2011 by Srijayanth Sridhar
We are pleased to announce the release of Twist 2.3.1. Twist is now based on Eclipse 3.7 Indigo platform. We have also upgraded Twist to support to Selenium v2.5.

Please read the notes below for notes on the 2.3 major release.

We are pleased to announce the release of Twist 2.3 encompassing full support for the recently released, major update to the popular open source browser automation framework Selenium 2(version 2.5).
As well as adding selenium support with recording capabilities for the WebDriver API, we have continued to improve Twist's test authoring and maintenance features.

With this release you can now;

Quickly set up and create tests using the Selenium 2 driver.
Create maintainable tests using Twist's atomic recording for WebDriver.
Play back immediately via the Twist editor or within your continuous integration environment.
Improved configuration means you can quickly change the browser in which you wish to execute your tests.

Twist 2.3 also supports authoring and playback of Selenium tests for mobile browsers on Android or iOS devices.
Record a test on a desktop browser such as Firefox then quickly replay on your mobile device.
Further enhancements to our refactoring support allows you to selectively propagate concepts, inline existing concepts and search for existing concepts.

To upgrade your existing version of Twist go to http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/twist-agile-test-automation/2.3.1/help/upgrading_twist.html and follow the instructions "Upgrading to Twist 2.3".

To download the Twist 2.3.1 installer follow the link below.

Cheers,

Twist team

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Recording Flex objects from an application using Selenium...5
Post posted August 8, 2011 by Gaurav Deore
Hi All,

I have done all required setting to record the flex object from an application as per http://code.google.com/p/flex-ui-selenium/. And now able to see the flex commands in selenium IDE window & separete names for flex objects .

When I started recording, flex objects doesn't get record where as feilds are showing name when mouse cursor is hover on flex elements. So anyone help me regards to it?

Selenium IDE window has "Flex Explorer" , is it useful for flex object recording?

Looking for guidance to record flex objects ..... plz lets know me solution for this.

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Thanks,

Gaurav
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- August 8, 2011 by Andy Kemp: Hi, Twist is a powerfull commercial test tool that works alongside...
- August 8, 2011 by Gaurav Deore: ok, So Twist is separete product for testing flex based applications....
- August 8, 2011 by Andy Kemp: Hi Gaurav, This is the community forum for the ThoughtWorks Studios...
Testing Flash applications with Twist11
Post posted May 16, 2010 by Manish Chakravarty
We've received queries regarding testing Flash applications with Twist.

Twist uses a piece of software called a driver to run your tests. Simply put a driver is a piece of software which drives your tests. In the context of testing web applications, a driver typically embeds or opens up a browser and issues commands to the Application Under Test running inside the browser.

Twist ships with Selenium 0.9.2 and Sahi drivers for testing web applications.

To test Flash applications with Twist, the Flash Selenium driver must be used. Flash Selenium is available at http://code.google.com/p/flash-selenium/ There are instructions on the site that help you setup and going ( at a standalone driver level )

To use Flash Selenium with Twist , please follow the instructions at http://www.thoughtworks-studios.com/twist-agile-test-automation/2.0/help/how_do_i_use_other_selenium_versions_with_twist.html

The Flash Selenium driver is not supported by ThoughtWorks Studios.

NOTE: For testing Flex applications there is Flex Selenium - http://code.google.com/p/flex-ui-selenium/
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- August 8, 2011 by Gaurav Deore: Hi manish, If you would have any experience about Flex with selenium...
What’s New in Twist 2.2?
Post posted April 7, 2011 by Andy Kemp
Record - Analyze - Organize - the better way
Twist 2.2 continues to empower your team with cutting-edge functionality to get to market faster with robust, easy-to-maintain automated test suites. It eases test automation while reducing maintenance effort of large test suites with feature enhancements to test recording, refactoring analysis capabilities and test suite organization. Twist 2.2 provides support to record multiple steps at one go, intelligence for efficient refactoring, improved tagging and filtering, and a host of usability enhancements. With Twist 2.2 you can:
- Simplify record-and-play with support to record multiple steps: Drastically simplify the recording of lengthy test cases with support to record multiple test steps sequentially in the same recording session.
- Improve test robustness with the Scenario Analyzer: Twist 2.2 provides intelligent analysis on how best to structure and optimally refactor your test suites. The Scenario Analyzer, inspects your tests and identifies patterns of test steps that are repeatedly used within a test suite. You can then use existing refactoring features such as the "extract concept" and "push to implementation" to simplify the structure of your test suites and thus improve their maintainability and robustness.
- Enhance organization of large test suites with Saved Filters: Twist 2.2 provides a better way of organizing tests by saving tag combinations. These saved filters help to categorize and order large test suites for easy management and fast retrieval.
- Usability enhancements: Twist 2.2 provides a host of usability enhancements that include autocomplete for parameters, support for creating and maintaining workflow fixtures, visual reporting for contexts, word wrap in the scenario editor, display of contextual data in concepts and usability-rich refactoring features.
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What's new in Twist 2.1?
Post posted August 10, 2010 by Ananth
1. Change propagation across project :

In 2.0 Extracting Concepts would affect only the scenario in which the action was performed. In Twist 2.1 we have made both “Extract Concepts” and “Push to Implementation” propagate that change across the whole project, thus bringing it to the desired level of abstraction.

2. Parallel Execution :

Parallel execution allows multiple twist scenarios to be executed simultaneously. It allows test suites to be executed faster. This feature requires the use of a driver that supports concurrent execution. Sahi and Selenium Grid currently support parallel execution.

3. Sahi – Usability improvements :

Setting up a Sahi project has been simplified in Twist 2.1. The user no longer needs to deal with the nuances of twist.properties. Twist now identifies the platform automatically and populates the necessary derivable properties without the need for user input. Advanced setup requirements such as certificates and proxies would still need to be user configured.

4. Groovy - Enhancements :

The improved Groovy language support now lets you refactor from code back to scenarios. Twist now supports Groovy version 2.0.2 released on June 28th 2010.

5. Add context parameters to data tables :

In Twist 2.1, we can now add parameters in a context to a data table, thus extending the scope of data driven testing to even the setup and tear down in Twist.