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Axe Test Automation Platform

Odin Technology are pleased to announce the release of Axe 2.1, our flagship test automation platform. This release has had a feature focus on closer integration with the HP toolset but introduces Selenium and Watir to our supported tools list. Also, significantly it introduces support for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Testing features, specifically Coded UI Tests. The significant new features in the Axe 2.1 release include:

HP Quality Center integration improvements:

•    Improved Axe Manager User Interface
•    New Axe Manager command line interface
•    Upload Tests to QC - ability to populate QC design steps with Axe generated test documentation
•    Upload Scripts to QC - ability to upload Axe generated QTP scripts into Quality Center
•    Execute Axe generated scripts in the QC environment
•    Improved test result content uploaded into Quality Center
•    Maintain Axe project assets under QC Test Resources module

HP QuickTest Pro improvements:

•    Improved support for the QTP object repositories, XML exporting is handled automatically
•    Improved support for extending test projects with custom function libraries
•    Axe generated QTP scripts now include full resource associations
•    Action map improvements for VB and Powerbuilder objects

Tool Integrations - Technology previews included for:

•    Visual Studio 2010 RC - Coded UI Tests (C#)
•    Open source test tool Selenium (Ruby and C#)
•    Open source test tool Watir

General:

•    Axe browser based output is now supported on IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Includes documentation, results and object statistics
•    Axe now uses default browser association to open browser based content