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The Practitest Newsletter Automation Edition. Featuring: Practitest's automation plugin, recent blog posts on coordinating auotmated & manuial test management, information on new features, a customer success story and a recap of recent events.
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The PractiTest Newsletter; Automation Edition

Automate You Tests with PractiTest's Automation Support
Introducing the xBot Automation Agent

Regardless if you use Selenium, QTP, or even home-brewed scripts, automation is more and more a part of everyday QA life.  The problem is, that in order to make proper use of automation you need to manage it and integrate it into your overall testing process.

After getting a number of requests from users, to expand PractiTest’s functionality to managing automated tests, we started searching for the best possible solution. Basically we wanted to come up with an approach that would allow users to: MORE>

New PractiTest Features that Make Your Life a lot Easier

This is a round-up of some cool new PractiTest features. Among them:
A Private Dashboard where each user can define graphs and information they want to see.
Ability to Print Tests, Issues and Requirements individually or by selecting a number of them straight from the views and forms.
Expanded Support for Exports of specific custom views from all modules. 
Users Can Now See Test Library Attachments as part of the test instances.
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Customer Story

As a leading commuincations equipment vendor, Radwin has a special Verification Unit that provides the final seal of approval for each product, version or component produced by the company.   The Verification Unit conducts end-to-end testing, including various product environments and customer simulations, creating complex new testing scenerios for every new feature,regularly topping a thousand for each version.  
When Kfir Hemed became head of the unit a year and a half ago, he realized the advanced test management solution they were using was very expensive, lacked license flexibility and strained server resources; as a result work was being seriously hampered. MORE>
Joel's Blog

Coordinating Automated & Manual Test Management

From the QA Intelligence Blog by Joel  Montvelisky

 Two weeks ago I published a blog called Manual and automated tests together are challenging, which got a large number of replies and comments. To summarize the post, it talked about the fact that some QA teams with automation in place, still run part of their automatic test cases manually.

WHY do they do this?  Some of the reasons I got were that (1) they like running some of their tests manually as well since they are “really important”, (2) that automation cannot be trusted 100%, (3) there is no clear definition or knowledge of what is exactly automated, and (4) they run test manually in order to update their test management system with the results (of their automation) and be able to generate complete and comprehensive reports for their management. MORE>
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