Overview

XQual delivers a free, modular and distributed test framework allowing to do much more than just testing your products. With XStudio, you can manage the complete life-cycle of your products.

XStudio

The central component of this framework is the so called XStudio software. XStudio is an versatile test management software solution usable with any existing tests. Using XStudio makes management of your assets trivial but above all less costly to maintain. Bugs, slippages and regression are often due to inneficiencies in managing the tests. XStudio helps getting rids of those common issues.

Here is a Quick Overview Presentation of XStudio (including commercial support).

XQual Studio (XStudio) is a FREE 100% graphical and modular in design test management application that handles the complete life-cycle of your QA/testing projects from end to end: users, requirements, specifications, attached documents, development projects (scrum oriented), tests, test plans, test reports, test campaigns.

In addition, XStudio is also a powerful (but easy-to-use) bug-tracking database. Hence, you will be able to manage your defects as in any bug-tracking database but also "link" these defects to your tests and documentation.

Using a MySQL database as principal storage, XStudio allows to schedule or run directly fully-automated or manual test campaigns. Because XStudio can be used with any kind of tests (C/C++, Java, C#, Python, Perl, XUnit, VBScript, JavaScript or any proprietary systems such as AutoIt, Selenium, VisualStudio, TestComplete, Sahi, Ranorex, Squish, TestPartner etc.), anyone from any kind of industry can take advantage of it.

Some launchers are already provided in source code (Java) and in binary form (Jar) ready to be used with XStudio. They are available in the open source section and are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPLv3).

Main features

100% graphical (and tree-based for more flexibility)
Web access (through Java WebStart) served from Tomcat or Apache (no end-user install)
Integrated management of ALL actors involved in the QA/testing project: users, systems under test, requirements, specifications, dev projects tests, testplans, campaigns, test reports, defects
ALL data stored in MySQL (robust & reliable)
UTF-8 compliant (support of any accentuated languages such as french, chinese, arabic, hebrew etc.)
Customization of all documents (testplans, test reports etc.)
History of all test executions
Versioning of requirements, specifications, tests and test cases
Support for automated and manual tests execution
Instant or scheduled test campaigns
Execution on remote computers
Simple and flexible API for launchers configuration/development
Connectors to the most famous bug-tracking systems: Mantis, Bugzilla, Trac
Integrated Bug-Tracking Database
Generation of coverage metrics
Tracking of bugs evolution
Tracking of the progress of the scrum projects (velocity graph automatically generated)
Tracking of user's calendar
Absences and holidays management
Automatic generation of traceability matrix
Complete control on manual tests (pause, skip etc.)

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XAgent

Installing XAgent (a free program running in background) on several hosts on your network will allow you to run your test campaigns on these PCs remotely. XAgent is a standalone client available on Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
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SDK

Uniquely, XStudio provides a simple open-source SDK licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 (LGPLv3) that allows integrating with any tests you already have - or you're planning to develop - whatever the language they are written in. It's pretty simple to integrate your existing tests (even proprietary) within XStudio: you just need to implement (in Java) a class extending the com.xqual.xagent.launcher.CLauncher class in the SDK.

For more details about the complete API, check the documentation section. The SDK is of course included in XStudio but can also be retrieved here.