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.

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).

XStudio

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, documents, projects (scrum oriented), tests, test plans, test reports and 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, specifications, requirements, documents and products.

XStudio is supporting MySQL or Oracle database server and allows running (or scheduling) 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 QTP, AutoIt, Selenium, VisualStudio, TestComplete, Sahi, Ranorex, Squish, TestPartner, JMeter 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).

XAgent/XSubAgent

XAgent is included within the XStudio package and can be run in background on several hosts on your network so that you can run your test campaigns on these computers remotely. XSubAgent is a special agent to be used with the proxy launcher. It allows running distributed tests on complex environments requiring simultaneous and heterogeneous tests execution. The agents are standalone clients available on Windows, Linux and MacOSX. They can also be deployed automatically from a server.
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XContinuousIntegration

XcontinuousIntegration is included within the XStudio package.
This is a command line tool allowing to automatically trigger creation and execution of test campaigns (i.e. when a new build has been compiled if you're using a continuous integration system).

SDK/APIs

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.

Documents and reporting features

Export/Generation XML Reports
Generation HTML printable Reports
SUTs coverage
SUTs results
Requirements coverage/results
Specification coverage/results
History of all test executions
Campaign coverage/results
Trends campaign sessions
Defect metrics per status/per user trends
Defect submition rate vs resolution rate trend
Graph of dependencies between tests
Tracking of test authoring/implementation
Tracking of bugs status (submition rate vs resolution rate)
Tracking of scrum projects (velocity graph automatically generated)
Tracking of user's calendar/absences and holidays management
Real-time status on on-going test campaigns as they are running
Monitoring of resources during testing
Generation of coverage metrics on any sub-domains of requirements, specifications and tests
Automatic generation of traceability matrix

Main features

FREE
100% graphical (and tree-based for more flexibility)
Web access (through Java WebStart) served from Tomcat or Apache (no end-user install)
Personal Dashboard
Integrated management of ALL actors involved in the QA/testing project: users, systems under test, requirements, specifications, projects tests, basic test procedures, stuctured test procedures, test campaigns, test reports, defects
Document sharing (including versioning and locking capabilities)
User profile customization (rights management)
User groups/teams (access to specific projecs)
Customization of all generated documents (testplans, test reports etc.)
Custom fields (plugin)
ALL data stored in MySQL or Oracle
Support for automated and manual tests execution
3 different launchers to execute manual tests
30+ different launchers to execute automated tests (incl. QTP, Selenium, Jmeter, Sahi, Ranorex, SilkTest, TestComplete, soapUI,webui, TestPartner, AutoIt, Squish, SQL, Perl, TCL, VisualStudio, Beanshell, JUnit, Java, Nunit, xUnit.net, pyUnit, Python, TestNG, Marathon, Exe, Bat, Shell, etc.)
Automatic import of tests in campaign (based on SUT/requirements)
Automatic ordering of tests in campaign based on dependencies and/or priorities
Automatic generation of specifications from requirements (1-1) and tests from specifications (1-1)
Automatic merge of several campaign session for consolidation
Automatic generation of traceability matrix
Import Requirements, Specifications and Tests from CSV/XML
Tools to import from QC or Excel
Connectors to the most famous bug-tracking systems (Generic, JIRA, Trac, Bugzilla, Mantis)
Connectors to third-party requirements management systems (Generic, JIRA)
Connectors to any Continuous Integration environment including Bamboo
Workflow on requirements, specifications, test authoring, test implementation status and defects
Attachments on requirements, specifications, tests, test cases, defects, folders/container
Versioning and locking mechanism on attachments
Versioning and change tracking on requirements, specifications, tests, test cases and defects
Scheduling test campaigns execution
Tracing of results in real-time during execution
Real-time execution graph stored
Execution of the tests on a remote computer
Execution of the tests on several agents simultaneously (duplication)
Execution of the tests on N independent threads on each agent
SNMP Monitoring of resources (CPU, RAM, Storage…) during testing (plugin)
Basic rules defining execution behaviour
Mixed test campaigns allowing to execute in an ordered sequence tests of different kind
Powerful search engine
Embedded spell-checker
Dependencies between tests
Test case parametrization (including pairwise algorithm)
Keyword/attribute filtering
UTF-8 compliant (support of any accentuated languages such as french, chinese, arabic, hebrew etc.)
Copy of entire folders of requirements, specifications, tests, campaigns and defects
Simple and flexible open source SDK for launchers configuration/development
Merging and consolidation of results