Feature List

Twister available features:

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• username/password access
• user configurable ( test cases repository path, email list, database details .. )
• multitenancy execution
• define group of tests as suites
• define the groups of tests using simple operation drag&drop
• define a file as been pre-requisite ( could be an init script or a script that is mandatory for the rest of the scripts within that suite )
• multiple suites can be defined; every suite can target a separate test bed
• a suite can be defined inside another suite
• edit the test cases using an embedded editor with syntax highlight or using an external editor. The external editor is user defined
• the test cases can contain sections to define the title and the description
• live monitoring of the execution
• control execution status ( start/pause/resume/stop execution )
• display in real time the CLI ouput, summary information with the results and debug information
• possibility to search through the logs
• possibility to save the output logs locally
• user can mark some scripts to be skipped
• plugins mechanism
• reporting system
• distributed execution; execution of a single central engine instance and multiple instances for execution processes
• can execute Pythyon/TCL/Perl scripts
• support for record and play tools Sikuli, Selenium and TestComplete
• can be started/controlled from command line ( for batch execution )
• results recorded in database
• configurable email list with people that gets the execution summary when testing is complete
• read and pass parameters to a test for execution
• support for flexible database schema; it is user defined and configured in Twister using an XML file
• uses XML-RPC to communicate with GUI so the GUI can be completely changed