Integrated test tools and an IDE for Testers

Suggested features / capabilities

• testcases
• scripted instructions
• coded instructions
• recording
• discovery/inspection
• reporting
• bug tracking
• test runs / test suite
• import existing (similar) test cases
• CI integration
• debugging
• backed by a version control system
• IDE autocompletion
• multiple ways to present stuff - visual, text, ...
• auto-suggest of test ideas e.g. for security tests taken from owasp.org

Who are the target users:

• Powerusers?
• Non-technical testers

Opensource, reducing barriers to entry

Hover over capability to see the UI of the app at each step of the test case

• See HTML Code Sniffer for an example of good UI that indicates where problems are visually displayed. http://squizlabs.github.com/HTML_CodeSniffer/

Visual Components - drag and drop to create test cases - see the Visual Studio Workflow tool

RubyMine recommended as a great IDE for Ruby code and writing Cucumber tests Cubittest - front end for Selenium has visual presentation Encrunch? a tool in the latest visual studio beta that runs tests all the time in memory without needing to save them