froglogic Announces Educational Edition of GUI Testing Tool Squish

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Tuesday, September 5, 2006; 07:10 AM

froglogic GmbH announced an educational edition of Squish. This special and highly discounted edition targets universities and other educational institutions who want to utilize Squish for educational purposes.

Squish is a professional cross-platform functional GUI testing tool. It supports testing applications based on the following GUI technologies:

• Trolltech's Qt
• Tcl/Tk
• HTML/Ajax/Web 2.0 in a variety of web browsers
• Four J's Genero clients (GDC and GWC)
• XView

Squish works on different platforms such as Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X and embedded Linux.

Squish offers a versatile testing framework with a choice of popular test scripting languages (Python, JavaScript and Tcl) extended by test-specific functions, open interfaces, add-ons, integrations into test management systems, a powerful IDE aiding the creation and debugging of tests and a set of command line tools facilitating fully automated test runs.

"We see quality assurance as a vital part of todays software development process. To allow students to also gain practical experience with functional GUI testing, we support this by offering an educational edition of Squish", said Harri Porten, co-founder and co-CEO at froglogic.