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ARD 3.4 Release Announcement

By Pavel Sestak
We are excited to announce the latest release of Agile Requirements Designer (ARD), with a number of new features and enhancements that will help you streamline your testing process and achieve greater efficiency. Key New Features · Automation Configuration in ARD Hub: This new feature allows you to store and manage automation configuration layers in the ARD Hub, enabling concurrent user access and real-time synchronization. This streamlines the management of automation configuration and makes it easier to merge changes from multiple users. · Enhanced Performance in Path Optimization: We have improved our path finding algorithm ...
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ARD 3.3 Release Announcement

By Pavel Sestak
We are excited to announce the latest version of Agile Requirements Designer 3.3 ( Download ARD 3.3 ). With this release, we're excited to introduce several new features and enhancements that will help you streamline your testing process and achieve greater efficiency in your software development cycle. Agile Requirements Designer 3.3 comes packed with powerful features that enable you to seamlessly integrate your tools using the API. With our new plugin framework, you can easily connect to your target applications and manage items within them. The plugin framework is highly customizable, allowing you to create new plugins or update existing ones to meet ...
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ARD 3.2.7 Release Announcement

By Pavel Sestak
I am happy to announce the ARD team has recently released Agile Requirements Designer 3.2.7 ( Download ARD 3.2.7 ). ARD 3.2.7 is the cumulative fix release for ARD 3.2 ( View full ARD 3.2 documentation ) version. ARD 3.2.7 contains all the updates from ARD 3.2.5 and ads many more customer enhancement requests, defect fixes and latest security updates. We introduced new ARD example flows and configuration files to show how you may generate automation using our models. We significantly improved usage tracking functionality and exposed data for system administrators in ARD Insights web UI. We allowed Test Data resolutions in more ARD fields. We improved ...
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ARD 3.2.5 GA Announcement

By Pavel Sestak
The ARD team is very excited to announce that ARD 3.2.5 is now generally available! This is the cumulative fix release for ARD 3.2 version. ARD 3.2.5 introduces the Usage Tracking feature, optimization improvements and latest security updates. You can find more details in the release notes . We encourage you to update to the most recent release of ARD so that you always get the latest features, security fixes, and improvements. Check out the resources below for full release notes and download instructions for ARD 3.2.5: Read release notes Download ARD 3.2 ( View installation instructions ) View full ARD 3.2 documentation ...
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ARD 3.2 GA Announcement

By Benjamin.Johnson-Ward
ARD 3.2 GA Announcement We are very excited to announce that ARD 3.2 is now generally available! This release focuses on improved automation, better integration experiences, and enhancements that will give you more flexibility and control within ARD. Some highlights of this release include: BlazeMeter Integration (Scriptless testing automation) SAP Solman support Optimizer improvements New Path Custom Fields Check out the resources below for full release notes and download instructions for ARD 3.2: Read release notes Download ARD 3.2 ( View installation instructions ) View full ARD 3.2 documentation ...
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Upcoming Release: ARD 3.2 Preview

By Ruth Kusterer
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/9305/485014 We’ve heard your requests and feedback, and our product management and development teams have been working diligently to make impactful enhancements and updates to Agile Requirements Designer (ARD). We’re excited to release an integration with BlazeMeter Scriptless Testing, improved integration experiences with popular tools that you use, and enhancements that will give you more flexibility and control within ARD. Join us for an informative update to see what’s new in ARD 3.2! Watch the recording of this recent Webinar by continuous testing expert Ben Johnson Ward: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/9305/48 ...
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Take Your Testing to the Next Level: A Capability Model for Model-based Testing using Agile Requirements Designer by Shamim Ahmed

By Caitlin Lam
Blog by Shamim Ahmed , CTO for DevOps Solutions, Broadcom Model-based testing (or MBT) has recently emerged as a popular approach to transforming and optimizing application testing. MBT offers significant benefits such as improvement of test coverage, reduction of testing effort and improvement of quality. MBT includes a rich variety of techniques and capabilities that may appear overwhelming to initial adopters. My customers often ask me how to get started with the basics of MBT and how to gradually improve their maturity and capabilities. I am not a big fan of “maturity models”, I like “capability models” instead. This capability ...
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No coding experience required with Scriptless Testing!

By Collin Chau
Help your teams drag and drop components to test without manually writing scripts using Scriptless Testing. Part of the BlazeMeter Continuous Testing platform today, testers use Scriptless Testing to remove the need for complex scripting languages or manual technical processes. This dramatically simplifies test automation for Agile development. Read how you can do more just by using Scriptless Testing today . With a library of predefined test actions to construct tests that’s shared-reused to create more complex ones, teams use a test object repository to maintain test components for change. Join your peers for this hands-on webinar ...
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New! Scriptless Testing simplifies Test Automation

By Collin Chau
2 out of 3 IT decision makers agree designing and maintaining for automated tests is painful. Challenges in test creation and execution for regression testing have consistently hamstrung testers that possess extensive business domain knowledge but lack coding skills and automation experience to create better tests. Today, we are announcing NEW! with Scriptless Testing , as part of the BlazeMeter Continuous Testing platform . With drag and drop, reusable components and automatic updates across teams - you can dramatically decrease test creation and maintenance time. Plus - anyone can now construct better, more comprehensive tests - with ...
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API Testing - Model Based Testing Techniques You Should Try Today!

By Matthew Dover
Introduction In this blog post, a single endpoint of the HSBC Branch Locator API will be modelled [1] using Agile Requirements Designer (ARD), a market leading Model Based Testing (MBT) tool. This will allow us to increase the coverage of testing on this API. This API takes in 3 data parameters: latitude and longitude co-ordinates in degrees, and a radius in miles. It returns branch locations and details that exist within the specified radius from the given co-ordinates. The API has the following rules: The longitude and latitude must be United Kingdom (UK) based The radius can be between 1-10 miles The radius must be integer valued. The API ...
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Agile Requirements Designer 3.0 Now Available

By Ruth Kusterer
Agile Requirements Designer (ARD) helps distributed Agile teams to simplify their in-sprint test automation and streamline their Agile release process. On August 30, 2019, we release Agile Requirements Designer ARD 3.0, featuring ARD Hub as the Single Source of Truth for Agile teams, Business Analysts, Testing Centers of Excellence (CoE). With ARD, experts and testers collaborate in real time on requirements design, and share links with which stakeholders can easily review models in their web browsers. ARD 3.0 consists of three components, ARD Studio (the familiar desktop application), ARD Insights (the web interface), and ARD Hub (the central repository). ...
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Webinar: What’s New in Agile Requirements Designer 3.0 (Part 2)

By Ruth Kusterer
What’s New in Agile Requirements Designer 3.0 (Part 2) About this webinar Join Agile Requirements Designer (ARD) expert Mimi Benach in a two-part webinar series to learn how the latest release of ARD has redefined the way Agile teams work and test in-sprint. Discuss the new capabilities of ARD Hub, the model storage mechanism to manage interconnected model hierarchies, share and reuse models, and version models for increased collaboration. See first hand how easy it is to organize collections of models and derive useful insights of model relationships. ARD Hub is the solution to enterprise model scalability. Register for free: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/9305/368537?utm_source=CA+Technologies&utm_medium=brighttalk&utm_campaign=368537 ...
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Webinar: What’s New with Agile Requirements Designer 3.0? (Part 1)

By Ruth Kusterer
About this webinar Join Agile Requirements Designer (ARD) expert Mimi Benach in a two-part webinar series to learn how the latest release of ARD has redefined the way Agile teams work and test in-sprint. Discuss the new capabilities of ARD Hub, the model storage mechanism to manage interconnected model hierarchies, share and reuse models, and version models for increased collaboration. See first hand how easy it is to organize collections of models and derive useful insights of model relationships. ARD Hub is the solution to enterprise model scalability. Register for free : https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/9305 In the first part of this webinar series ...
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Webinar - Automation in Agile Requirements Designer

By Ruth Kusterer
For businesses that need an enterprise-grade implementation of MBT, Agile Requirements Designer (ARD) allows you to generate executable automation scripts from the test cases it generates. From modeling requirements to comprehensive, executable tests in minutes, be empowered to accelerate your test automation today in any language or framework. Join MBT and ARD expert Alex Page as he dives into the foundational concepts and best practices required to configure and align automation scripts when generating test cases from models in ARD. You'll learn: How to create automation configurations to make available standardized automation snippets How to ...
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Webinar - Test Data in Agile Requirements Designer

By Ruth Kusterer
Quality test data is an important part of the overall test design, and it is crucial to producing realistic results. But creating test data requires much manual intervention today and a source of acute pain for many development teams in-sprint, who simply want to test for code the moment it’s created. This is why development teams turn to Agile Requirements Design (ARD) today. By managing test data inside ARD’s model-based test designs, development teams can identify the right data needs and have this matched to each test case early into their Agile development cycle. By integrating test data generation as part of their requirements design, applications are ...
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Webinar - Test Design Management Within ARD Hub

By Ruth Kusterer
From capturing clear requirements used in model-based testing to auto-generating test designs that are optimized for maximum test coverage, development teams do so with Agile Requirements Designer (ARD) today. Key to creating valuable test assets is in facilitating end-end collaboration, starting with a file storage mechanism that’s purpose-built to help developers create and manage multiple projects across dedicated workspaces. Distributed teams rely on ARD Hub, a central repository found within ARD to maintain, share and reuse different versions of a project from one sprint to the next, across the business. Join ARD Product Manager Joshua Taylor as ...
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Agile Requirements Designer: Best Practices to Achieve Value (Part 2)

By Ruth Kusterer
This is a two part webinar series that will benefit new or existing ARD users who want to learn more and unlock the true value of the solution. Join MBT and ARD experts Ralph Jezierski and Steven Borriello on May 9th at 11am ET | 8am PT as they dive into the foundational skills and best practices required to automate the generation of the optimal set of test cases. Achieve value faster through practical in-webinar exercises and real world examples that would be shared in this two part webinar series. Register now: Agile Requirements Designer: Best Practices to Achieve Value (Part 2) In the second part of this webinar series you'll learn: ...
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Agile Requirements Designer: Best Practices to Achieve Value (Part 1)

By Ruth Kusterer
This is a two part webinar series that will benefit new or existing ARD users who want to learn more and unlock the true value of the solution. Join MBT and ARD experts Ralph Jezierski and Steven Borriello on May 2nd at 11am ET | 8am PT as they dive into the foundational skills and best practices required to automate the generation of the optimal set of test cases. Achieve value faster through practical in-webinar exercises and real world examples that would be shared in this two part webinar series. Register now: Agile Requirements Designer: Best Practices to Achieve Value (Part 1) In the first part of this webinar series you'll learn: ...
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Model-based API Testing - Webinar

By Ruth Kusterer
Join MBT expert Ben Johnson Ward as he dives into a fully integrated end-to-end API testing framework/pipeline to rapidly test a live webservice. Using a powerful MBT test generation solution, he will show how to generate executable REST-assured API tests with enriched reporting, as well as manage requirements changes in the application and their impact on testing. You'll learn: Automate test design/creation with Model-based Testing tool Agile Requirements Designer (ARD) Creating REST-assured API tests utilizing ARD and executing with Java How to quickly generate tests for any scenario or coverage goal How to react efficiently to changing requirements to ...
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Visualise, Then Execute: Visual Model-Based Testing

By Ruth Kusterer
Here's a blog about the user journey from learning about model-based testing to using a tool such as ARD to improve development quality and speed: https://www.continuoustesting.com/visualise-then-execute-visual-model-based-testing/ How do you approach test design and planning? Which tools (spreadsheets?) did you try before you started looking into ARD?
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