Which problem does baangt solve?
One of the main problems for today’s companies, who deal with digitalization and online business processes is the fast pace of technology. New devices, new communication channels, new products, new payment methods and changing international rules and guidelines. It’s not enough to deploy a new software into production twice a year. Depending on the industry release cycles are as short as bi-weekly.
All these new versions of software are written by people. People make mistakes. A highly automated system landscape means less labor costs, but it’s usually not possible to test all business processes in all combinations in such short release cycles.
All large companies have test automation tools. The problems with existing solutions are the complexity and the costs. These tools are powerful and come with a hefty price tag, some many thousand USD per year per seat/computer. Because they are pricy and powerful only a handful of people in the organization have access to the tools and can create and maintain automated regression tests. That leads to a bottleneck for efficient and fast tests. New releases go into production without proper tests. Things break, business losses occur – in the reputation and in the income of the organization.
Vendor lock-in
Once a corporation purchased one of the existing solutions, it’s very likely, that they will have to stick with it. After all there’s the investment in software license costs and the training of the employees and the hundreds or thousands of test cases, that were already created. They would have to do all that again AND pay dearly for the next software licenses.
Bugs cost money – a lot!
Each bug/error costs money. Bugs can not be avoided. People make mistakes and in complex business processes it’s simply not possible for a single developer to understand every possible outcome in every connected system. Bugs happen, no matter which test automation strategy and tool-set is used. The better the tooling and test coverage, the earlier bugs can be found. The earlier they are found, the less it costs to fix them.
How does baangt solve this problem?
- baangt is open source and completely free. Every company in the world can download the software, use it, extend it to their needs without paying a single dime
- baangt is simple! Deliberately simple, so that even employees from the business departments can write test cases, preferably together with their requirements.
- baangt is powerful! Despite the simple access to create test cases, baangt provides serious management tools, for instance to integrate regression testing into the CD/CI-Pipeline, preventing errors to reach productive systems.
- baangt increases test coverage! Apart from intelligent approaches to automate test data combinations, baangt helps to increase test coverage by distributing the load on more heads in the organization. It’s not only those few test automation engineers, who can automate test cases. It’s everybody, who can work with Microsoft Excel.
What is baangt?
baangt consists of several key functionalities, that – together – provide a great solution for modern test automation needs:
- Recorder/Importer for Web-Based Test cases
- Excel-Interface for test case definition and test data definition
- Web-Based (onsite or cloud) orchestration of test runs and test cases, including import and export of Excel-Files with test case definitions.
- A powerful execution engine, including parallel executions via Selenium Grid, Zalenium, Appium (for App test cases on mobile) or Selenium Grid V4
- Great reporting. See for each stage and each version, which test cases were successful and which broke, when, how often
- Many tools to deal with grown system landscapes like asynchronous asserts and Canon execution (not even available in many of the expensive test automation solutions)
- A PDF-Comparison engine (Compares reference documents with latest specimen of a test case and provides detailed analysis if the differences, if any).
Baangt provides code-less test automation for WEB and API-Test cases. All you need is Microsoft Excel to define test cases and the free, open source baangt software. baangtDB is also code-less, but will require an engineer to be setup in your local environment.
How does baangt work?
During test case design and local execution the test case designer works locally on Mac, Windows or Ubuntu computer with a spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel. Once the test cases (API, SOAP, Web, oData, etc.) work fine, they’re committed to the regression test engine (baangtDB) where they run either at fixed intervals or triggered by the CD/CI-Pipeline of a stage.
Each component of the system is designed for easy custom extension. Want to integrate with your favorite monitoring tool via API? Simple! Have a fancy (or very old) build-pipeline and need custom adjustments? Simple! Don’t want to do it yourself? We offer (paid) services at affordable prices!
Risk free trial
You can download baangt today and see for yourself, how it works. No risk, no costs, no trial period, no freemium scam. First class documentation of every aspect of the software is publicly available. So is the source code. Even if we cease to exist, the source code would still be there and you’d only need a python developer if you need enhancements.
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