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Senior Programmer at a tech services company

It has the ability to take a snapshot of a form, and the controls on that...

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Also Known As		AscentialTest
Overview
Overview	Implement and manage every aspect of your testing process, providing a structured approach to testing at project and corporate levels.	AscentialTest™ by Zeenyx Software is an enterprise level Test Management System that encompasses Test Planning, Development, Data Management, Execution and Defect Tracking for applications running on Windows, the web, java, dotNet, terminals and PowerBuilder. This “next generation” testing solution allows users to build robust automated and manual tests from reusable components created by its powerful object recognition engine without recording or scripting. Our patented ‘snapshot’ technology generates graphical representations of the application under test which allows users to build ‘Steps’ by dragging and dropping objects in a visual test editor. Reusable Steps are combined to form a multitude of automated and manual tests that are easy to create and maintain. With AscentialTest, companies realize a dramatic reduction in test creation and maintenance times, resulting in increased productivity and lower costs.
Sample Customers
Sample Customers	Abraxas Informatik AG, AGCO GmbH, Beyond Trust, Bluebox, Bridgewater, Canon, Capita, Criminal Records Bureau, Euronext - NYSE Group, Eurostar International Ltd, EurotaxGlass, Fujitsu-Siemens, Gemini Observatory, NYSE Euronext, NWIPT, OCLC, Olea Medical, Watertek, Xerox Corporation, Xtrakter Ltd, Yodel - HDNL, Yoodoo	TJX Companies, Nuance Communications, Ericsson Inc., Transatlantic Reinsurance Company, Accenture, Nutrition Coordinating Center, Univ. of MN, iConectiv, Fortress Software, and LMP Corp.

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Valuable Features

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Michael Thompson
Principal Quality Management Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor
Zeenyx AscentialTest has a great number of features but the most valuable to me are the ease with which capturing snapshots to create my app object library is one of my favorites. Many of our...
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Neal Burnham
Sr. QA Engineer at a tech vendor
The application under test gets flattened out with the snapshots and "pathing" the elements is a natural activity, leading to ease of use with the step development. For example, once a browser test...
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LokeshKumar
Managing Director at MatryxSoft Tech
Zeenyx AscentialTest ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/products/zeenyx-ascentialtest ) has unique features that are unlike other automation tools. Being a QA professional, here is what I like...
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Dheeraj K
Software Engineering Senior Analyst at a tech vendor
Reusability of the steps was something that we (our team members) found the most valuable. That helped in saving a lot of time we spend on developing our tests.
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FFox
Senior Test Engineer at The American Hospital Association
It's easy to create tests because you just drag and drop objects instead of writing code.
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Gordon Weil
IT Supervisor at a university
Most visual components can be defined by simple drag and drop operations. Reusing the defined objects is intuitive. For more complicated components, Identifying windows and window components is...
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Karl O' Toole
Systems Manager at a renewables & environment company
* Excellent Support for PowerBuilder Applications. * Excellent Test Result Tracking and Test Result Reporting. * Re-usability of steps user defined parts. * Flexible Object recognition and snapshot...
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reviewer593523
Senior Programmer at a tech services company
Our web site is dynamically generated to each user, so much so that the only testing solution we found was AscentialTest. The unique ability to take a snapshot of a form, have controls on that page...
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Room For Improvement

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Michael Thompson
Principal Quality Management Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor
Zeenyx has been working on a feature for AscentialTest that will allow our non-automation people (business users, managers, etc.) access to a portal. This portal can be used by non-licensed users...
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Neal Burnham
Sr. QA Engineer at a tech vendor
Limitations are found to be primarily in the ux of the tool; for example when in doubt one often right clicks in an unfamiliar product to get unstuck, and AscentialTest lacks some of these...
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LokeshKumar
Managing Director at MatryxSoft Tech
An option for the test set and plan results to be mailed out would help the reports to be circulated to the concerned people in the testing line.
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Dheeraj K
Software Engineering Senior Analyst at a tech vendor
It would be better if the support for Web Tables and Siebel Tables are readily available and made more simpler as they are encountered quite often while automating the apps.
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Gordon Weil
IT Supervisor at a university
Classes are not as object-oriented as I would like, but I am a programmer and not QA so I expect a lot. The interface has a lot of features and took a while for me to master, although I have to say...
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FFox
Senior Test Engineer at The American Hospital Association
It would be great if AscentialTest supported the license server being in the cloud.
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reviewer593523
Senior Programmer at a tech services company
I would like to see a debugger ( https://www.itcentralstation.com/categories/debugging ) added.
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Karl O' Toole
Systems Manager at a renewables & environment company
The ability to copy internal tables would be nice.
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Deployment Issues

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Michael Thompson
Principal Quality Management Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor
AscentialTest is a local install license. Since we use a great deal of virtual test machines, deploying the install to our machines can be time-consuming. You can install AscentialTest as a full...
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LokeshKumar
Managing Director at MatryxSoft Tech
Deployment is straightforward; just an installer. Like regular software, follow the instructions to install. After that, the installation license has to be copied to the installation path of the...
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Gordon Weil
IT Supervisor at a university
Installation is straightforward. I struggled a little setting up the license initially but once I got it right it has been easy to deploy to new machines. On some computers I have a problem with a...
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reviewer593523
Senior Programmer at a tech services company
We have not encountered any deployment issues.
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Dheeraj K
Software Engineering Senior Analyst at a tech vendor
We did not find any issues whatsoever with the deployment of AT on our Windows XP machines and later in Windows 7 as well. The deployment was indeed an hassle-free experience.
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Stability Issues

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LokeshKumar
Managing Director at MatryxSoft Tech
We are a large group of testers working with the SVN feature of the product. I did observe a couple of crashes during SVN merge, which wasn't reproducible in the beginning. It occurred once in a...
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Michael Thompson
Principal Quality Management Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor
Being an automation tool, it seems as though Zeenyx can be very processor intensive while it executes tests. I think that many of the issues we have are the fault of our own network setup but...
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Gordon Weil
IT Supervisor at a university
I have managed to crash the program a few times but have never lost any work. But this is rare and I don't consider stability a concern with AscentialTest.
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Dheeraj K
Software Engineering Senior Analyst at a tech vendor
The tool is pretty stable and we never encountered any stability issues with the new version of the application.
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Karl O' Toole
Systems Manager at a renewables & environment company
No issues.
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reviewer593523
Senior Programmer at a tech services company
We have not encountered any stability issues.
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Scalability Issues

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Michael Thompson
Principal Quality Management Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor
We currently have groups with over 15 testers on the automation team that share a Zeenyx project. The product does have limitations on how certain project files are locked (checked-out). You may...
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LokeshKumar
Managing Director at MatryxSoft Tech
We did execute a regression suite of 2300 test cases, with TestSet feature and Host Target model. We didn't notice any issues during our execution of the same. However, we did observe that aborting...
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Gordon Weil
IT Supervisor at a university
Scalability is not a issue for us. We have a single license and deploy it on various computers or multi-boot machines to test different operating systems and setups.
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reviewer593523
Senior Programmer at a tech services company
We have not encountered any scalability issues.
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Dheeraj K
Software Engineering Senior Analyst at a tech vendor
With respect to scalability also AT is a reliable option. We had generated a Regression Suite of more than 600 Test Cases and we didnt notice any issues during the execution of the same.
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Karl O' Toole
Systems Manager at a renewables & environment company
No issues.
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Customer Service

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Michael Thompson
Principal Quality Management Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor
I don't typically deal with any customer service issues related to Zeenyx AscentialTest. Any dealing I have with Zeenyx is done through their technical support group and they are more than happy to...
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LokeshKumar
Managing Director at MatryxSoft Tech
Customer service is excellent; very helpful in addressing the issues and never hesitant in accepting the issues from their end; very responsive and quick to provide assistance. Almost all of them...
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reviewer593523
Senior Programmer at a tech services company
It is the best support I have ever worked with.
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Dheeraj K
Software Engineering Senior Analyst at a tech vendor
Zeenyx team provides a wonderful customer support for any kind of issues we face and they worked along with us and provided solutions as early as possible too.
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Karl O' Toole
Systems Manager at a renewables & environment company
I am a 30+ year IT professional and the level of support I have gotten has been unparalleled. A special thanks to Brian Le Suer who has hand held myself and my team through the whole regression...
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Gordon Weil
IT Supervisor at a university
Customer service is excellent. I have always gotten a quick response and my questions are answered thoroughly. Almost all of my customer service and technical support has been through the CEO.
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FFox
Senior Test Engineer at The American Hospital Association
Excellent.
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Technical Support

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LokeshKumar
Managing Director at MatryxSoft Tech
Technical support is also excellent; highly technical, understandable, helpful, thorough, great at follow up, always welcome feedback and ready to incorporate new features into the next version. I...
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Michael Thompson
Principal Quality Management Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor
I have been working with different vendors in my role, I can say without hesitation that the Zeenyx Support Staff are the best group I've worked with. Typically, they have an answer to our question...
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reviewer593523
Senior Programmer at a tech services company
It is the best technical support I have ever worked with.
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Gordon Weil
IT Supervisor at a university
Support is fantastic. Patient, helpful, thorough, great at follow-up, willing to incorporate new features into the next version. I have never encountered technical support as good as Zeenyx.
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Dheeraj K
Software Engineering Senior Analyst at a tech vendor
Zeenyx has got a quality tech support team who are always there to help you out. Especially, their support to find out a solution for a complicated scroll table issue in Siebel was outstanding.
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Karl O' Toole
Systems Manager at a renewables & environment company
Excellent. All issues have always gotten resolved and the response time from all Ascential teams has been seamless.
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FFox
Senior Test Engineer at The American Hospital Association
Excellent!
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Alternate Solutions

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LokeshKumar
Managing Director at MatryxSoft Tech
I am not sure which solutions that were considered other than Silk Test support. I heard from my client that it was not feasible to continue with Silk Test classic agent support for their...
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Michael Thompson
Principal Quality Management Analyst at a wholesaler/distributor
The decision to move to Zeenyx AscentialTest was done prior to my arriving at this company. I have been told there was no other evaluation done.
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FFox
Senior Test Engineer at The American Hospital Association
Yes. See list above.
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Dheeraj K
Software Engineering Senior Analyst at a tech vendor
Yes, we did evaluate some other options like Routine Boat, EggPlant etc., but we were unable to get a satisfactory solution. Finally we ended upon AscentialTest which proved very helpful.
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Gordon Weil
IT Supervisor at a university
I evaluated other automation options primarily through on-line information, speaking with technical support, and price. I did attempt to work with open-source test automation and did not find...
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Karl O' Toole
Systems Manager at a renewables & environment company
Yes. We had looked a a HP solution but were not comfortable with the support they would seem to offer for PowerBuilder.
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