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mgroen2
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9 years ago

General discussion: Should Keyword driven testing capabilities be upgraded?

Hi,   this is a general statement to my fellow test, and QA engineers, and I would like to hear everyone's opinion about it:   I am a typical validation engineer, primary focused on the funti...
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Marsha_R
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9 years ago

First of all, I think, it is all a matter of defining the roadmap of TC, combined with pre-defined mechanism which should be applied to all feature requests.

 

Wow, no.  It is not our job to define the roadmap for TC, nor to tell SmartBear how to manage it.   However, if some company did work that way, it still wouldn't guarantee you that you would get exactly the features you want.

 

But could be very usefull if there is a library of available script extensions created by other users (like you created the Excel script extensions)...

 

Script library is here:  https://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/9010/

 

 

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    mgroen2
    Super Contributor
    9 years ago

    Wow, no.  It is not our job to define the roadmap for TC, nor to tell SmartBear how to manage it.   However, if some company did work that way, it still wouldn't guarantee you that you would get exactly the features you want.

     

    I am not saying it's our job to define roadmap. It should be SmartBears management who defines the roadmap. However, I think feedback from the users (functional test engineers, technical test engineers, validation engineers, etc, etc.) is/should be a very important input variable, in defining the roadmap. Don't you think Marsha_R ?

     

     

    Script library is here:  https://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/9010/

     

    Thanks! Marsha_R

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      Marsha_R
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      9 years ago

      I've seen you post in the Feature Requests forum, but maybe you aren't clear about how that works.  Here's an example from one of your posts.  You entered it on the forum, it got enough kudos to get some attention, and it was selected for development.  We already have input.

       

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        mgroen2
        Super Contributor
        9 years ago

        Marsha_R Yes I have posted multiple Feature Requests on the forum, and 1 of them is selected for development. Others are in the list of "new ideas", and can be voted for by others. Good system in theory, although I have questions on the amount of ideas which have assigned a status. There are about 200 ideas in total and only small percentage have a status other than New idea.... Some ideas are over 1.5 years old and still have status "New Idea"!? How much time does it take for a new idea to get defined a status (Selected for Development, Selected for discussion)?