Testicide

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics, i.e., it always increases.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

TESTICIDE (Tester’s Pesticide) is a cloud based open source platform for test automation designed to test web applications, TESTICIDE will greatly minimize the test authoring efforts and will enable any user, even those with ​No​ programming skills to easily use it. It will achieve that by providing a rich ​Toolbox​ that contains reusable test steps that the user will simply drag and drop to form his new test scenarios; test cases. Additionally, it will increase the readability of the test cases by providing a simple easy to use ​human readable​ Domain Specific Language​ that follows the Gherkin style and thus involving the customer in the whole software development life cycle.

TESTICIDE will provide more flexibility to its users by enabling each user to enrich his own toolbox by creating his own specific test steps, and adding those new steps to the toolbox so that he/she can use those new steps in all upcoming projects. It will also allow the user to form a whole test scenario (more than one step) and add it as a whole to the toolbox so that he/she can directly drag and drop this scenario to be used directly later in other projects.