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Overview

Xray Test Case Designer is a revolutionary test design optimization tool that will increase the effectiveness of your testing

It is used by teams in the early stages of the testing processes (and by teams when they’re creating scenario-based requirements). Benefitting from Intelligent Augmentation algorithms, Xray Test Case Designer test sets have been repeatedly proven to find more defects (and find them more efficiently) than hand-selected test sets. 


To do so, it carefully constructs combinations of test conditions to achieve as much coverage as possible in as few tests as possible using applied statistics-based optimization methods that have been refined over more than 40 years.


This is the core feature of Xray Test Case Designer, and to achieve that it focuses on these areas:

  • Systematically avoiding wasteful repetition.

  • Systematically covering not only all user-specified requirements, but also 100% of all of the application’s critical interactions.

  • doing so in the lowest mathematically possible number of tests.


With Xray Test Case Designer, you’ll test much faster. You’ll also achieve objectively much better testing. Let’s begin by discussing three key ways Xray Test Case Designer will save you and your colleagues time before we explain how scenarios you’ll generate using the tool are far more thorough than the ones selected by hand.


Design Faster

Generate test models in seconds at the push of a button

Generating tests models in Xray Test Case Designer is a fundamentally different process than selecting and documenting individual tests by hand, one by one. Generating optimized scenarios using Xray Test Case Designer requires that a thoughtful designer starts by identifying inputs and variation ideas and entering those into the tool.

This process might seem strange at first, but typically doesn’t take long to get used to and it quickly leads to enormous speed and thoroughness improvements. Once you’ve identified your system variation ideas, you’ll be able to generate entire sets of extremely thorough and extremely efficient scenarios in seconds and adjust them as necessary.


Approve Faster

Clearly communicate testing coverage for faster approvals


Each time you generate a set of scenarios, Xray Test Case Designer automatically creates insightful interaction coverage reports that make it clear exactly what (and what is not) covered after any scenario you choose. These visualizations facilitate clear and efficient communication between stakeholders. With Xray Test Case Designer’s coverage graphs in hand, you will immediately have clear, actionable, and fact-based answers to the questions posed above and the related questions of “How many tests are enough?”


Automate Faster

Quickly transform optimized scenarios into automated tests

If a large percentage of your automated tests today are individually written using hard-coded variables, the SDET’s, Developers, and/or automation engineers responsible for scripting and maintaining those would love our tool.

Xray Test Case Designer enables accelerated, optimized in-sprint automation because you can:

  • Rapidly create clear, consistent steps that leverage Behavior Driven Development principles – the largest benefit is the one-to-many relationship between Xray Test Case Designer scripts and the data scenarios.
  • Export one Scenario block into multiple skeletal scripts based on the language of your choosing.
  • Maintain and reuse the script components much faster thanks to the model-based approach.




Eliminate wasteful redundancy

Stop hand-selecting redundant tests.

The most common type of wasteful repetition is that certain system paths and certain combinations of test inputs get tested again and again in test after test.
Based on our experience analyzing thousands of hand-selected test sets, even when those sets achieve “requirements coverage,” they consistently fail to thoroughly test critical system interactions.

Eliminate Gaps


Wasteful repetition is a much larger problem than most teams realize because selecting scenarios by hand also inevitably leaves important coverage gaps. A “foreign” transaction type gets tested. An “extra-large” transaction size gets tested. But those two ideas do not get tested together.

Xray Test Case Designer uses sophisticated test generation algorithms powered by Intelligent Augmentation to systematically eliminate these coverage gaps. Whether a system under test has 50 critical interactions or 50,000 critical interactions, Xray Test Case Designer will keep track of 100% of them and ensure your tests cover all of them (and do so in the fewest possible scenarios).

Maximize variation and thoroughness


The majority of software defects are triggered by simple interactions within a system.

Every test you generate with Xray Test Case Designer is optimized to achieve maximum coverage, allowing teams to achieve greater coverage in fewer overall tests.

Xray Test Case Designer will guarantee that 100% of those system interactions are covered in as few tests as possible.

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Access Test Case Designer

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