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| Design/Development Tools -------------------- Software Testing and Certification
Certify is the future of test automation. There are no scripts. Now analysts can point and click to document and automate their test cases in one easy step, reducing the time and cost of automation by 60% or more. No scripts means no recording, programming, testing, debugging and – especially – maintenance of scripts. Certify allows you to focus on coverage instead of coding. Certify’s open architecture also provides a cross-platform solution that delivers seamless end-to-end testing across multiple systems, providing a uniform user interface regardless of the underlying technology. You are free to select the best of breed tools for each project without compromising consistency.
Plone is a content management framework (CMF) that sits on top of Zope. It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities. EPSScentral has adopted Plone for much of its Knowledge Network.
ActiveGuide is designed to take performance support beyond text files, simulations and other offline information about processes. ActiveGuide provides automated interactive support with processes and applications. It "understands" the user’s actions and the application state and delivers performance support. ActiveGuide works with web-based applications as an embedded / concurrent guide. The folks at RockeTools are providing a free evaluation to .infoREADER subscribers at http://www.rocketools.com/infoREADER and asking that you provide feedback. EPSScentral encourages all interested readers to do so.
 Context Sensitive Help Menu Integration: The OnDemand Personal Navigator 8.5 platform enables a context sensitive link directly from the help menu (of SAP and PeopleSoft applications). Enhanced Web Based Do It! Mode : A new “back button” has been added to help users navigate through their history. Action Area Resizing: Depressing the [ctrl] key transforms the mouse pointer into a set of cross hairs allowing users to create and position action areas with their mouse. Find and Replace: From the Developer toolbar, authors can invoke a comprehensive “Find and Replace” function allowing them to find and replace text within Modules, Lessons, Topics, Keywords, Glossaries, Infoblocks and Roles. Documentation Screenshot Inclusion: Authors can now override OnDemand's default logic allowing developers to further tailor OnDemand output. Non IIS Search : Developers can now deploy searchable content within non-Microsoft environments (no longer requires use of Internet Information Server). |
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