ConformIQ Creator automates test design, significantly enhancing test coverage and efficiency. It seamlessly integrates with existing development processes to provide comprehensive and automated testing solutions.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| ConformIQ Creator | 2.8% |
| OpenText Application Quality Management | 9.4% |
| TestRail | 5.9% |
| Other | 81.9% |
ConformIQ Creator pricing varies based on licensing models and enterprise needs. Users report that the tool offers flexible subscription plans, typically starting at mid-tier levels. Key factors influencing pricing include the number of licenses, usage frequency, and support packages. Free trials and demos are often available to assist in evaluation.
Designed for complex systems, ConformIQ Creator offers a robust approach to test design, ensuring superior test case generation and automated execution. Its architecture supports seamless integration with existing toolchains, accommodating unique testing requirements. By automating the generation of test cases, it reduces manual effort and minimizes errors, enhancing overall testing precision. Known for addressing comprehensive testing needs, it improves collaboration across teams, allowing for improved project timelines.
What are the standout features of ConformIQ Creator?In industries such as automotive and telecommunications, ConformIQ Creator is used to manage complex testing scenarios, ensuring compliant and robust software systems. It allows for adapting to sector-specific standards, facilitating efficient test management amidst intricate IT landscapes.
ConformIQ Creator was previously known as Conformiq Creator, Conformiq Transformer.
Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Daimler, Ericsson
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| QE Manager at Capgemini | 4.0 | I value Conformiq for its automated, optimized test generation and extensive integrations, which significantly boost maintainability. My main concerns are test generation performance on large models and the ineffective reverse engineering of existing test cases. |
| Technical Architect at Hexaware Technologies Limited | 4.0 | Having used Conformiq for six years, I find it invaluable for automating test design, speeding STLC, and improving quality. It integrates well, generating most scripts and ensuring coverage. I'd like more UI widgets and object locator mapping. |
| Sr Software Engineer at IdeaBytes | 4.0 | I use this product for model design, test case generation, and version control, significantly reducing manual effort. It reuses components and converts existing cases, though I'd like improvements in data overwriting and output-as-input functionality. |
We had our test cases in BPT format. However, the creation of duplicate components resulted in significant manual and automation maintenance efforts. The implementation of the concept of model-based testing was thought to reduce that effort.
Within the MBT Tools space, Conformiq has a lot of options for data optimization and path optimization logic. Its keyword-based modeling approach had fit properly with our automation framework.
Conformiq generates a unique and optimized set of test cases. The test cases are optimized for both data and path.
It offers easy maintainability of models - a functional change may only require updating the model at appropriate places (and tool will take care of TC generation) when compared to updating the entire test case suite. It maintains test cases to the current application version and removes test cases for obsolete functionality.
Since the models map to current application version, it acts as a knowledge repository for any future training.
The UI definition of models is based on keywords. With proper integration to the automation framework, in-release/in-sprint automation has been achieved.
The core functionality of the tool is automated test generation of optimized test suite; the tool has extensive list of options for the same. The product's integration with other tools sets it apart. It has integrations with many upstream (for requirements mapping) and downstream (export of test cases to various tools) products. It is like "plug-and-play".
For any customized downstream tool, like our proprietary automation framework, support is provided for custom development. It is has features - Business AD - to use in Agile implementations. The latest version seems to have support for BDD/Gherkin as well, which we have not used much.
Though I understand every tool will have limitations, an effort can be put in to better understand and acknowledge the issues (not every issue is a problem with Conformiq) encountered in real-time implementation, even if there is no solution.
Even though the 4.1 version is a far-improved version from its earlier avatars, the performance of test generation is still an issue on real-time models we have.
The reverse engineering logic, to generate models with existing manual/BPT test cases, did not work for us.
We have been using Conformiq Creator for the past four years and six months.
The output of Conformiq is predictable - it generates the same output for same input and settings again and again. Its integrations with other tools like Rally, ALM (both Import and Export), MS Excel, GitHub work well.
This helped us expand the solution to multiple applications under test, rather than worrying about whether the output is correct.
Performance of test generation process takes a hit, but we have really huge/too many models. We have used other modeling techniques to work around the issue. Also, understanding the way the tool works (ie., internal processes/threading, RAM and processor usage) had helped us create manual processes to work around the issues.
A proof of concept has been completed to schedule/automate the trigger/export test generation; with proper toolset availability, automation framework tweak and further support from Conformiq team, Conformiq can be integrated into DevOps tool chain.
The team is knowledgeable. They were able to answer all our technical queries in relation to the product itself. The team was able to answer questions related to real-time implementation and the process surrounding it most of the times; in other instances, it could have been better approached, if not answered to our satisfaction.
For optimization, we were using another tool, but it was giving only test data combinations and not test cases. There was not much integration with other tools, including any of the automation frameworks.
The reverse engineering option to convert existing BPT/manual test cases into Conformiq models did not result in a usable and scalable solution. Therefore, we had to engineer the models brand new and it took a lot of effort.
Also, our models grew too huge in a short span of time and ran into issues with TC generation. However, the Conformiq team were able to re-engineer the backend logic for faster processing and made a huge improvement.
It was implemented through an in-house process and technical approach definition .
Test Cases can be generated with a local system as the server. However, depending on the number of models and their size, it is better to set up a system with higher RAM and a faster processor and use it as a server.
We use the Conformiq tool as part of the end-to-end automation solution provided by our organization, where right from test design to test execution to reporting, everything is automated.
We automate test design through Conformiq and generate both manual test cases (Excel-based) and automated scripts. Conformiq plays a key role in speeding up the STLC process and improving product quality.
We have developed various custom plugins for our customized Selenium/UFT frameworks.
We have also integrated this product with various test management and requirement management tools like JIRA, ALM, etc.
Conformiq integrates well with various automation tools and auto-generates between 60% and 80% of the automation scripts. This feature has helped us to improve automation coverage and enabled us to run regression tests repetitively.
Conformiq provides easy maintenance for change requests. The tool will generate auto-generate impact analysis data, which can be carried to test automation as well, easing efforts for automation script maintenance.
This product has the ability to integrate with various test management tools and version control tools.
The tool has the ability to integrate with various requirement management, test management, and version control tools. It allows for maintaining traceability throughout the STLC.
Other than generating automation scripts tool implements algorithms to ensure 100% coverage with the optimized test set. This avoids the fear of over-testing/Under testing. Also, graphical representation helps to identify the possible requirement gaps
Reusability of exiting components helps to reduce duplicate efforts and allows to maintain project properly.
There is room for improvement, including the following:
I have been working with Conformiq for the past six years.
I have explored various test design solutions in the market and I prefer Conformiq.
We use an on-premise setup. Setting up the tool is easy, but it is recommended to use a system with a good configuration for better performance results.
We use this product to design the model and generate manual test cases, then export them into the user-required Excel format.
We reuse the existing components and convert them into the design model. We then use the output for further uses in the organization and to further change or make additions to the project.
We also use it for maintaining the version control of the project when multiple resources are required.
This product helps with understanding the design tool for the test case generation without manual writing of test cases in Excel.
It is time-consuming to write the manual test cases, which has now been reduced. It gives us more time to spend on model design. The time spent writing test scripts has also been reduced, as it automatically generates test scripts based on user requirements.
The maintenance of projects in versions from the tool itself is very helpful, as we can skip version control tasks from the command prompt.
We can quickly design the test cases and generate manual test cases, which can be shown at a high level as well.
The ability to reuse existing components is very useful when we work on a project that is already started.
The reverse engineering concept, where I can convert manual test cases into the design-level and then make further use of them in the project, is very helpful.
We are able to convert existing components into other languages based on user requirements. It is very useful to migrate the scripts from one automation tool to another automation tool.
The use of external data in the model, allowing us to use it for test generation and scripts, is another valuable feature.
When modifying the existing model, re-generate test cases and test scripts, it should overwrite the existing data from previous scripts and test cases.
Improvements on the List item widget and Table widget are needed.
I would like to see the output data optionally used as input for the model, as further action in the flow.
It would be helpful to have support for combinatorial action on two different business activity nodes.
The ability to use the result from the Response Message action widget as a variable object for further uses in the test case flow would be useful.
We went to merge conflicting texts based on user request in git version control concepts.
We have been using Conformiq for the past four years.
We did not use another similar solution prior to this one.
We did not evaluate other solutions.
