froglogic Confident of the Qt Platform's Future
Mar 2nd, 20:26 UTC
Hamburg, Germany—2011-03-01 froglogic announces its continued
support for, and confidence in, the Qt
platform. After making significant investments in Qt and MeeGo, Nokia
recently announced that it will use Windows Phone
as the operating system for its smartphones. As a result many
questions about the future of the Qt Platform have been
raised. froglogic would like to share its take on the situation and on
Qt's future.
Cross-platform software development tools protect software
companies from vendor lock-in and makes it much easier to develop and
support software for multiple operating system. froglogic considers Qt
to be the best toolkit for cross-platform GUI software development in
the world of C++ and believes that Qt's immense value to commercial and
non-commercial developers will ensure that Qt continues to have a
bright future.
froglogic was founded in 2003 by two software engineers who worked
for Trolltech (the original makers of Qt) to fill a gap which existed in
the market back then. At that time there was no really good tool for an
Automated GUI Testing which specifically supported automating GUI
applications based on the Qt cross-platform GUI technology. The
froglogic founders filled the gap by producing the Squish tool, which was first
released in November 2003.
froglogic's Squish has matured over the years (it is now at version
4.0), to become the market-leading GUI testing tool. Squish is used by
more than 1,100 companies world-wide, including Nokia, Intel, Siemens,
General Electrics, Daimler, T-Systems, Shell, and Cadence. These
companies use Squish to test applications that use a wide variety of GUI
technologies such as Java (both AWT/Swing and SWT), native Windows,
Mac OS X Cocoa, Apple iOS, various Web GUI
technologies—and of course, Qt 3 and Qt 4.
Since froglogic's early days, Qt has always played an important role
due to the strong ties to Trolltech and to Qt itself. The Squish for Qt
edition represents about 40% of froglogic's business while users of
Squish for Qt often also use other Squish editions. There is no doubt
that the success and growth of Qt has significantly contributed to
froglogic's own steady growth and success.
"While the Nokia's latest announcements regarding the
change in its smartphone strategy have raised many questions about Qt's
future, we believe that Qt, the strategic GUI platform for thousands of
companies—and for hundreds of thousands of
developers—world-wide, will continue to grow. Nokia recently
confirmed that it is committed to
Qt and continues
to invest in Qt's development and the software engineers who develop
it. New MeeGo and Qt based tablet devices such as WebTab and the upcoming Intel
MeeGo tablet also show that MeeGo—as one of the many
Qt-supported platforms—will continue to evolve."—Harri
Porten, co-CEO of froglogic.
Other Qt users—both commercial and non-commercial have announced
their support for Qt.
"Another assurance of Qt's future is the continued effort
to open up Qt's development under the Open Governance umbrella to allow
contributors from outside Nokia, such as KDE (the `K' Desktop Environment)
and companies like ourselves and other Qt partners, to actively work on
Qt's future on the desktop and on mobile devices. Furthermore, we
continue to experience a growth in the interest in our Squish for Qt
product, for desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms"—Reginald
Stadlbauer, co-CEO of froglogic.
Reginald also highlighted froglogic's continuing commitment to Qt:
"Our upcoming
Squish 4.1 release will include support for QML applications and the MeeGo platform among many other
improvememts in all the Squish editions. We already have major customers
who are using pre-release versions of Squish 4.1 for automating the
GUI tests for their Qt and QML applications on recently released and
forthcoming MeeGo devices."
It is froglogic's view that Qt will continue to prosper on the desktop,
and on mobile and embedded platforms. froglogic itself will continue to
support the large number of Squish for Qt customers, and will keep
investing in the Squish for Qt edition—just the same as for all
the other Squish editions—to ensure that Squish customers can
continue to test their applications built with existing Qt versions and
with future Qt versions as they become available.
About Squish
Squish
is the leading functional, cross-platform GUI and regression testing
tool that can test applications based on a variety of GUI technologies,
including Nokia's Qt Software Development Frameworks, Java SWT/Eclipse
RCP, Java AWT/Swing, native Windows MFC and .NET, Mac OS X Carbon/Cocoa,
iOS CocoaTouch, and Web/HTML/AJAX. Squish stands out from other GUI
testing tools by giving test engineers the freedom to record and write
tests using familiar scripting languages such as JavaScript, Perl,
Python, and Tcl. Furthermore, Squish provides extremely tight
integration with the specific GUI technologies it supports. This gives
testers unprecedented access to the internals of the applications they
are testing (to data items, controls, and widgets, etc.), and also leads
to the production of very robust and stable GUI tests.
Squish itself, and all the tests created with it, are completely
cross-platform, and work on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and
embedded Linux.
If you are interested in evaluating or purchasing Squish, please contact sales@froglogic.com or visit
www.froglogic.com/squish.
About froglogic
froglogic GmbH is a software company based in Hamburg, Germany. Their
flagship product is Squish, the market-leading automated testing tool
for GUI applications. More about froglogic is at http://www.froglogic.com.
"froglogic" and "Squish" are registered trademarks of froglogic GmbH.
All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
(Submitted by Reginald Stadlbauer of froglogic)
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