Twist is a

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and

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solution built by Thoughtworks Studios, the software division of ThoughtWorks. It uses

Behavior Driven Development In software engineering, behavior-driven development (BDD) is an agile software development process that encourages collaboration among developers, quality assurance experts, and customer representatives in a software project. It encourages teams ...

(BDD) and

Test-driven development Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process relying on software requirements being converted to test cases before software is fully developed, and tracking all software development by repeatedly testing the software against al ...

(TDD) for

of the application. It is a part of the Adaptive ALM solution consisting of Twist for Agile testing by ThoughtWorks Studios, Mingle for Agile project management an
Go for Agile release management
Twist is no longer supported by ThoughtWorks.

Features

* Twist allows test specifications to be written in English or any

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supported language. ** Test implementation is done using

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. * Twist's IDE supports manual,

automated Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

and

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testing. * Twist can be used with any Java based driver. It provides support for **

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and Sahi for testing web-based applications ** SWTBot for testing

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/ SWT applications ** Frankenstein for testing Java Swing applications ** Calabash for testing Android and iOS applications * Fast Script Development ** Consolidation of redundant code (refactoring as “Concepts”) ** Type Ahead and Suggestion * Team coding ** Version control, organization, and searching in Confluence ** Shared script libraries ** Tagging (Test/Production, Categories, etc.) with Filters *** Filter scripts based on Tags *** Run groups of tests based on Tags

References

External links

Twist Community
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