Prague-based software testing firm JetBrains told QA Financial it has developed and launched a new development platform that will help to streamline QA testing processes by supporting to design test automation.
The platform allows test automation engineers and developers to generate and evaluate tests during and throughout their development process.
These automated tests can be designed for user interfaces, application programming interfaces and other parts of applications with ease, explained Kirill Skrygan, since January of this year the CEO of JetBrains, which serves a host of banks and financial services firms across Eastern Europe, including Czech Republic’s Komercni Banka and OTP Bank in Hungary.
Skrygan pointed out that automated testing is increasingly a crucial part of any debugging process.
JetBrains’ new platform should facilitate these steps, by making the software production-ready during the actual development process, which will allow companies to roll out their projects faster and with less flaws while it has been tested for security threats.
Skrygan stressed that substantial feedback from customers and other stakeholders helped to shape the final product.
“We have received substantial feedback from our users. They appreciate the concept of a tailored for test automation engineers, recognising the unique skill set required for testing applications,” he noted.
“Another advantage often cited by Aqua users is its support for major languages and frameworks used in test automation,” Skrygan continued.
Additionally, the firm’s Web Inspector feature, which functions as an embedded browser within the IDE, “has been widely appreciated for its convenience as it removes the need for constantly switching to Chrome DevTools,” he added.
Preview launch
Aqua was launched in preview in November 2022. Since then the platform has expanded so it also supports a number of popular frameworks, such as Playwright and Cypress.
An important part of the solution was that it is able to understand and back the most important languages in test automation, Skrygan stressed, as he singled out Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript and SQL.
“Nearly a year and a half ago, we launched the preview version of Aqua. Since then, Aqua has evolved significantly. We’ve added major features like support for Cypress and Playwright. Additionally, Aqua’s support for Selenium makes it a great choice of tool for test automation projects,” he said.
The Web Inspector tool offers users the option to monitor web applications inside the Aqua platform and capture individual web elements for automated tests.
“Using the tool developers can generate unique CSS and Xpath locators for selected elements on the web page to add them to the source code with unique IDs,” Skrygan explained.
When asked to elaborate, he said “this basically means that inspections can go deep into web code.”
Czech market leader
JetBrains, initially called IntelliJ Software, was founded in 2000 in Prague by three Russian software developers, Sergey Dmitriev, Valentin Kipyatkov and Eugene Belyaev. The company’s first product was IntelliJ Renamer, a tool for code refactoring in Java.
The firm experienced rapid growth during its first decade and in 2012, CEO Sergey Dmitriev was replaced by Oleg Stepanov and Maxim Shafirov.
In 2021, newspaper The New York Times stated that unknown parties might have embedded malware in JetBrains’ TeamCity CI/CD software that led to the SolarWinds hack and other widespread security compromises.
In a press release, JetBrains said they had not been contacted by any government or security agency and had not “taken part or been involved in this attack in any way”.
In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the company suspended sales and R&D activities in Russia indefinitely as well as sales in Belarus. JetBrains’ Russian legal entity was liquidated on 21 February 2023.
In January of this year, Kirill Skrygan replaced Max Shafirov as CEO. The firm has been cited as market leader in the QA space in the Czech Republic and across a range of Eastern European markets in recent years.
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