TwistTM is a next-generation collaborative functional testing platform for software teams. It provides a rich environment for authoring, executing, and maintaining tests.
Twist is designed to be used by everyone on a development team: subject matter experts, testers, and developers making everyone accountable for software quality.
Twist is based on the simple idea that business people and testing professionals should collaborate to build test suites of lasting business value. Accordingly, it helps business people express software requirements as executable tests, while using the language of their domain. And it comes with powerful editor features like refactoring, so that testing professionals can preserve business intent and evolve lasting test assets.
A Powerful Integrated Development Environment for Testing
Twist provides testing professionals with an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to tame test complexity and increase productivity.
Dynamically organize test suites in various ways to execute them in several contexts (e.g. smoke, regression and performance).
Locate and read individual tests from even a large test library.
Powerful editor features: rename, facility to extract domain concepts etc.
Unlike traditional testing tools, Twist is designed to be used by everyone on a project team - business experts, testing professionals, and developers. This makes everyone on a project (and not just the testers) responsible for the software’s quality.
Implemented on the Eclipse platform as a collection of plug-ins, Twist uses the popular Selenium engine. It incorporates many lessons learned from ThoughtWorks' 14+ years of project delivery experience. We will be releasing Twist later in 2008.
