What is Microfocus Extra!?
Microfocus Extra! is a comprehensive test automation solution used by software testers and developers to automate functional, regression, performance, and API testing across web, mobile, desktop, and enterprise applications. It supports a wide range of technologies and frameworks including HTML, JavaScript, Angular, React, .NET, Java, SAP, Siebel, Oracle, and more.
With Extra!, users can easily record user actions to create reusable automated test scripts without coding. The tool includes built-in validation and checkpoint capabilities to verify application functionality and behavior during test execution. Users can enhance the automatically-generated scripts to parameterize and modularize them for maximum reusability, flexibility and maintenance.
Extra! enables continuous testing across the SDLC with capabilities like headless browser testing, cross-browser testing, mobile testing on emulators and real devices, load and performance testing, test scheduling, CI/CD integration, test analytics, and more. It also provides built-in integrations with other Microfocus solutions like ALM Octane and Fortify for end-to-end management.
Some key capabilities and benefits include:
- Supports a wide variety of technologies/frameworks: Web, Mobile, RIA, API, Java, .NET, SAP, Siebel, Oracle, etc.
- Rapid test creation through recording and enhancement features
- Reusable keyword-driven framework for easier test maintenance
- Headless browser testing, mobile testing, cross browser testing
- Integrated functional, regression and performance testing
- Detailed reporting, analytics, and traceability
- Collaboration through built-in version control and project management