The past month has been very special for us. We delivered Sahi Pro to our customers, and without even publishing about it, we got many inquiries about Sahi Pro. This was something we had not expected, but would like more of.
Given the number of support queries coming in, we had to scale to better serve our customers. So Boopathi M joins our team as a support engineer. With a background in programming and teaching mathematics online, we look forward to utilizing his tutoring capabilities to solve technical issues in Sahi for our customers.
We also managed to have a presence in Java One, thanks to PushToTest's generous offer to all its partners to show case themselves. Given that Sahi has started playing a good role in TestMaker's web automation part, this turned out to be a good point of synergy.
I (Narayan) also participated as one of the panelists in the Birds Of a Feather session on open source testing tools, thanks again to Frank, CEO of PushToTest. (It is amazing what PushToTest is doing to promote open source products. If ThoughtWorks is the breeding ground for open source projects, I would say PushToTest is one of the few companies that helps them bootstrap and become commercially viable.) We realized Sahi is almost unheard of in the Java developer community! So we are coming up with ways to rectify that. If you have suggestions, do let us know.
This month was also great because we got lots and lots of praise for Sahi (read some testimonials). We had 4 instances of Sahi users reporting that they shifted from QTP to Sahi because QTP had problems identifying some web elements, which Sahi could easily identify. Some of them also had problems on QTP's Windows 7 support.
Selenium continues to annoy us with its presence. We again had 3 different discussions with users who said "We find Sahi to be much easier to use but developers/management (in the US) have heard only of Selenium." A stackoverflow question has considerably undermined Sahi's capabilities and slandered DP, one of Sahi's old and staunch supporters. It was frustrating to know we can't do much about it. Equally unhelpful is the fact that we will not be able to participate in GTAC 2010 because "the committee reviewed each application with special attention towards contributions to the professional community, among other aspects. We regret to inform you that you have not been short-listed to attend this year's conference." We would have loved some discussion with the WebDriver guys.
Our website was hacked twice last month and if you find google search results showing weird titles for Sahi searches, please let us know on the forums or email us.
We have started a facebook page for Sahi, so please do spread the word.
We now have integrations with Test Management tools like XQual, Testuff and Neuvosoft Test Manager, and we will continue to support more. Coming up is integration with QMetry
Things on the roadmap (Oct-Nov):
1) Flex/Flash support(Pro)
2) Simple loadtesting through HTMLUnit (Pro)
3) Integration APIs for Test Management tools (Open and Pro)
We continue with our integrations with PushToTest's TestMaker and Test Object Designer, and with ThoughtWorks Studios' Twist.
We will be starting webinars every two weeks as an introduction to Sahi. The first session is (tentatively) scheduled for 22 October 2010. If interested please email us at support@sahi.co.in
Thanks for reading through. If you have suggestions, queries or advice, please email us at feedback(at)sahi.co.in. Hope to see you next month!
