Twist is a test automation and functional testing solution built by Thoughtworks Studios, the software division of ThoughtWorks. It uses Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test-driven development (TDD) for functional testing 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 and Go for Agile release management.
Twist is no longer supported by ThoughtWorks.
Features
Twist allows test specifications to be written in English or any UTF-8 supported language.
Test implementation is done using Java or Groovy.
Twist's IDE supports manual, automated and hybrid testing.
Twist can be used with any Java based driver. It provides support for
Selenium and Sahi for testing web-based applications
SWTBot for testing Eclipse/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
