Celebrate TestWise's 15-Year Birthday with a Special Discount for the first time: 25% off.

Happy New Year to real (and want to be real) test automation engineers.

Zhimin Zhan

4 min readDec 27, 2023

Table of Contents:
· How to get the Discount?
· TestWise Free Mode
· The benefits of Purchasing licenses

On 5th January 2009, TestWise (testing IDE) v1 was released after 15 months of development in my spare time.

https://agileway.com.au/testwise/changelog_v1

https://agileway.com.au/testwise/changelog_v0

A few days ago, I released TestWise 7. Playwright (with variants test syntax framework, such as + Mocha, +Pytest and Playwright Test) is now supported, on top of existing Watir and Selenium WebDriver. In my opinion, Selenium WebDriver + RSpec is still the best, leading others by a huge margin.

Table of Contents:
· How to get the Discount?
· TestWise Free Mode
· The benefits of Purchasing licenses

After 15 years, I still use TestWise on a daily basis. It helped my contracting/consulting (for other companies) and, more importantly, my own app development.

15-years is considered quite long for software, so I decided to mark this significant milestone with a first-time-ever discount that is available to everyone.

An Event Changed Me to Work for Myself: Attending One Former Colleague’s Funeral

A realization to decide to develop my own software/apps.

zhiminzhan.medium.com

Had I not embarked on this side hustle, which later transformed into a passive-income generating Micro-ISV (with more apps), there would be no software I co-developed (in various teams) during 20+ years of contracting still in use. I would consider it a sad outcome for a not-so-old software engineer like myself.

How to get the Discount?

Follow the pricing link on the AgileWay site, or go direct.

Click the “I have coupon” link (as indicated), and enter the coupon code:

YEAR24TW25OFF

The price will be changed from $360 → $270 (+10% Sales Tax).

While this special was meant for the TestWise Personal License initially, we decided to expand it to the floating license (for companies) as well.

Please be aware that obtaining a TestWise license is not mandatory for using it in personal side-hustle projects or at work.

TestWise Free Mode

Since 2009, TestWise has always offered a free mode. Before TestWise 6, it was Community Edition. Now, it is fully featured with just two minor inconveniences.

Limited to 15 executions per start-up.
Workaround: Restart TestWise, which only takes 1 or 2 seconds.

Wait 10 seconds, showing test automation & CT hints (not Ads), on start-up.

The benefits of Purchasing licenses

With only $30/month (now $22.5 with this special), TestWise customers are entitled to the following benefits:

Uninterrupted Use of TestWise
Free Technical Support (tool use, not the scripts)
Complimentary Mentoring for Selenium RSpec test scripts written for our free test automation practice site.

Plus, feeling good to support us.

A special mention of the last: Complimentary Mentoring, which many did not realize its great value. I would be thrilled to have this back to my early learning-test-automation days (in 2005).

I received many requests (from our customers and the public) to help with their test scripts. Obviously, we are unable to fulfil. We have a dedicated commercial mentoring service for that. Only in that commercial arrangement (protecting the customers as well), our coaches will invest time and effort to solve the customers’ testing challenges, answer questions, review test scripts, …, .etc.

This free complimentary mentoring for TestWise customers strikes a good balance. If a customer replicates a testing challenge on our WhenWise test site, we could offer solutions quickly, as we have done that and are familiar with the target app and the tool TestWise, of course.

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