Bangalore, San Francisco, London — 29th April 2008 — ThoughtWorks®
Twist drives the development of lasting and re-usable test suites that are easily maintainable throughout the software development lifecycle – allowing businesses to get the maximum return on the investment they make in building test suites. It allows the functional behavior of a product to be expressed in plain text, using English-like constructs. Twist provides a rich Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for defining, executing and maintaining the business intent of applications.
Chad Wathington, VP – Product Development for ThoughtWorks Studios said, "Twist is a revolutionary product because it makes robust and long-lived automated functional testing efforts possible. It provides real IDE level support for test automation, makes your tests readable by business users in whatever human language you want, and facilitates collaboration across the whole team. We built Twist to give testers and quality assurance professionals the tools to meet the demands of acceptance and regression testing modern applications, including JavaScript heavy web sites, SOA, SWT, and several other technologies.”
Twist is designed by ThoughtWorks, creators of the popular open source web testing framework Selenium. Twist improves team productivity dramatically with powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) features, like refactoring, html reporting, and automatic code generation.
Twist is a part of ThoughtWorks’
Twist 1.0 is available immediately for purchase under both perpetual and annual subscription licenses. ThoughtWorks is offering a free 30-day trial of Twist (on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux).
For more information on Twist, including pricing, please visit: www.thoughtworks.com/


