Our story
SquashTM has been published since 2011 by Henix, a software quality specialist.
Henix is a French independent IT services company, gathering 480 employees with a Software Quality expertise.
Our mission is to support our clients by checking the technical and functional quality of their applications, developed by external integrators or in agile mode. During our external QA missions, we realised open source offers had poor ergonomics and tended to be restricted to small accounts while commercial offers were likely to be expensive and far too complicated.
In 2011, to initially meet our own needs, we developed the ideal qualification tool, based on an open-core source, for our external QA missions: Squash TM. From the outset until 2013, the FUI (French Unique Interministerial Funds), the Systematic competitiveness cluster, the Île-de-France region and the Hauts-de-Seine departmental council supported us for the project initiation phase. Since then, we have been building a user community and upgrading the tool thanks to self-funding and revenues from our licence sales.
In 2012, Squash TA came from the need for an open source tool that would be dedicated to test automation and the industrialisation of test executions. Squash TA is compatible with several automation tools such as Selenium. It handles test automation for web applications, web services and batch scripts.
In 2019, Squash TA expanded its offer and became Squash TF, a new software suite dedicated to automated test implementation and execution throughout development cycles and delivery processes. Covering a wide range of practices (various testing frameworks, keyword-driven and BDD approaches) and test technologies (HCI, web services, fat clients), Squash TF provides suitable solutions for all stakeholders involved in automation projects (developers, automation engineers, integrators).
In 2021, a new product offering was created dividing the Squash solution into three distinct products (the last two of which aimed to replace and improve Squash TF):
- Squash TM, to manage manual tests and whose interface was updated in July 2021,
- Squash AUTOM, to unify/homogenise the use of the different complementary automation systems compared to Selenium (Cypress, SoapUI, Appium…) and the different studios (Robot Framework, Cucumber, UFT, Agilitest…),
- Squash DEVOPS, to orchestrate automated tests, integrate them into the DevOps pipeline (CI/CD) then post the results.
In 2024, we decided to simplify our offer to align it with our product vision of a tool adapted to the different use cases of functional testing (V-shaped or agile cycle, moving from build phase to run phase, with or without automated tests, continuous testing or not, etc.).
Now, we offer a single product in three editions:
- Community edition (free), the tester’s operational tool,
- Premium edition to gain productivity and comfort,
- Ultimate edition, for intensive use by large accounts and integration with proprietary automation studios.
We also offer a hosted offer, for which we manage the installation and technical administration of the software.
SquashTM is now widely distributed in its open source version, with more than 2000 downloads per month worldwide. It is used in its commercial version in France and internationally, notably by major companies and IT services companies.
Focus on Software Quality Club
Since 2006, Henix has been taking part in the French Software Quality landscape by hosting the Software Quality Club which aims at gathering the major experts so that they can share their news, issues and experiences with Software Quality.
Throughout the 30 sessions that have been held until now, the Club has also been a great opportunity for more and more users of SquashTM to discuss during the SquashTM User Club.