Just before the end of the 2011, and maybe as a starting point for 2012, we just released (this last Wednesday) and update to PractiTest with additional features requested by many of you during the last couple of months.

The feature list is extensive, but here is a summary of the highlights:

• User alert before leaving a page with unsaved data. A simple yet useful reminder for those cases when you “accidentally” left a page with issues or tests and you forgot save your work before hand.
• Multilist support on the dashboard. This feature will allow you to create graphs and tables also for fields of type multilist, providing enhanced visibility into your project.



• Added instance count field to the Test Set Grid. Similar to the Step Count in the Test Library, providing added visibility into your Test Sets
• Improved visibility into the users in your account. Showing Account Administrators a list of their users by the projects they are assigned to, and of the projects with all the users in them. This feature also allows you to delete users from all projects simultaneously.
• Email notification for users when added to a new project. Making sure your users are aware of new assignments or additional projects they can now access via PractiTest.
• And many additional smaller features and fixes

As always, we invite you to go to our User’s Feedback forum and update us with the features and options you would like to see included in PractiTest. This information is really important to us to make our system better and more aligned with your needs.

From all the PractiTest team and family, we hope you had a pretty cool and fun 2011, and we wish 2012 is you an event better year; a year of happiness, success & fruitful testing!

We’ve been working really hard on the “October-2011″ version of PractiTest, that we released this Wednesday (today ).

To be honest, we originally aimed to release this update about 6 weeks ago, but the scope of the features kept growing, and it took us more than expected to reach “code freeze”. Eventually, we decided to cut the scope a little and made this release as an opening shot for the next ones to come.

Here are some of the major items we included in this version:

• Better (ajax) grid in the Issues and Test-Instances. This grid comes with many requested features, such as:
  • Batch edit & batch filter – also to Test-Instances
  • Better and complete batch edit for Issues
  • Batch delete where permitted
  • Column chooser for the Instance Grid -> this means you can choose what columns you want to see in the instance grid, including custom fields
  • and more

Instances Grid

• Attachment support for steps – enabling to attachments (or links) to steps, and see them while you run the test.
• Better history log for step changes
• Adding comment to the ’send by email’ feature of the issues
• a large number of additional improvements and bug fixes

Add attachments (and link-attachments) to steps

We already started working on the next version, and always there are many things coming that have been asked for in our User Feedback forum. Still, we ask you to keep telling us what you’d like to see in PractiTest so that we can make the system even better for all of us.

Until next time (hopefully in a shorter time this time around)!

Hi,

This weekend we released a new version of PractiTest with many features requested during the last couple of months.

Dashboard
- Added the option to create a Private Dashboard tab where each user can define the graphs and information he wants to see.
- Dashboard graphs are now clickable and will allow users to “zoom-in” and see the data behind the specific pie or graph displayed.  So, for example, in a pie chart of the bugs for your release you can click and see the specific ones that are in status rejected or open.
- We added the ability to personalize which dashboard tab you want to be displayed by default on each of your projects.
- Added new dashboard items for test instances.

Exporting, Reporting and Printing
- We added the ability to print specific issues, tests, test sets and requirements straight from the form.
- Expanded the support to export specific custom views from all the modules in PractiTest.

Test Execution
- Users can now see the attachments defined in the test library as part of the test instances running within a test set.
- We added a visual indication when adding test instances to your test set whenever a specific test is already part of the given test set.

General
- Improvements to the Multiselect fields.
- Plus a number of additional smaller features and fixes.

As the amount of feature requests grows from month to month we’d like to remind and encourage you to use our User Feedback Forum in order to let us know what additional functionality you’d like to see in PractiTest.  Remember that this forum is there not only to add your own requests, but also to vote for the features requested by other users that you’d also want to see in PractiTest.  This in turn will help us plan and prioritize our work based on your priorities.

Feel free to let us know what you think by leaving comments and sending us your feedback!

Hi,

This weekend we released a new version of PractiTest with one feature in particular that has been requested by a number of customers – the public release of our Automation XBot Plugin.

Using the XBot, you can run automated tests and scripts created with virtually any tool (Selenium, Watir, QTP, etc) or any homegrown testing framework.  You can learn more about the XBot from our Automated Tests documentation, and if you want to take part in this Public Beta just send us an email and we will activate this feature in your projects.

XBot Automation Settings

This version comes with a number of small additions in the Report Center, such as the ability to export your reports to PDF format as well as to work with Views on Requirement Reports.

The current release also fixes a number of smaller issues that were reported by some of you in the last couple of weeks.

We’ll be happy to get your feedback on these or any of the rest of PractiTest, you mail us directly or use our User Feedback Forum.

Hi,

Last night we released a new version of PractiTest with many of the features you’ve requested either using our feedback forum, or by contacting us directly.

Here’s a recap of this release’s main new features:

• Dashboard customization – control the information you display as part of your PractiTest Dashboard. Customize the graphs and tables you show in your project’s dashboard, when you login to the system, according to your personal and specific needs and constraint

Customize the graphs on the dashboard

• Run your tests in either Compact or Extended mode – we introduced a new way to run your tests in “Compact mode”.  This mode allows you to see many steps together displayed in a convenient grid format.   There are still some functions that are available only on the “Extended mode”, such as attaching files or manually linking issues, but if you have long and short steps, or if you are running Exploratory Testing Sessions you may find this mode more convenient.

An example of running a test in a compact mode

• Step Count field in the Test Library
• This version includes other small enhancement such as a “Run Next Test” button in the Test Run Window, Information Tooltips, enlarged comment fields, and some bug fixes

We hope you find it useful!

Don’t be shy and use our User Feedback Forum to help us develop more great features.