Here are some updates from the past month

Product

• ClickUp integration
  We keep on adding new integrations to our ecosystem and this time we are introducing ClickUp integration.
  
  From now on you can integrate ClickUp with PractiTest to report issues from PractiTest runs to ClickUp tasks and maintain overall testing visibility. Read more about it here
  
  

Coming up

• 10 Ideas to help you correctly evaluate 2021 and effectively plan 2022
  Join Joel Montvelisky on a webinar that will help you conclude this year and prepare for the next one. December 8th, 10:00 EDT / 16:00 CET, Sign up now
  
  

• State of Testing™
  For the last 10 years we have conducted the “State of Testing” survey to track our industry current and future trends. We invite you to take part and influence this year’s results. Take the survey here
  
  

PractiTest and Beyond

• How to Achieve Test Traceability For Compliance Requirements
  Find out all you need to know about test traceability for regulatory requirements, such as the FDA Validation Guidelines and other software safety standards and guidelines in this article
  
  

Here are some updates from the past month

Product

• Focusing on Automation
  - More parameters control in FireCracker
  From now on, you can also define parameters for tests and step names as they will appear in PractiTest, when defining field modification based on your surefile XML’s parsed results.
  Read more about it here
  
  - xBot agents view - for better admin control
  To have better control of the agents running your automated tests, we added an agents view in the account admin page. Here you can see the active and non-active agents, enable or disable them, get running parameters, edit client id and more!
  Learn more about it here
  
  

• Our clients ask - We listen
  - Create Dashboard graphs for Instances and Runs based on text, number, date and User custom fields
  When creating a dashboard item based on Instance or Run entity, you are now able to choose more fields as filters for your graph
  - Linked issues on instance grid to show ALL linked issues and not from last run only
  Unlike before,From now on you will be able to see ALL linked issues of each instance in the test set right in front of you! Without the limit to the last run only.

  
  
  

Coming up

• OnlineTestConf
  Last chance to join the upcoming Fall OnlineTestConf 3-4 November Sign up now
  
  

• State of Testing™
  Take part in the longest lasting survey in the industry! More details to come.
  Check out the State of Testing™ page
  
  

• Metatesting: The secret questions you need to ask yourself to be a world-class tester
  Join our upcoming webinar with Paul Merill, November 17th 10:30 EDT / 16:30 CET, Sign up now
  
  

Here are some updates from the past month

Product

• More focus on automation API
  From now on you can create and update any automation field through API calls. To see all the API options, go here
  
  

Coming up

• Automation: Embrace it, don’t be scared - webinar by Ajay Balamurugadas
  Learn how to approach automation to grow your career around it. October 20th 10:00 EDT / 16:00 CET Sign up now
  
  

Trending on the web

• A tool review by Alan Page
  
  We are honoured that a thought leader like Alan Page wrote “I feel like PractiTest provides a great way to be the right tool for a lot of teams – and that’s a huge achievement.” Read the full review here, and don’t forget to share
  
  

PractiTest and Beyond

• Learn about Functional Testing
  All you need to know about functional testing, now in a new in this new guide
  
  

Here are some updates from the past month

Product

• Automation Test Management #1 - xBot improvements
  PractiTest automation framework, the xBot, is constantly improving. From now on, you can schedule your automation runs from within PractiTest to run on a daily, weekly or monthly basis or on a specific date. If things change and you want to delete a pending run or kill a running test - you can do so from your xBot dashboard.
  
  
  
  
  

• Automation Test Management #2 - CircleCI integration via FireCracker
  CircleCI and PractiTest integration just got better! CircleCI has a new PractiTest FireCracker Orb to integrate all your CircleCI results into PractiTest automatically. Click here for more information and examples.
  
  

Coming up

• Growing an Experiment-driven Quality Culture
  Sign up to this guest Webinar by Elisabeth Hocke here
  
  

PractiTest and Beyond

• Learn about Exploratory Testing
  and how to apply it using PractiTest in this new guide
  
  

Here are some updates from the past month

Product

• Multiple Integrations per account
  Want to integrate PractiTest with 2 different Jira accounts? With AzureDevOps and JIRA Server? Have a team that works with a project management tool and a bugtracker? This update is for you. From now on, you can integrate your PractiTest account with 2 different issue management tools allowing you to maintain seamless control of your entire process
  
  

• Auto-sync Jira filters
  SyncingJira filter to PractiTest is no news, but now you can also keep the sync running and update PractiTest with every change you make to issues in the synced filter! Read more about it here
  
  

• Project history view
  From now on, PractiTest will combine your actions in the history tab to have all actions made by the same user in the same day on the same entity - in one record. This will help you have a clearer view of your actions log history.
  
  

• More stuff in My Stuff
  My stuff section in the account landing page will now also include your Test Sets runs logs. This gives you a quick overview of relevant actions you made recently and also easy access directly to them
  
  

  
  
  

PractiTest and Beyond

• Missed our Guest Webinar by Rob Meaney “Testing is Not the Goal”?
  It’s not too late! Watch it here
  
  

Here are some updates from the past month

Product

• FireCracker improvements for better automation results configuration
  The new FireCracker version, lets you choose whether to include xml test-cases in separate tests in PractiTest or to have them as multiple steps in one PractiTest test. You can also create more than one TestSet for your test-case runs’ results based on your xml data. Read more about it here
  
  

Coming up

• Testing is Not the Goal - Guest Webinar by Rob Meaney
  Learn from a Testability expert how to deal with the new testing reality. Don’t miss out, Wednesday, July 21st,10:00 EDT/ 16:00 CEST Sign up here
  
  

PractiTest and Beyond

• Learn about sanity testing in software development and maintenance projects.
  Read our latest QA Learning resource
  
  

Here are some updates from the past month

Product

• API Improvements for more accurate results
  From now on you can create or update steps in PractiTest using the API. Read more about it here
  
  

Coming up

• PT labs: Create your Test Management Center of Excellence, By Joel Montvelisky
  June 16th, 10:00 EDT / 16:00 CET. Sign up here
  
  

• Mobile Test Management Done Right, webinar by Daniel Knott
  June 23rd 10:00 EDT / 16:00 CET. Sign up here
  
  

PractiTest is on the Map

• Learn how to turn your personal weaknesses into your testing strength
  Come listen to Joel Montvelisky speaking on June 9th at the RTC
  
  

PractiTest and Beyond

• A-Z Guide on Sanity Testing
  Read our latest resource by Randy Rice
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Here are some updates from the past month

Product

• Customize the default view on all modules
  From now on you can customize columns on the main (All) grid view of Requirements, Test Library, Test Sets and Issues giving you more flexibility and a better view.
  
  
• Turn List fields to Multilist fields
  You can change custom list fields to multi list fields in your Fields Settings window
  
  

Coming up

• The 10th OnlineTestConf - The very first QA conference in the world is celebrating its 10th edition
  Listen to the best speakers - for free! May 11-12th Sign up here
  Want to taste first? Join Rob Lambert for a warm-up talk about ‘How to create a test strategy that aligns to the business’, May 5th Sign up here

• Testing a data science model webinar by Laveena Ramchandani
  May 26th Sign up here
  
  

PractiTest and Beyond

• Requirement Matrix Traceability
  Read our latest resource by Randy Rice
  
  

Here are some updates from the past month

Product

• Assign entities to groups
  From now on, once enabled in project settings, you can assign an entity not only to one user but to a group of users (as defined under users & groups in project settings)
  
  
• Taking automation to the next level - xBot BETA improvements
  You can now find under the TestSets & Runs module all the information you need about your xBot tests: the current running tests, the queue, the future scheduled tests and the history. Learn more about xBot options here
  
  
• New Jira Panels - Get more from your PractiTest-Jira integration
  With Atlassian’s updated issue view, you can now see all your relevant PractiTest information inside Jira in a new panel (Serve and DC users need to update their PractiTest plugin in Jira) and easily link issues from Jira to PractiTest requirements:
  • If your issue originated in PractiTest (or is linked to a PractiTest issue) you will have a clear view and links to all the run’s data.
  • If your issue is linked to a PractiTest requirement, you will see all the data about the tests covering this user-story.
  • If you want to link a Jira issue to a PractiTest requirement and create a test to cover it, you can do it with a press of a button.

  
  
  

Coming up

• {Guest Webinar} Apply the DEER heuristic to make your Exploratory Testing way more visible
  Join Anne-Marie Charrett on April 7th, Sign up here
  
  

• {PT labs} Catch up on all the latest updates to PractiTest
  Join Joel Montvelisky as he goes over some of the new PractiTest improvements that can boost your process and product. Register here
  
  

• {Experts Panel Webinar} What not to miss in the 2021 State of Testing™ report
  
  Join Joel Montvelisky and Lalitkumar Bhamaretalk to fellow testers about the new report’s findings