PractiTest Updates

October 2018 updates

Last updated: November 03, 2018

Hi,

As we are constantly updating PractiTest with new functionality and small fixes, we’ve decided to send monthly updates describing the major changes and improvements.

Here are some of the recent updates to the system, done in month of October 2018:

And of course, there were other bug fixes.

5 simple ideas to improve your testing process

Last updated: May 17, 2018

– Prioritize your tests

– Add a comments field to your runs where testers add comments when they run the test

– Once a quarter sit with your Business Stakeholder and review your tests

5 game changing features by PractiTest

Last updated: January 05, 2018

Looking at different test management tools and comparing them is boring. Yes. I said it. They all say the same and seem to be doing the same. Well, we in PractiTest are working hard to give our clients far beyond the features and solutions they can get anywhere else. We design our product by looking into our clients job, talking to them and listening to their pain points. We gathered a few of our best features for you. These are features you can’t find all together anywhere else, definitely not on the same quality level as can be found on PractiTest . They will help you organize your process, and will give you back great benefits that translate into time and money saving!

Enjoy!

  • No more data mining! Hierarchical filter trees + Advanced search – PractiTest offers you a whole new way to look at your data. Having hierarchical filters means you can slice and dice your data to your convenience. It’s a simple setting that organizes your data in a dynamic way instead of leaving it static. Its like tags but much smarter. Add our faceted search to that and your you will never look at your data the same way. Check out this video to better understand
    agile_filters
  • Fully customizable and adaptive – With PractiTest dynamic structure you can start using the tool “as is” and easily customize it to your (often changing) needs as you go. You can customize your fields (enabling custom views), implement your own user-permission levels, define the workflow of your issues, and reuse your existing data in a smart quick way. Even our pricing is scalable. So no matter if its your team that’s changing, your organization or the whole market – we’ve got you covered.
  • Never work twice. For real. We can do it.
    – Permutations – YES, permutations. No more clone change clone change clone change… tell us the basic variables you want to check and we will do all the mix and match for you.
    display of new test permutations
    – Step parameters + call to test – write a test once, use it multiple times in different ways and customise it easily each time. learn all about it here
    setting up step parameters
    – No more duplicated bugs. A unique solution you can read about here
    Anti bug duplication similar_issues_2
  • Communicate with PractiTest in more than one way
    – bug by mail – external team members are able to report bugs by mail. Amazing.
    – External dashboard sharing and advanced reports – Your boss will see the real deal now. In a way that will blow his mind.
    external_dashboard2
  • Advanced integrations – more than just transferring results. Our system can actually TALK to other systems.
    Set up practitest integrations

 

We have some more cool unique features. The best way to learn about them is by setting a free personal demo here and discuss how PractiTest can answer YOUR specific needs.

N/A status is going all the way to Runs, Tests, and even Requirements

Last updated: November 01, 2017

For better transparency of your testing efforts

Remember this?

NA Old

It’s the N/A step status we added last year as we saw the need for Not Applicable status.

We took this further and from now on, in case you mark all the tests in a test set/run as N/A, the Run status will change to N/A accordingly

NA Run Status Fix

(the same applies also to the Test Status, or even the requirement status)

This small GUI change gives an even more accurate and clearer view into your testing status, enabling you to communicate “neutral” testing efforts as they are, and not appear as “no run” like previously.

From today (Nov 29, 2017) at 7:00 AM UTC, N/A statuses will be calculated and updated all the way from the steps to the requirements. Previous runs with N/A steps, are not touched (and considered as NO RUN), mainly since we didn’t want to touch the history of your runs.

Moving to markdown

Last updated: July 01, 2017

In the last couple of weeks, we’ve been working hard to shift our previous description fields which were HTML based to markdown. The reasons to shift are many – it’s easy, fast, clean and more.

It also enabled us to upgrade the editor we had to a simpler markdown editor, with better UI capabilities and fewer bugs. We were also able to enable rich editing in the steps’ descriptions and expected results, that was not part of the application before.

And in addition to all that, if you now export and import tests from and to PractiTest, the style remains, which makes it even easier to migrate data.

 

Anyways, to cut the story short, we’re markdown! Enjoy the rich editing in steps attributes, and the (almost) bugs free editor.

markdown for steps

Take into account that old description fields (of tests, issues, requirements) were all migrated to markdown (from html). Let us know if you find any issues.

 

Session Based Testing (Exploratory Testing)

Last updated: June 01, 2017

PractiTest now includes a new type of test that supports Exploratory and Session Based Testing practices.

  • Quick and intuitive – Create Exploratory tests as test instances “on the go”
  • Run Exploratory Testing Sessions and create annotations for easy tracking and collaboration
  • Report Issues from run – works with all your existing project’s integrations

 

exploratory test annotations new exploratory test

 

Exploratory tests in PT allow you to define Charters for your ET Sessions, document annotations as you are running your tests, report bugs directly from your runs, and finally to review your ET sessions with colleagues in order to gather feedback.

Unlike other tests, which are created first in the Test Library and then added to any Test Set (new or existing) before running, the Exploratory Test is created as an instance in the TestSet and Runs module “on the go”, which is more intuitive and supportive for exploratory testing methodology.
Now your Test Sets can contain all types of tests at once: automated, manual and exploratory. This ability to combine various tests improve QA coverage and trace-ability.

Learn more

Updated application navigation bar for increased usability (and Step Parameters)

Last updated: November 09, 2016

PractiTest’s latest navigation bar update separates Project related setting and actions, such as: search, requirements, tests, reports, project settings; from other General application actions such as: user settings, help, tutorials.

This modification makes navigation more intuitive –

 

navigation bar update

 

You will also notice that all menu options are presented and are actionable based on permissions, un-permitted menu items are disabled and colored grey (used to be hidden) –

 

disabled menu options

 

One last time saving GUI change is we have moved all project settings to an quick access drop-down menu –

 

project settings drop down menu

 

New Step Parameters [Enterprise only]

This week we also relased Steps Parameters: a cool way to increase Test reusability – Learn more

New Step status: N/A

Last updated: March 01, 2016

A small addition to your steps run that will make a big difference:

  • Now you can choose to set test step status as N/A (Non Applicable) and reflect an accurate testing status.
  • Test status will be based on all other steps in the Test run and can be marked as completed.

 

step run update

This small GUI and functionality change is helpful, because it means you can now define certain steps “neutral” so they don’t affect the final run status, and you can still pass tests with N/A steps, rather than the previous “no run” option.

This is meant to give your team and project members a more accurate view of project status.

Read more about Test Sets and Run

End to end Integration with JIRA

Last updated: December 31, 2015

Yesterday (Saturday 23rd) we upgraded our integration with JIRA Server, JIRA Cloud

End to end traceability of your Jira Requirements and Issues in PractiTest for Seamless Jira test management

JIRA with trade mark

 

See JIRA issues directly in PractiTest

JIRA users can now see their JIRA Issues directly in PractiTest including all the relevant testing information.

Linked issues are synced to PractiTest in real time.

JIRA_Integration

 

Integrate Requirements into PractiTest

Your requirements/User stories are now a part of your testing.

Users can now link requirements directly from JIRA to PractiTest and have testing traceability from end to end, including:

Requirements, tests, issues and the relevant reports.

Requirements are synced from JIRA to have information at PractiTest updated at all times.

Users can choose to link/unlink the Requirement from PT to JIRA.

 

New projects are now easier to set up than ever before.

Project, issue and PT IDs are automatically populated from your JIRA projects.

 

JIRA_SERVER_settings

Start working with this integration today

JIRA Cloud users : Update was done automatically!

JIRA Server users: Please update your PractiTest-JIRA add-on and contact us.

 

For more information, please review our JIRA integration page.

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