Sonar is an open source platform to manage code quality.

This week, the Sonar Team announced the release of the version 1.8 that brings 2 new main functionality : a Hotspots service and the management of FindBugs configuration.



Along with this new version, the Sonar plugins forge is now up and running and enables anybody to contribute and extend the existing functionality.



More information is available on the Sonar blog.

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Robot Framework 2.1 has plenty of new functionality and includes three new standard libraries. Especially the Remote library is interesting because it provides possibilities for distributed testing and creating test libraries using other languages than the natively supported Python and Java. Support for Ruby is already implemented and for example Perl support can be added in the future.

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WebLOAD Open Source has been declared End of life (EOL). Radview are emailing all registered users that if they still have a version of the product, under the EULA any distribution of the product or using it to service third parties is strictly forbidden.

However WebLOAD.org now features another product, the WebLOAD Open Source Load Generation Engine which itself points to Sourceforge. The download is called WebLOAD 8.10, which sounds like the old product. I’m confused, but am trying to find out more and will keep you posted.

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Test LInk is a web-based test management and test execution system allowing QA teams to create, manage, execute and track test cases and organize them into test plans. Test link 1.8.1 has been released. Fixes: test plan and test suites custom fields displayed on reports, and more

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httest is a scriptable HTTP Test Tool for testing and benchmarking webapplication and HTTP server development. The newest release has several improvements and many bugfixes.

New Features:
- Handle gzipped content request/response
- Urlencode strings for POST request
- Embedded shell scripts

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Sonar is an open source platform that manages Java code quality.



This version brings new features to the product :

• possibility to exclude sources or packages from quality control at the project level
• ability to use existing code coverage / unit tests results from build (beta)
• extension of the coverage clouds to modules and packages
• better comptability with IE6
• Fully functional resource viewer, enabling to view source code, tests results, violations, code coverage and duplications

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Our community today released TestLink 1.8.0, a major update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Test management tool. TestLink 1.8.0 is the culmination of 16 months of efforts from developers, security experts, localization and support communities, and testers from around the globe.

TestLink 1.8 is faster than its predecessor and offers amount of improvements, including the SOAP interface, event logger, test prioritization and extensive under the hood work to improve the stability, usability and performance of the tool.

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httest is a scriptable HTTP Test Tool for testing and benchmarking webapplication and HTTP server development. There is a windows executable available for the newest version of HTTP Test Tool

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benerator supports you in performing realistic load and performance tests. It is a framework for generating realistic and valid high-volume test data for your system under test. This release provides many enhancements requested by the community, e.g. importing Excel(TM) sheets, support for the Firebird database, custom decimal separators like ‘,’, female family names (in slavic languages), Russian names, improvements of the project wizard and several improvements in user convenience. All known bugs are fixed.

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The latest version of this automated GUI comparison software, a developer tool to avoid rendering regressions without having to take reference screenshots.

You can now add additional zones to ignore during GUI comparisons in external files, use the comparison file editor to edit scenarios, exit the local player using a key shortcut you define, you don’t need to add a getFrame method in your code anymore, you can use the Frame Identifier tool to launch jDiffChaser on an application you don’t have the code anymore, you can accelerate automated moves, skip animations, you can locally launch a suite of scenarios to test… and you have a better looking report with a new style. Free.

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