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Benerator 0.6.0 released

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:39:25 +0000

Benerator Release 0.6.0 is a major redesign, adding much power to the tool and simplifying many concepts that were problematic for users. It adds an own script language, component improvements and a large set of new extensions, now making Benerator serve as load generator, too. The big number of changes and improvements made it necessary to break backwards compatibility, a migration guide gives an overview on how to migrate existing projects.

Sonar 2.0 Released

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:54:53 +0000

The Sonar Team is pleased to announce the release of Sonar 2.0. The main feature of Sonar 2.0 consists in analysis of Design & Architecture and object-oriented metrics. This new version enables to easily :

* remove cycles between packages by cutting undesired dependencies

* represent and navigate across dependencies between components through a DSM (Dependency System Matrix)

* hunt for classes having too many responsibilities

On top of this, it contains 45 other improvements and bug-fixes.

TestLink 1.9 beta 3 released

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:29:47 +0000

Several bug fixes and new features like:
Improvement of execution and test case execution assignment filters.
Internal Links for Requirements and Requirement Specifications.
Remove test case execution assignments for complete testplan.
and more

Easy and convenient methods to test one’s Python projects

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:43:17 +0000

Python Testing: A new book from Packt Publishing that will help Python developers write tests for their applications using convenient tools and techniques of automated testing and test-driven development. This book allows users to explore how to make testing easier and more accurate with Python’s doctest module. In addition developers will also learn how to keep their units separate and discover a simple and easy way to integrate Mocker and unittest.

ItsNat v0.7 is out, more natural and more SVG options

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:36:16 +0000

ItsNat is a Java AJAX web framework with built-in functional testing support using server-sent events fired from server and test logic coded in Java.

ItsNat v0.7 release improves SVG (and XUL) support, like SVG embedded in XHTML served with MIME text/html and SVG in MSIE through the following plugins: Adobe SVG Viewer, Renesis, Savarese Ssrc (providing XUL too), SVGWeb and Batik applet, all of them supporting server-sent events useful for testing.

TestLink 1.9 beta 2 released

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:09:36 +0000

Migration from 1.8.x MySQL,Postgres
Test sase steps
Requirement versioning
Requirement search
Req. spec search
Improvements in session timeout
Some improvements in page layout

TestLink 1.9 Beta - Released

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:44:17 +0000

Main new features:
* Support for more platforms in test plans. For example, testing under Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. Users can see metrics for all these platforms separately.
* More accurate metrics.
* Improved security.
* and many minor improvements and fixes.

Known issues:
* No documentation update
* No migration (only fresh installation supported)

The next features are still in development to 1.9 release:
* Requirements versions
* Test case: step-by-step structure
* Infrastructure list

Sonar 1.12 released

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:35:25 +0000

The Sonar Team is pleased to announce the 8th and last major Sonar release of the year. Here is a summary of the new features included in the release :

Ability to manage authentication and authorization by project
Highlighted code syntax, because code is not just a bunch of plain black text
Ability to ignore violations with the new �//NOSONAR� comment

On top of this, around 60 improvements and bug fixes are contained in this new version.

Enjoy !

The Sonar Team

Introducing Sauce RC

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:04:32 +0000

Sauce Labs has taken Selenium RC to the next level through their new distribution called Sauce RC. Written by the original author of Selenium, Jason Huggins, this version includes an improved installer, important bug-fixes and more recent support for the latest browser versions including Firefox 3.5.

Sonar 1.11 released

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:21:22 +0000

Sonar is an open source platform to manage Java source code quality.

The Sonar Team is pleased to announce the release of Sonar 1.11. This version brings three new features to the platform:

A Components service to navigate within and compare resources
Addition of branch code coverage by unit tests
Detection of commented out code

On top of this, around 50 improvements and bug fixes are contained in this version. On the technical side, the purge mechanism has been greatly optimized to keep only necessary data.

Enjoy !

The Sonar Team