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Watir 1.5.6 released

Watir 1.5.6 is out and mostly features bug fixes and minor enhancements. However there is one new feature that may be worth the upgrade: a speed improvement called “Zippy” speed.

Other features new since 1.5.3 (released last fall) include support for Chinese character input and the ability to locate more elements using multiple attributes.

You can now call the row method from within a table, also frequently requested. There are a number of other fixes.

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Posted in Tool news on June 17th, 2008

Project Dune releases 1.5.1

This release of issue tracker tool Project Dune is a focus on a better theme, functional improvements to the timesheet (you can now submit timesheets to the project manager) and the upgrade to Google Web Toolkit 1.5.0. There are some other small minor bug fixes.

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Posted in Tool news on June 17th, 2008

Marathon 1.2.0 released

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Marathon is a testing framework for GUI applications developed using Java/Swing.

Marathon v 1.2.0 is released. Besides a few bug fixes, this release improves performance for those forms that have hundreds of controls on them.

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Posted in Tool news on June 16th, 2008

Track: 3.5.0 released

The extended version of the popular Track+ issue tracker has been released for production use. It includes a configurable dashboard, custom fields and screens, JasperReports based reporting, notification triggers and filters, configurable workflows, and an AJAX based user interface. It comes with a rich text editor for descriptions, support for quick actions and mass operations.

The community edition running under the GPL can be downloaded on Sourceforge.

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Posted in Tool news on June 16th, 2008

BUGS 2 Beta 1 updated

After fixing several issues discovered since the launch of beta 1, we decided to release a repack of the beta 1 package. This repack mostly fixes errors related to installation, but also some other basic fixes that have been caught during the last few days.

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Posted in Tool news on June 16th, 2008

csUnit 2.5 Released

csUnit 2.5 has been released and is available for download. csUnit is open-source and free.

csUnit’s 37th release since 2001 contains 10 changes
- 5 usability related changes
- 3 quality related changes
- 2 functionality related changes
For more details see the file changes.txt.

Recent major new features:
- Added in csUnit 2.5:
- Assert.Contains(T expected, IEnumerable toBeSearched) added
- ExpectedException can also be declared with specific instances
- Was type only
- Added in csUnit 2.4:
- Search function in test hiearchy
- Support for NUnit without recompilation subject to the following limitations
- Supported for NUnit 2.4.7 (.NET 2.0 version)
- Supported attributes
- TestFixtureAttribute
- TestAttribute
- SetUpAttribute
- TearDownAttribute
- IgnoreAttribute
- ExpectedExceptionAttribute
- Addin for Visual Studio 2008

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Posted in Tool news on June 16th, 2008

FIT/FitNesse Fixture Gallery 2.0 available

Fixture Gallery is a cookbook for FIT/FitNesse tests. It provides developers with a quick overview of the most important fixture types and concepts for agile acceptance testing using the FIT framework. Each example is accompanied by the source code for Java, .NET and Python FIT implementations, in a form that can be easily copied and used as a template for similar fixtures.

Version 2.0 brings Python examples for all fixtures and concepts. FitLibrary fixtures section now has examples for ConstraintFixture, CombinationFixture, CalculateFixture and notes about SetFixture and SubSetFixture.

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Posted in Tool news on June 10th, 2008

May 2008 Survey Results

Thankyou to everyone who submitted their favourite tools last month. The results are now available at the link below.

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Posted in Tool news on June 6th, 2008

BUGS 2 Beta 1 released

The first beta version for BUGS 2 was released yesterday, with a whole bunch of advanced features. Highlights include:
* Better user management through permissions, groups and teams
* Much improved messaging functionality
* Issue tasks and issue dependancies
* Highly configurable and easier to use search, with grouping capabilities
* Product overview sections, with detailed breakdowns
* Automated roadmap generation
* Voting system
* Module based architecture which lets you build your own extensions easily
* Web 2.0 (AJAX) integration

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Posted in Tool news on June 5th, 2008

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