Our community today announces TestLink 1.8.4, a minor update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Test management tool. The release includes 32 bug fixes, several localization updates and new Finish localization.

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* Scalability improvements (tested with several million simultaneous
users and more than one million requests per second generated by a Tsung
cluster)
* Ability to start a specific session at a specific time
* Improve dynamic variables and matching of responses
* New plot tool to ease comparison of several tests (tsung-plotter)
* This version adds pubsub and MUC support for XMPP
* Ability to retrieve monitoring data from a munin-node agent
* And many other smaller bugfixes and improvements

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After some six years in development TestPlan 1.0 has been released. This is a multi-purpose web testing and application automation tool.

TestPlan can drive tests through FireFox, Internet Explorer, or an internal display-less browser.

TestPlan is released under the GPLv3.

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* Fixed httest: Do not url encode “+”

* Improved httest: if read huge lines, httest will grow exponentaly in memory

* Fixed httest: Socket eof reader do hold only the last 8KB

* Improved httest: Read _EXEC output in one peace instead line by line

* Fixed httest: Reading/writing file from/to pipe do not work properly

* Fixed httest: Data need to be null terminated for regex even binary data

* Improved httest: Base64 encoding/decoding support

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

The Sonar Team is pleased to announce the release of Sonar 1.10.


The new version manages 5 levels of priority on rules and associates a weight to each of them. It means that Rules Compliance Index not only is sharper, but can be customized.



On top of this, around 50 improvements and bug fixes are contained in this version. Amongst them :

- Ability to do configuration at project level and override the general settings

- Ability to filter by rule or group of rules (priority for example) when viewing the code

- Improvement of Violations drill down

- Integration of Cobertura 2.3

- Tendencies calculated on 30 days



On the technical side, performances have been improved and the plugins API has been rationalized.



Have fun !



The Sonar Team

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Jailer is a Database Subsetting Tool. It exports consistent, referentially intact row-sets from relational databases. It removes data w/o violating integrity, generates DbUnit datasets, hierarchically structured XML and topologically sorted SQL-DML.

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In times with increasingly complex software systems and with growing expectations regarding the quality of systems implemented, high demands are put on testing.
This conference wishes to set focus on these challenges in the context of free testing tools. We encourage you to participate with a presentation within this area.

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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:
- Improved _IF command, can handle now [NOT] MATCH|EQ|LT|GT|LE|GE
- For each command implemented

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Databene Benclipse is an Eclipse plugin that integrates Databene Benerator with Eclipse.



Benerators purpose is to generate mass test data for performance testing that satisfies even complex validity constraints, to be connective to all types of software systems and to be strongly extensible. Benerator reduces the work time needed for defining test data by a factor of 5 and more.



Benclipse strongly simplifies especially the first steps in test data generation and speeds up test data definition even more by providing a project wizard with a series of templates to start with, a set of bundled JDBC drivers, a sophisticated JDBC configuration wizard, a database
snapshot facility for creating database dumps in DbUnit format and a built-in HSQL database for trying the first steps.

Databene Benclipse and Benerator both are released under a dual license: GPL and commercial.

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TestLink 1.8.3 is a minor update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Test management tool. The release includes several bug fixes and localization updates.

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