TextTest Changelog

What's new in TextTest 3.28.2

Jul 13, 2015
  • make killing tests on Windows when running in parallel work better

New in TextTest 3.25 (Jan 24, 2013)

  • It is now possible to have separate locations for logs (shared disk) and sandbox (local disk).
  • The dynamic GUI now shows previews of files that compared as equal.
  • Improvements were made to the Jenkins plugin and integration with the StoryText editor for GUI testing.

New in TextTest 3.24 (Oct 6, 2012)

  • This version added Jenkins integration in HTML reports, and direct linking to change and bugfix information. Alpha support was added for Condor.
  • A third grid engine was provided in addition to GE and LSF (Condor works better on Windows).
  • A new run_dependent_text syntax was provided for finding later matches in a file.

New in TextTest 3.22 (Nov 22, 2011)

  • Search facilities have bee added to the HTML report.
  • There are additional possibilities in run_dependent_text and in copying data files.
  • There are six months worth of generally minor enhancements and bugfixes.

New in TextTest 3.20 (Sep 30, 2010)

  • Various enhancements and bugfixes were made.
  • Notably, tests can be rerun from the dynamic GUI with different settings.
  • Config file settings can now be varied per-test.
  • A "known bug" that will trigger a rerun of the test up to a certain number of times can be run.
  • This release requires Python 2.6 and PyGTK 2.16 or later.

New in TextTest 3.19 (Jun 28, 2010)

  • Various enhancements and bug fixes were made.
  • GUI improvements were made with a focus on usability.
  • Enhancements were made to the "known bugs" functionality.
  • Sun Grid Engine is polled to make the status of tests in it more visible.
  • Note this is the last release that will support Python 2.4 and 2.5: TextTest 3.20 will require Python 2.6 and probably GTK 2.18 as well.

New in TextTest 3.16.1 (Dec 22, 2009)

  • Bug Fixes to 3.16:
  • Sorted out radio button naming, which was strange in quite a few cases (guiplugins.py)
  • No longer ignore "vanilla" flag when finding UI map files (pyusecase_interface.py)
  • Fixes for older bugs:
  • Don't stacktrace if dynamic GUI window is closed with tests running (controller.py)
  • Slow-motion replay check box is shown after importing a new GUI-application for test (runningactions.py)
  • Recording tab no longer shown after importing a non-GUI application for test (guiplugins.py)
  • "Record Use-case" stays greyed out if the application under test isn't a GUI (guiplugins.py)
  • Fixed bug where repeating non-exact matches for traffic replay didn't produce them in the correct order (traffic.py)
  • Fixed performance issue with many doomed attempts to import non-existent GUI configuration modules (guiplugins.py)
  • copy_test_path_merge will now also merge subdirectories as it should (sandbox.py)

New in TextTest 3.16 (Dec 22, 2009)

  • Static GUI Enhancements:
  • Can now rename files from the drop-down list in the file view (adminactions.py)
  • "Refresh" replaces "Remove Tests" in the default toolbar, mostly for aesthetic reasons (default_gui-static.xml)
  • Toolbar contents can be configured/put back, see "personalising the UI" on the website
  • "Add Application" dialog now has a drop-down list of all possible GUI-testing options (adminactions.py)
  • Allows you to get started testing a UI before understanding the config file
  • Error handling on initial "Add Application" dialog improved (adminactions.py)
  • Reject illegal characters in suffix and subdirectory names
  • GUI-testing "UI map" files now visible from the Config tab (filetrees.py)
  • Framework Enhancements:
  • Now integrates with Atlassian's Jira bugtracking system as well as Bugzilla (jira.py)
  • Works in broadly the same way as the bugzilla integration. See website for details.
  • "collate_file" functionality for multiple files rewritten (sandbox.py)
  • Patterns of the form "data*:data*.dump" should behave more intuitively, but may not be completely back-compatible.
  • Read the migration notes and the website for details.
  • "run_dependent_text" enhanced for filtering away sections of text (rundependent.py)
  • Can now control whether start and end lines are filtered via e.g. "{[->]}" syntax
  • Versioned config files can be now be placed in "extra_search_directory" locations (testmodel.py)
  • Previously only imported files could be found there.
  • "suppress_stderr_text" now supports the same syntax as "run_dependent_text" (default/__init__.py)
  • Allows e.g. multiline filtering
  • "text_diff_program_max_file_size" setting now renamed to "max_file_size" and is now a dictionary (comparefile.py)
  • Keys are names of programs. Also get a warning dialog if you try to open a too-large file from the GUI.
  • Now sets "USECASE_HOME" for testing GUIs with e.g. PyUseCase to "pyusecase_files" (default/__init__.py)
  • Previously allowed SUT's usecase files to get mixed up with TextTest's own.
  • default.CountTest script now reports a grand total at the end (default/__init__.py)
  • Batch Report Enhancements:
  • Now automatically generates a "dashboard" page containing links to all reports and current status (batch/__init__.py)
  • Comes for free with "-coll", can also be done alone via -s batch.GenerateSummaryPage. See website.
  • Can now create separate report tables containing (e.g.) performance or memory information. (testoverview.py)
  • Use -coll web.performance: see website for details.
  • If several versions are present on the same page, a "grand total" is shown.
  • Rows or tables containing only "N/A" will no longer be shown (testoverview.py)
  • If source files are empty, it points this out and suggests the disk may be full (testoverview.py)
  • Cells now have tooltips indicating which test and date they are, to avoid scrolling large tables (testoverview.py)
  • For the email report, SMTP authentication is now possible (batch/__init__.py)
  • New config file settings "smtp_server_username" and "smtp_server_password"
  • Grid Engine (LSF/SGE) enhancements:
  • Grid Engine command line now appears in the "Run Info" tab of the dynamic GUI. (textinfo.py)
  • Self-test/Internal changes:
  • PyUseCase instrumentation removed, use PyUseCase 3.0 which doesn't need this.
  • Uses UI map files (under etc) instead, and command-line PyUseCase.
  • Now automatically pick up a local PyUseCase repository called "pyusecase" (texttest.py)
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Accelerators for "Cut Test", "Copy Test" and "Paste Test" are disabled when a text widget is focussed (adminactions.py)
  • Means you can use Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+C for text manipulation in TextTest windows.
  • Newly created applications now work without restarting if version control is enabled (controller.py)
  • Worked around a Mercurial bug renaming files with symbolic links in the name (hg.py)
  • "copy_test_path:$ENV_VAR" will now do nothing if ENV_VAR is empty (sandbox.py)
  • Previously set it to $TEXTTEST_SANDBOX/. which could cause problems.
  • If a "collate_script" produces an empty file from non-empty input, don't write an empty file (sandbox.py)
  • An "extra_version" will now read its GUI-testing config and not just assume it's the same as the parent (guiplugins.py)
  • "save_filtered_file_stems" now supports file name expansions (comparefile.py)
  • Scripts like default.CountTest won't send spurious mail if run with the batch flag ("-b") (default/__init__.py)
  • Don't stacktrace if an environment variable in "copy_test_path" doesn't exist (sandbox.py)
  • Don't stacktrace if a "collate_script" doesn't exist (sandbox.py)
  • Don't stacktrace if the argument to "-cp" (or Times to Run) is invalid (default/__init__.py)
  • Don't stacktrace if a relative interpreter program isn't found (default/__init__.py)
  • Don't stacktrace if the same application name provided twice "-a app,app" on the command line (testmodel.py)

New in TextTest 3.15 (Sep 29, 2009)

  • A fair amount has happened since 3.14 in early June.
  • There is perhaps no single major improvement that stands out, but many smaller things that are likely to be useful.
  • For example, it is now possible to rerun tests directly from the dynamic GUI.
  • "Options" files can be used in the same way as environment files, so that they can be placed anywhere in the hierarchy and duplication of command-line options can be eliminated.

New in TextTest 3.14 (May 26, 2009)

  • General GUI Enhancements:
  • This ChangeLog now visible from the GUI (helpdialogs.py) From Help menu/Change Logs
  • Locations chosen in FileChoosers now get remembered (plugins.py) So you don't need to keep searching to the same place.
  • Static GUI Enhancements:
  • "Create File" functionality enhanced. (default_gui.py) Will now handle directories correctly, and you can choose your source with a filechooser now.
  • Can now run all the tests in a suite by selecting just that suite (default_gui.py) Also works for reconnecting and saving selections.
  • Framework Enhancements:
  • Can now run tests on a remote machine (UNIX only) (default.py) Even works if file system not shared. New config entries "remote_shell_program" and "remote_copy_program". See website for details.
  • TextTest now collects exit codes from the system under test by default (default.py) Only writes files for non-zero status. Can be disabled via discard_file
  • Can now remove certain elements from versioned config files (plugins.py) New syntax {CLEAR }
  • Can now tell TextTest to merge data directories with each other (sandbox.py) Use new config setting "copy_test_path_merge". "copy_test_path" causes directories to be overwritten.
  • Can now filter floating-point differences to within a certain tolerance (rundependent.py/fpdiff.py) New config file setting "floating_point_tolerance". See documentation on website. Thanks to Michael Behrisch for this. Can now collate result files from a variety of possible source patterns (sandbox.py)Essentially collate_file is now a list. May require migration in theory.
  • Decoupled ignoring other errors from reporting bugs as "internal error" (knownbugs.py) Now separate check boxes for these things when doing "Enter failure information"
  • Bugs marked as "internal error" get reported in preference to "known bug" (knownbugs.py) The former are usually some catastrophic general environment failure
  • Config file setting "performance_use_normalised_%" renamed for generic application (default.py) Now called "use_normalised_percentage_change" to reflect possible usage for other purposes. Old name aliased.
  • Traffic mechanism does not assume asynchronous file edits are possible any more (traffic.py)
  • Need to explicitly list programs that might do this : key with "asynchronous" in "collect_traffic" config file setting, which is now a dictionary.
  • No longer ignores missing traffic and usecase files. (default.py) "definition_file_stems" is now a dictionary, where items like these can be keyed "regenerate"
  • Now set up the checkout if we can when running scripts, including website generation (default.py) Means repository location can depend on TEXTTEST_CHECKOUT.
  • Picks up "properties" files in a similar way to "environment" files (testmodel.py) Used for Java applications. See website for more details.
  • Default location of temporary files changed (engine.py) Now writes to ~/.texttest/tmp instead of $TEMP or ~/texttesttmp
  • Version Control Browser Enhancements/bug fixes:
  • Administration operations update the VCS correctly (version_control.py) Rename,Move and Remove will also do so in the VCS for tests under VCS-control
  • Can now add to the VCS via TextTest (version_control.py) Separate action on appropriate menu
  • Now supports Bazaar and Mercurial as well as CVS (bzr.py/hg.py/version_control.py)
  • Hiding "unknown" category now works correctly (version_control.py)
  • Internal changes:
  • TextTest now structured into packages so lots of files have moved around
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Traffic mechanism does not handle directory removals by removing all files any more (traffic.py) Actually stores and replays the directory removal directly.
  • No longer flag runs as missing if batch_collect_compulsory_version overlaps with versions given on command line (batch.py)
  • Python 2.6 shouldn't produce annoying messages about deprecated modules any more.
  • Worked around GTK 2.14 bug in file chooser handling, will no longer hang
  • Race condition removed from virtual server handling on UNIX: shouldn't leak virtual servers any more (startXvfb.py)
  • No longer stacktrace if "interpreter" is an invalid path (default/__init__.py)
  • No longer stacktrace when repositioning tests if no write permissions to the files (default_gui.py)
  • Now shows correct test names in the status bar after a rename (engine.py)
  • Don't crash if copying or moving a suite and its contents (default_gui.py)
  • Now works to run locally from bin directory. Thanks again to Michael Behrisch (texttest.py) "Extra versions" write to sensible batch repository locations when no version given on command line (batch.py)
  • Website generation works for "Extra version" applications even if the parent is blocked or has no data (batch.py)

New in TextTest 3.13 (Mar 3, 2009)

  • There are a variety of enhancements, with a focus on the HTML report and the CVS integration.
  • There are plenty of bugfixes.

New in TextTest 3.12.1 (Aug 27, 2008)

  • Installation and self-test changes:
  • ViewHelp self-test fixed, oversight in 3.12 release
  • 2 reconnect self-tests fixed on Ubuntu that worked on both RHEL and Windows...
  • Self-test coverage work: tests added, dead code removed, no-coverage pragmas added. Coverage now 97.2%
  • Bug Fixes to 3.12:
  • Reconnecting to several runs simultaneously with extra versions will find all extra versions correctly (reconnect.py)
  • Reconnecting to extra version tests only now works correctly in the static GUI (default_gui.py)
  • Fixed bug where multiple reconnected runs might not be grouped correctly
  • relates to Ubuntu tests above (reconnect.py)
  • When viewing bugzilla bugs in the browser from the UI, update the status bar correctly (texttestgui.py)
  • Fixes for older bugs:
  • Fixed problem where recompute needed pressing twice if changing baseline file with run-dependent text (default.py)
  • "catalogue_process_string" setting now works on Windows (sandbox.py)
  • traffic.ModifyTraffic script now works on Windows (traffic.py)
  • Fixed crash when providing filter arguments without options on command line, e.g. "texttest.py -t" (default.py)
  • Error message when PyGTK not found is now more informative (texttestgui.py)