Release Notes 1.x

Update Patch 1.9.1.1

(patch applied to the iX-Demo CD)

• fixed the settings dialog's "mark new items" checkbox.
• improved the termination timeout handling (long time spent in post action)
• fixed the "search for active block" button's function
• fixed a scroll-offset bug in the diagram editor

 

Release 1.9.1

Release date: Jan 2011
(release candidate: 1.8.3.30)

• New blocks in the StandardLibrary 1.8.3 and StandardLibrary 1.9.1
• Separate model language translations
• URL attachments
• EBCDIC support
• HP Quality Center Interface improved (up/download of tests and test-sets, autologout)
• New plugin: Android Mobile Apps Interface
• XMI import plugin improved (can now import test cases from Enterprise Architect models)
• Java Swing plugin improved
• Much improved Java-Bridge functionality: can now inject code dynamically
• Web Interfacing updated to use newest Selenium Version.
• Improved browser profile handling (for example for proxy setup)
• Firefox profile now includes Firebug and Firepath for web page analysis
• additional Web interface blocks (waitForAndXXX, table-accessors, table enumerators)
• Optional cyclePeriod when looping a testplan
• Suspend new activities when a debugger is open (option)
• WebSpere MQ (IBM Middleware interface) client interface plugin/library
• Tagsearch includes Step-Tags
• Can now save individual TestCase- and ActivityLog results to a file
• New elementary block-type: Batch-script
• Search for steps by name in result log
• New variable-types in environment: SecretConstant, RequestFromUserWhenFirstUsed and SecretFromUserWhenFirstUsed
• Screenshot also via main menu
• Code-editor now supports code completion (CTRL-Shift) and variable-correction (define as local or pin)
• Optional sound when operator input is required
• More execution control in the Control & Monitoring Window.
• "Abort TestPlan" function in debugger.
• Search for modified actions, search for values in tree
• Improved XML-inspector (skip empty text, xml-text display)
• Can now disable a plugin in the settings (will hide its menus)
• Paste step with selected connection inserts the pasted step into the flow
• improved single step function & breakpoint behavior
• prerequisite package loading and prerequisite plugin checking
• much improved Android mobile-phone testing support
• rename variable menu-function
• improved references to variable search function (looks into code)
• embedded inspector (better environment variable value display) in the activity log
• webtest functionality upgraded to current selenium/firefox versions
• regex matching text search in tree (in addition to existing glob-matching search)
• search for consumed input value in cycles (lint)
• pause on error option in blockTester
• default parallelity of new steps is now "limited to 1"
• grouping of user defined types
• shrink-wrap of imported libraries
• colorize by tag configuration
• customizable operation menu
• improved the diff-viewer, added attachment diffs

 

Release 1.8.2

Release date: Jul 2010

• Network Editor: allow connecting to a frozen pin (freeze to same value)
• Network Editor: new menu function: "Extract Compound Action" (without replacing the selection)
• Network Editor: new menu function: "Insert Step at Connection"
• Network Editor: automatic "connect-through" when deleting steps from eni-eno chains
• More testplan information for expeccoNET: operator needed; selectable testCases.
• Search for halts and breakpoints
• Breakpoint-toggling also in the log-viewer
• Load resources from expeccoNET
• New plugin: JIRA Interface (for issue validation)
• New plugin: HP Quality Center Interface (up/download of test-suites)
• New plugin/library: Swift-Message Handling
• Fixed CTRL-a in some subviews
• More attributes in annotations

 

Release 1.8.1

Release date: May 2010 (skipped for 1.8.2)

• New blocks in the StandardLibrary 1.8.1
• Triggering Mailbox Pins (see Collect Block as an example)
• ExecutionTime-Output pin
• More search options (search for virtual, iterated and exception handling steps)
• New step flags: "Skip Children in Trace", "Assert Output Written" and "Assert Executed"
• New Settings flag "Open Debugger for Handled Exceptions"
• Report: can now include screenshots and other images
• Report: new "Print as Flat List" option.
• Report: speedup for big PDF reports
• Elementary Code Editor: Senders and References search now includes elementary code in search

 

Release 1.8.0

Release date: April 2010 (skipped for 1.8.1)

• Different connection styles (direct, curved)
• WSDL import plugin fixed and enhanced.
• Some report improvements (more variables)
• XML-RPC Blocks
• Jira Plugin
• Skill, Resource and Inventory Interface for expeccoNET

 

Release 1.7.4

Release date: Februrary 2010

• New blocks in the StandardLibrary 1.7.4
• Implicit virtual block resolving specified in environment
• Implicit virtual block resolving via virtual library specified in environment
• Resource & skill access API fixed & enhanced
• Enhanced display of virtual action in execution log
• Fixed error-display in network if error occurs in action setup
• Virtual blocks can now also be used as pre- and post-action
• Fixed the input-pin handling of virtual blocks
• TestSuite diff viewer (to compare two project versions)
• New tree-menu-functions: "Generate Instance Creator" & "Generate Field Extractor"
• New tree-menu-function: "Sort Children"
• New type-kind: CType.
• Added a new kind of inspector-view: CDatumInspector to show C-data in a structured, hierarchical list
• Non-Blocking DLL-calls

 

Release 1.7.3

Internal Release date: January 2010

• New blocks in the StandardLibrary 1.7.3
• Can now force connect of incompatible pins with CTRL-key
• Default inventory now in testSuite (moved up from the testplan)
• PostLoad & preUnload actions for suite and imported libraries

 

Release 1.7.2

Release date: October 2009

• VariableList: added nameFilter and sortability
• New blocks in the StandardLibrary 1.7.2

 

Release 1.7.1

Release date: September 2009

• When saving test suites that were originally signed with a expecco demo version, convert all demo signatures to final signatures - if you have got a dongle.
• Now can load test suites saved with expecco-developer with expecco-pro (and developer with pro - as long as you do not features that are supported only by expecco-pro in your test suite)
• all blocks tagged in the StandardLibrary 1.7.1
• new blocks in the StandardLibrary 1.7.1

 

Release 1.7.0

Release date: July 2009

• RunTimeLimit for individual testCases
• Better flyby info for steps and actions
• Folders in the tree can have a documentation
• Log files (.elf) are now zipped (Reading zipped .elf files with expecco < Rel1.7)
• WebTest: SeliniumRc has been updated to V1.0.1 and supports now Firfox3.5, Interne Explorer 8 and Google Chrome
• New functions in network-editor:
  • Exchange connections of two pins;
  • Resize to min/max;
  • Better chooser for new steps;
  • Insert & connect function (find best match for selected pins);
  • "insert step" function ("select step and connection")
  • Can place and connect new steps via the menu without drag&drop (intelligent selection list)
  • Multiple pin variable-freeze
  • Drop connection onto a step (for trigger-in/trigger-out connection)
  • Connection-colors
• In code-editor
  • F4/F5 (comment / uncomment) now also work with JavaScript code
  • Syntax color configuration in preferences dialog
  • "Implementors" menu-function fixed

  Bug Fixes and Improvements:

• Sound file access fixed
• Activity-log display update speed improved
• Keep dialogs visible (auto raise windows from dialog-blocks)

 

Release 1.6

Release date: Mar 2009

• Improved report, allows multiple report templates
• Search for Missing Attachments
• Optional Debug-Check of Pin Value against Pin Type (in elementary code)
• Scripting (Remote Control)
• "execute until success" loop feature
• Attachment output can provide contents of file (instead of pathname)
• SOA Testing: Generation of SOAP Call EB's from an imported WSDL (PRO Version only)
• CodeGenerator can generate EB from a CB (PRO Version only)
• More command line options for report generation (if executed via batch script)
• "make your own elementary GUI" blocks with the UI Editor (PRO Version only)
• Both console (expecco.com) and non-console (expecco.exe) executables are provided
• --noBanner option
• New blocks in the StandardLibrary 1.6.2

 

Release 1.5

Release date: 13.08.2008

• File Attachment
• Drag & Drop of Attachment
• New ZIP-File Format
• Improved Routing and Editor Functions
• More Search Functions
• Drag&Drop from Search

 

Release 1.4

• XML Parser Speedup
• FileBrowser, Notebook and ProcessMonitor added
• Acoustic test-execution feedback
• Stop-on-Error can be turned off when running a TestSuite
• Filter data messages in the Log-Viewer
• Better presentation of detail-data in the Log-Viewer when double-clicking (Inspector)
• Timelimit for testSuite execution
• Looping & Loopcount for testSuite execution

 

Release 1.3

• Acoustic test-execution feedback
• Stop-on-Error can be turned off when running a TestSuite
• Filter data messages in the Log-Viewer
• Better presentation of detail-data in the Log-Viewer when double-clicking (Inspector)
• Timelimit for testSuite execution
• Looping & Loopcount for testSuite execution
• FileBrowser, Notebook and ProcessMonitor added

 

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