R1 2012 - April
With every release of Test Studio, we try to balance requests for brand-new features with key enhancements in our existing feature set. Our last major release expanded Test Studio's functionality to include Performance testing, HTML5 support, manual testing and more. This time around we have again reviewed plenty of feature requests you've submitted, and based on popularity and customer need we started working on several great features for R1 2012, scheduled to go live in the beginning of April. See below:
Adding Load/Stress Testing
We'll be introducing Load Testing to meet the heavy demand you have expressed. Test Studio's load testing will leverage the existing infrastructure of the Performance Testing feature, while providing virtual user simulation and metrics about the responsiveness of the server. You'll be able to easily run a load test and a performance test simultaneously to see how a specific one-user experience performs when a server is experiencing high load. Key goals are:
- You'll be able to generate load against a webserver from different machines.
- We'll focus on the ease of use of the feature from configuration to setup to execution. Get ready for a simple, intuitive user interface and easy setup and diagnosis of issues.
- The new load testing functionality will integrate seamlessly with our current Test Studio offering thus allowing customers that are familiar with our functional and performance testing to make easy transition into load/stress testing.
- We'll make it affordable even for smaller organizations to access this functionality that has traditionally been out of reach for organizations with limited budgets.
Integration with Quality Center
We know many of you have Quality Center deployed in their organization and asking you to make the switch to a different system is not an easy or trivial task. In the next release we will enable existing Test Studio customers to push their tests and test results in Quality Center so they can leverage their existing QC process for any tests built in Test Studio.
Defect Tracking Integration
Log bugs directly from Test Studio into defect tracking systems like TeamPulse and TFS. The bug tracking integration will be pluggable so if you wish to build a plug-in for your custom-made, in-house system, you will be able to do so.
Introducing a Tool for Exploratory Testing
We will be building a small tool that will help you be more efficient in doing exploratory testing. It will leverage our investment in bug tracking and image capturing to allow you to easily capture bugs and create tests in your exploratory testing sessions. The tool will be designed to be light-weight, handy and easy to launch and access. It will be addictive!
Enhancing HTML Test Automation
Test Studio was in fact built from the ground up to support web/html and that is what we do best. With R1, we will be taking our HTML automation to the next level! We are building specific features to help our customers deal with some of the common pain-points like automating and handling HTML grid scenarios, dealing with automatically generated IDs that are popular with jQuery and other JS frameworks and enhancing our Ajax request detection.