Check for Updates – New Product Version Notification Service

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Now you can receive notifications in Test Studio when a new product update is published. There are several options to get the notifications set up – from the help ribbon bar and from the project settings dialog. You can set up automatic check for the latest version on startup and you can choose to get notifications either for official or internal builds (or both). Full documentation.

Search in Tests and Steps

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Тhis nifty new feature allows you to search for tests in the project and steps in the test. Check the documentation about search test steps and search tests.

Scheduling Feature Updates

• Enhanced TFS Integration

This feature helps you integrate your projects in TFS with the scheduling feature. Instead of relying on a shared folder you can simply tell the Scheduling to get the latest version of the tests prior to starting each new run.

• Customizable Emails

In this release we included the top voted PITS request related to the test scheduling. It gives you the ability to customize the email subject and content as well as attach Word and Excel high-level reports.

Codeless Scrolling in Virtualized Panels

This has been a pain for many of you automating Silverlight/WPF applications since you had to plug in some complex code to tell the automation scroll to some item in controls like ListBox, GridView, TreeView and similar. The new solution exposes a scrolling action you can automatically add to the test. It just scrolls the virtualized panel according to the vertical height upon recording.

Support for Windows 8, IE 10 and Visual Studio 2012

With R2 2012 Test Studio adds full support for recording and executing tests on Windows 8, along with support for the newest browser offering from Microsoft, Internet Explorer 10. Better yet, Test Studio’s Visual Studio plugin now seamlessly integrates with the Visual Studio 2012 development environment.

Goals for Load Tests

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R2 2012 also introduces the option to set goals for your load tests - maximum HTTP errors/ second, responses received/second, average response time, and more. We wanted to make it easy for users to set parameters and quickly see if their web servers can handle their application load. It’s up to you to decide on what the acceptable metric levels are!

You can select from the suggested goals or add any custom goal based on any of the metrics you’d like to monitor. Your test can be set to stop automatically if a certain goal is met.

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Machine performance monitoring during load test

This release also adds the option to monitor the performance of each of your servers, controllers and agents that constitute your load test environment. Select the performance counters you’d like to monitor for your machines such as total processor time, system processes, server sessions, and more. You can also save your selection as a template for future use. The ‘per machine’ results can be found right next to your test run results in the Analysis tab.

Windows authentication

With R2 Test Studio also adds support for load test scenarios that employ Windows authentication. You can add identities form the Manage Windows Authentication button in the Design Screen of your Load test, and then simply assign the new user identity to the user scenario.

Reporting Dashboard

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Test Studio’s Load testing reporting and analysis functionality gets various valuable enhancements with this release. We introduced a Reporting Dashboard that offers you a live stream of your results trend while your load test is still running.

Better yet, now Test Studio allows you to view and compare results from multiple test runs with a mouse click.

Browser configuration assistance to help you get your machine ready for automation

No need to waste time on calibrating your browsers for test automation anymore! Test Studio does this for you automatically instead. We’ll go in and make all the configuration changes to make sure we work with the all the browsers installed on your machine.

Visual data-binding for your Find Expressions

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With this release we also add the ability to data drive the find logic for your element locators thus helping you save time and efforts on tedious, repetitive tasks. Instead of crafting a verification for each element, now you can focus on creating robust verifications that can be applied to a range of elements on your page—all from a single step!