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TestMaker 5.1, Release Candidate 1, Now Available!

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I am happy to report that TestMaker 5.1 is available for immediate download at http://www.pushtotest.com. The new version fixes many bugs and delivers useful enhancements.

We are making this Release Candidate available to get user feedback on the changes. I anticipate we will make 2 additional release candidates to solve bugs and make additional improvements. We will be using http://bugs.pushtotest.com to track the changes.

Thank you to everyone that participated in this release!

-Frank

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TestMaker 5.1 Changes

  • TestMaker 5.0 ships with TestGen4Web 0.49 that fails to install on Firefox 2.0.0.7 or later. TestMaker now ships with TestGen4Web 0.50.2-PTT to be fully compatible with Firefox 2.0.0.7 and later.
  • TestMaker 5.1 changes the way TestGen4Web scripts are run in the TestNode environment. The new script runner uses TestGen4Web's htmlunit-interpreter package. This improves TestMaker's ability to natively run TestGen4Web recorded unit tests.
  • TestMaker 5.1 offers many minor improvements and bug fixes to the results and reporting capabilities. The charts for a load test now include a legend of concurrent user (CR) levels. We fixed an issue where load tests greater than 12 hours show negative horizontal axis values in the resource distribution charts. We removed the load test summary report from the output panel. We added new options to the TestScenario definition for a load test to automatically save all charts to the results directory and create an HTML-based summary report.
  • We fixed many problems with installing and running TestMaker on Mac OS X, including an installation problem that prevented the Resource Monitor (PTTMonitor) from running.
  • We updated the documention by correcting many spelling and grammer problems and including new sections for QA Testers and IT management. Additionally, we added new documentation to show the options to log results data directly to a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)and added documentation to show how to set TestMaker and TestNode memory settings.
  • We did an overhaul of the TestMaker classpath and supporting Java Archive Resource (JAR) files.
  • TestMaker runs on Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows Vista. TestMaker 5.1 and later is no longer compatible with the old Windows 2000 and NT operating environments because of a bug in Windows that limits the size of a classpath.
  • TestMaker 5.0 shipped with a typo in the element in a TestScenario. The element was incorrectly named (notice the extra s.) TestMaker 5.1 accepts the correct and incorrect versions.
  • Added the File menu -> Open Scenario command to open TestScenarios.
  • Added new capability to TestScenarios to control timeout values for usecases (unit tests) that take too long to operate.
  • Added an option for the transaction distribution charts to use a moving data average instead of inserting every data point.

A complete list of changes and their associated bug reports is found at: http://www.pushtotest.com/Docs/vreleasenotes

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