What's new in Quality Spy 1.6.0.0
Oct 31, 2017
- New features and enhancements
- QDocs:
- New features and performance improvements in QDocs are the focus of this release.
- QDocs: New Section Types
- You can now use work item details, yUML diagrams, System Maps and subchapter lists in a chapter.
- QDocs: UI Experience
- We upgraded the docs editor, the performance of large lists and simplified the settings. Especially cool is the new "I'm in the Zone!" mode.
- QDocs: External Datasources
- List items can be imported from Excel or SQL Server. External lists cannot be modified in QDocs, but can be linked in the docs. Note that external lists need an field named "ID" so that they can be synced multiple times.
- QDocs: ID Generator
- Lists now support a simple ID generator to create IDs like "REQ-1", "REQ-2", etc.
- QDocs: Compatibility
- Older versions cannot open files saved with version 1.6.0.
- System Map
- Quality Spy setup now includes the stand-alone tool System Map. It supports a very lightweight approach to software specification. QDocs supports displaying System Maps, the external tool is required for editing.
New in Quality Spy 1.5 (Mar 17, 2017)
- NEW FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS:
- QDocs & QDocs Plugin:
- Quality Spy now ships with QDocs, a lean specification system which is a stand-alone tool, but also embeddable via a Quality Spy plugin.
- It's really different to other requirements and specification tools. It's for those that want to write expressive documents, but also need atomic requirements that can be pioritized and progress-checked.
- Specification Links:
- Specification files, not just QDocs, can be linked to your test project.
- Quality Spy will remain a lean tool and thus will not provide "heavy" features like requirements tracing. It's not our philosophy. But switching to a requirements doc without having to use a separate tool can be very handy.
- Test Run Plugin Tabs:
- It's now possible to add dynamic tabs to any test run. The cool thing is that this tabs are defined by plugins. We provide standard plugins for PDFs and QDocs. But there are endless possibilities for integrating other vital project systems, performance-monitors or anything you can think of. We are excited to hear what you are building with it!
- To implement a plugin define a class that inherits from BasePlugin and overrides GetDynamicTestRunPluginTabTypes and place the DLL in the plugins folder.
- Image Viewer / GIF-Player:
- You can now open any image attachement in a separate new window. If you embedd GIFs for repro steps, it acts as a video player. If GIFs contain multiple frames they are also shown with a "play" icon.
- Send Protocol via Outlook:
- Executes a RTF-export and sends the protocol via Outlook (Outlook 2013 or newer is supported, older versions on own risk).
- Text Attachements:
- Attach text files, especially longer log files. Quality Spy provides a specialized and optimized view that does not clutter the protocol entry text.
- Improved TFS Plugin:
- The new plugin command "Add to TFS" adds the protocol file to the TFS pending changes. This is helpful, since by default TFS will ignore the .tpcl file extension.
- Improved Behavior on Page Switch:
- The state of opened test runs, expanded checklists etc. is now preserved when the page is switched. It helps especially when the test plan needs to be changed during testing (exploratory testing).
New in Quality Spy 1.3.9.4 (Jun 16, 2015)
- Project:
- New welcome screen for new users
- Enable or disable features
- Test plan:
- Copy checklists/ checks
- Test run:
- Illegal characters such as '%' are removed from the test protocol file name
- Summaries:
- Open issues list - jump to test run sets filter to 'open issues'
New in Quality Spy 1.3.8 (Jun 16, 2015)
- Test Protocol - Slides Mode:
- The test protocol can now be viewed in slides mode
- Test Protocol - Improved List View:
- Also the list view was improved. It now has a cleaner UI and better formatting
- Minor Features:
- 0000175 New Shortcuts: F5 and Mousewheel
- 0000108 Show classification color differently
- Bugfixes:
- 0000109 Disable up/down button, if not useful
- 000105 Layout: bad indents
- 0000107 Layout: padding in textboxes
- 0000106 Layout: scrollbar margin
- 0000104 Layout: min window size
New in Quality Spy 1.3.7 (Jun 16, 2015)
- The release 1.3.7.0 ships with various small improvements and bugfixes for the test protocol. Especially the UI change with the new “actions side menu” is instantly visible.
- New Features:
- 0000112 Nicer export menu
- 0000119 Improved delete behavior in protocol
- 0000118 CTRL+Del shortcut in test protocol
- 0000116 CTRL+V – paste image from clipboard also via shortcut
- 0000088 Mantis export: Add note to created issues or custom field to indicate source
- Bugfixes:
- 0000122 Move-up/move-down/delete incorrect in list-view
- 0000113 RTF export incomplete
- 0000111 HTML export incomplete
- 0000096 Mantis export: Export tags
- 0000102 Missing link to website
New in Quality Spy 1.3.6 (Jun 16, 2015)
- New Features:
- Semantic zoom in test protocols
- Headers in test protocols
- New layout for issue classification in test protocols
- Bugs Fixed:
- 0000099 – STE Import doesn’t work
- 0000098 – STE is OS language on start, ignoring language setting
- 0000097 – Crash when exporting an UNSAVED test run to STE
- 0000140 – STE incorrect dirty tracking
New in Quality Spy 1.3.5 (Jun 16, 2015)
- New list view in test protocol editor (alternative to document view)
New in Quality Spy 1.2 (Jul 10, 2013)
- Support for test plan compilations