User Guide Version history Features added to TestArchitect 8.1 Update 1

 What's new in TestArchitect for Windows

What's new in TestArchitect for Windows

The following new features and improvements are introduced in TestArchitect version 8.1 update 1 running on Windows.

• Before upgrading to the latest version of TestArchitect, it is strongly recommended that you back up all repositories.
• A TestArchitect client and any repository server to which it connects must be of the same version.

TestArchitect Client

Enhancements to existing features

• Variation execution: Formerly, when both linked and keyword variations were specified at runtime, TestArchitect required eligible variations with keywords to match the runtime-specified keyword set exactly. Now, TestArchitect accepts variations with subsets of the runtime-specified keyword set.
• Integration with HP Quality Center
  • Version Control within Quality Center is now supported. Particularly, importing Quality Center tests into TestArchitect or uploading TestArchitect test modules/test cases to Quality Center automatically generates versioning information of the item in Quality Center.
• Integration with Microsoft Test Manager: Additional options when executing test cases in Microsoft Test Manager:
  • Screenshot recording: Configure the capturing of screenshots of UI-Interacting actions.
  • Include screenshots: Retain all captured screenshots in the exported HTML test result.
    • Optimized resolution: Included screenshots’ dimensions are optimized to save space in the exported HTML test results. Specifically, the screenshots are saved as thumbnail images.
    • Regular resolution: Original resolution of included screenshots is retained. Specifically, the screenshots are saved as full size images.
• Support viewing new line and horizontal tab characters in the test results.
• In the Select Controller dialog box, each controller is identified by its host name, rather than IP address.

TestArchitect Automation

• Support for Safari iOS and Chrome Android testing: You can now use TestArchitect to create automated GUI and functional tests in the Safari mobile web browser on iOS devices, and in the Google Chrome mobile web browser on Android.

  • Special handling of Javascript popups (applies to Safari on iOS 7 and later, and to Chrome): Due to the manner in which the web browser engines process JavaScript code, modal popup windows produced in a web application with JavaScript cannot be tested in a conventional manner. To address this issue, TestArchitect offers a special set of actions for interfacing with JavaScript popups, including alerts, prompts and confirmation dialogs.

    Action	Description
    click on next popup	Click a specified button in a prompt, alert, or confirmation popup.
    enter text on next popup	Write text to the user-entry field of a prompt popup, then click OK.
    get popup message	Retrieve the messages of one or more recent confirmation, prompt, or alert popups.
    get popup default text	Retrieve the default text of the user-entry field of one or more recent prompt popups.
    check popup message	Check the message strings displayed by one or more popups (confirmation, prompt, or alert) against the respective expected messages. Result is Passed if all values match; otherwise Failed.
    check popup default text	Check the default text of the user-entry fields of one or more prompt popups against their respective expected values. Result is Passed if all values match; otherwise Failed.
    clear popup queue	Clear any remaining actions from the popup-handler queue, and clear the popup history buffer.

• submit form (built-in action): Submit the form to which the given HTML control belongs.

• Special character functions: To allow your test procedures to include special symbols and non-printing characters in expressions, the following general-purpose expression function has been added:

  • #char(code): Return a Unicode character based on its decimal code. As an added convenience, the following two special purpose functions may be used for two of the most common non-printing characters:

  • #newline(): Return a special character signifying the end of a line of text.

  • #tab(): Return a horizontal tab character.

• ignore tabs and newlines (built-in setting): During string comparisons, ignore horizontal tabs and newlines.

Enhancements to existing features

• get device information built-in action: An additional argument, unique id, is provided to retrieve a unique ID for the target test device.