[ptt-users] TestMaker 5.1 Release Candidate 1 Now Available

[Frank Cohen]

Dear TestMaker Users:

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 your feedback  
on the changes. We anticipate making 2 additional release candidates  
to solve bugs and make additional improvements. Please post your  
issues to this email list (users at lists.pushtotest.com.) 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  
<delayBetweenStartingUseCases> element in a TestScenario. The element  
was incorrectly named<delayBetweenStartingUseCasses> (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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Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 871 0122
TestMaker open-source test automation