Qualitia Automation Studio 8.0.0 Beta Release

Taking another step towards our goal of making test automation faster, simpler and more reliable, we are proud to announce the release of Qualitia Automation Studio- 8.0.0 Beta.

Qualitia Automation Studio Recorder

Now record operations performed on the application under test and convert them into ready-to-execute automation test cases.

How Does It Help?

Faster Automation: Users do not need to worry about writing test cases manually. The object identification also happens during the recording process itself. The whole process of automation becomes considerably faster, thereby significantly reducing time-to-market.
Easy-to-use: The recording of a test case happens while the application under test is being used. Any user with less or no knowledge of automation can use this feature to record ready-to-execute automation test cases.
Lesser Manual Error: By eliminating the need to write test cases manually, Qualitia ensures that the test cases are less prone to manual error.
Validate the Test Cases: The user can validate the automation test cases by replaying the recording.

For more information, refer to https://qualitia.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/QAS80/pages/1718945562/Recording+a+Test+Case+using+Qualitia+Automation+Studio+Recorder .

Real-time Reporting

Get suite execution results in real-time. There is no longer a need to wait for the entire suite to complete execution. Our real-time reporting portal shows the execution results of multiple suites being executed in parallel by CI tools.

How Does it Help?

Reduced Wait-time for Analysis: The automation cycle is often delayed because execution results of long-running test suites with multiple test cases is only available when the entire execution is complete. Qualitia provides real-time reports for each test case immediately. Now analyse defects/failures as soon as the test case is executed.
Compatibility with Browsers: Our real-time execution results can be seen across all widely used Web browsers.
Storage of Screenshots and Logs: Capture, compress, and store screenshots and logs associated with test executions, so that they can be stored and transmitted.
Pinpoint the Failures with Analysis: Traverse through the execution results to find and analyze points of failures and defects. This makes it easy to understand and troubleshoot issues efficiently.

For more information, refer to https://qualitia.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/QAS80/pages/1718948425/Real+Time+Reporting+Portal .

Executions on Remote and Cloud Environment through Qualitia Client

In addition to executing test cases on remote and cloud environments using the offline package, you can now execute test cases on remote and cloud environments right from the Qualitia Client.

Qualitia supports the following cloud environments:

Saucelabs
Browserstack
Perfecto
Testobject

For more information, refer to https://qualitia.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/QAS80/pages/1718950383/Supported+Environments+and+Guidelines .

Execution Profile

An execution profile lets you define a set of configuration settings for test suite executions. You can add multiple execution profiles with a different combinations of configuration settings for different environments.
Having execution profiles in place saves you a lot of time that you spent on changing the configuration settings for every execution manually.

For example, earlier even to switch to another browser for a test suite execution you had to manually change the settings. Now you can create multiple execution profiles for different browsers and simply select the one that you want to use during test suite execution.

For more information, refer to https://qualitia.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/QAS80/pages/1718946044/Working+with+Execution+Profiles.

Configuration Settings

You can now configure settings on project level depending on the project requirements. This comes handy in situations where you can choose whether or not you want to integrate your project with version control tools, such as GIT or SVN.

For more information, refer to https://qualitia.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/QAS80/pages/1718946327/Configuring+Qualitia+Settings .

Offline Configuration Utility

The Offline Package now includes the Offline Configuration Utility, which makes changing configuration settings for offline execution and offline package execution very easy. You are no longer dependent on the CLI command extension tools to modify configuration settings or execute the offline packages.
Additionally, if the offline package is configured and connected with the Qualitia Server during execution, you can track the suite executions in the Real Time Reporting Portal.

For more information, refer to https://qualitia.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/QAS80/pages/1718949771/Offline+Package.

Server Upgrade Process

If you upgrade to Qualitia 8.x.x from a previous version, if a few projects fail, you are required to only restore the backups of the failed projects. The Upgrade program is now enhanced to save your time by not having you to restore the passed projects.

For more information, refer to https://qualitia.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/QAS80/pages/1718944537/Upgrading+Qualitia+Server+and+Client.

Healthcheck utility

This release introduces the Health-Check utility that lets you check the health of the Qualitia Server and Qualitia Client components. The Health-check utility can perform both the pre-installation and post-installation checks.

Pre-installation checks: Verifies if your computer meets the minimum system requirements to install the Qualitia Server or the Qualitia Client.
Post-installation checks: Verifies if all the components of the Qualitia Server or the Qualitia Client are installed and functioning properly.

For more information, refer to https://qualitia.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/QAS80/pages/1718944330/Qualitia+Healthcheck+Utility.

Dropped features

The following features have been dropped in this release:

Debugging is not supported.
Student Edition is discontinued.
Integration with Defect Management system is unavailable.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

The following are the details of bug fixes and enhancements made in this release:

Even if you do not specify browser driver path, Qualitia would install and download the browser driver path while execution.
Every Qualitia Client is bundled with Appium for mobile application testing.
During a hybrid test case execution, you can switch from native environment to a web page view using a single Mobile.StoreWebViewHandle action. Earlier, to do this, you had to use the following two actions in the sequence listed:
- Mobile.StoreWebViewHandle
- Mobile.SelectWebView

Known Issues

The following are the known issues in Qualitia Automation Studio 8.0 Beta release.

Qualitia Automation Studio Recorder

Qualitia Web Recorder

The Pause/Resume and Stop button do not work from the Qualitia Editor. As a workaround, use the Pause/Resume and Stop buttons of the Qualitia Web Recorder to pause or resume, or to stop the recording.
Qualitia Web Recorder may sometimes not record the objects on a popup. To work around this issue, verify if the steps are recorded, if not, try recording them again.
By design, the recorder does not start until all the objects on a web page are loaded. Ensure that all the objects on a web page are loaded before you start recording.
Recording keyboard interactions are not supported in this release. As a workaround, you must add such steps manually in the Qualitia Editor.
Recording objects on Windows dialog boxes, such as downloading or uploading files, or entering user credentials, is not supported in this release. As a workaround, add these steps manually in the Qualitia Editor.
While recording a web application, if you press Alt+Tab from the keyboard, it is added as Alt+Left in the parameter. You must remove such unnecessary steps captured by the recorder in the Qualitia Editor.
While recording a web application, if you update the URL in the address bar, it is not recorded as a step. You need to enter a step manually with action as OpenURL and add the new URL in the parameter.
Qualitia Web Recorder does not support Shadow DOM.
While recording a web application, if you click the play or pause button of a video, it is not recorded as a step. As a workaround, you must add these elements manually in the Qualitia Editor.
Qualitia does not recommend using the recorder during dry runs. However, if you do so you may face issues and see unexpected results.
While recording a web action, if you click Back and Forward buttons, they are not recorded as steps. You need to enter steps manually with actions as NavigateBack and NavigateForward.
While recording a web application, alert actions are not recorded. You must add these actions manually in the Qualitia Editor.

Qualitia Mobile Recorder

The Pause/Resume and Stop button do not work from the Qualitia Editor. As a workaround, use the Pause/Resume and Stop buttons of the Qualitia Mobile Recorder to pause or resume, or to stop the recording.
While recording a mobile application, if you disconnect a physical mobile device, the application session continues. To work around this issue, restart the agent and reconnect the mobile device to start recording.
You cannot record ClearText messages on iOS devices. You must add such actions manually in the Qualitia Editor.
While recording an iOS application, if you click the keys of the soft keyboard, every keystroke is recorded as a step. You must not use the soft keyboard to enter values, use SetText mode to enter the values. To clear the texts, you must pause the recording session and use soft keyboard to remove the text from the mobile.
Unable to connect to a device intermittently. To work around this issue, restart the recording session.
When recording a mobile web application on iOS simulator, it opens a blank browser. As a workaround, enter the application URL manually and refresh the browser to fetch the latest objects.
Qualitia Mobile Recorder does not support iOS version 12.0 or above for mobile web recording and web view context of a hybrid application.
Qualitia Mobile Recorder does not support flick gesture. You can use swipe gesture instead of the flick gesture.
Qualitia Mobile recorder does not support entering values on objects from a keyboard. You need to enter values using SetText and ClearText modes.
While recording a mobile web application, if you switch between multiple tabs on a mobile browser, it is not recorded as a step. As a workaround, for the switch window step, you must manually add a step with selectwindowusingurl as the action and the window URL as the parameter.

Reports and Dashboards

Realtime Reporting Known Issues

The Real Time Reporting portal and Reports tab of Qualitia client does not display the test cases executed through TFS/Azure DevOps and HP ALM. Currently, you need to view the associated test suite executions reports in TFS/Azure DevOps and HP ALM only.
While a test suite execution, Qualitia does not display any appropriate alert message if the Qualitia Server does not have the required space. As a result, you might not view the suite execution report.
The Admin needs to monitor the amount of available space in Qualitia Server regularly and remove the reports data that are no longer required from the Server Administration Portal. For more information, refer to Purging the Reports Data.
Qualitia allows you to edit a text for a test case step under the Name/Condition column in the test case editor screen of the Qualitia Client and save the test case. However, after executing the associated test suite, the suite execution report screen displays the original text under the Hierarchy column.
The design of Real time Reporting Portal is not mobile responsive. Therefore, you can expect some UI distortions when viewing the portal through the mobile device having resolution lower than 1100px.
Real Time Reporting portal does not restrict the status bar and log icon moving out of the visible window, which might result in losing them. As a workaround, you have to refresh the report page to display the status bar or log icon.
Due to a known Firefox bug, the Real Time Reporting portal does not display the white borders in table grids in the Firefox.
Export to Excel feature currently does not support export the Qualitia Design Studio related attributes such as Module, Epics and Stories for a QDS enabled project
Real Time Reporting Portal shows the browser version used for test suites executed on mobile web applications intermittently. As a workaround, before a test suite execution, you need to specify the browser version in the Edit Desired Capabilities of the associated execution profile.

Dashboard Known Issues

The Defects logged report and Trends chart would not display any data as Qualitia v8.0.0 Beta does not support Manual nor Auto-defect creation.
The Suite Execution Time statistics chart may show a difference of a second in the Average execution time metric due to rounding of milliseconds to seconds.

Old Qualitia Reports

Export to Excel feature is not available for reports of executions prior to release 8.0.0, that are viewed from the Show Old Reports menu.

Cloud Executions

Perfecto

Desktop web executions are not tested on Macintosh computers.
The mobile native and hybrid application file (i.e. apk/ipa/app file) is not uploaded on Perfecto automatically during the Qualitia Automation Studio executions. Hence, the operation to upload the application file to the Perfecto repository is disabled in this release.
As a workaround, manually upload the application file to Perfecto. For more information, refer to the URL:
https://developers.perfectomobile.com/display/PD/Upload+Item+to+Repository
Note: After you upload the application file to Perfecto, ensure that you set Perfecto lab repository path as the first parameter of the Mobile.OpenApp action. For example, Perfecto lab repository path: "PRIVATE:MyApp.apk".

Sauce Labs

Mobile executions with iOS mobile native and hybrid applications are not tested. iOS application testing on Sauce Labs simulators was not possible due to technical difficulties with Sauce Labs.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.3.6

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where test case artifacts and database are left in inconsistent state due to database connectivity issues in saving a test case.
Fixed an issue where due to adding data in specific date-time formats in test data, the test case was not getting saved.
Fixed an intermittent issue when a test data is saved, a message as “Connection is Not Open” was displayed.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.3.5

Bug Fixes and Enhancements for TFS/Azured DevOps Integration

Enhancements

You can view the screenshots that have failed an are defect steps in TFS/Azure DevOps test results. All you need is to enable the Fail and Defect checkboxes in Qualitia Remote Agent Settings.
For more information, refer to Qualitia Remote Agent Configuration.
Attaching the Qualitia Test results as a ZIP file is now optional, which can be selected in Qualitia Get Assembly task.
For more information, refer to Configure Qualitia-Get Test Assembly Task

Whenever a task is updated, then you can re-publish all the associated test cases with a single click.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug where debug logs for test case iterations were not generated or incorrectly attached in TFS/Azure DevOps.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements in Qualitia Design Studio Integration

Enhancements

The Sync Log file that records the logs of QAS-QDS synchronization is updated daily in a separate log file.

Bug Fixes

Fixed the issue where the unimplemented test cases were not handled correctly when upgrading from Qualitia from v7.2.1 to v7.3.4 .

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.3.4

Bug Fixes

Fixed the issue in which if a test suite execution uses Chrome Object Spy, SmartLocator was unable to auto-correct the locator values for the objects. Also, you can now view the specified and updated locator values for an object by analyzing the associated Info Log from the Test Suite Execution Summary report.
Fixed the issue of Chrome Object Spy in which objects with same parent-child hierarchy across pages were not getting added to the object repository.
Fixed the issue of Object Spy as it was unable to capture and highlight the objects present inside a frame.

Enhancements

You can create auto-defects with custom fields in JIRA.

Qualitia Automation Studio and Qualitia Design Studio Synchronization

When a test case from a QAS project is shared with the linked QDS project, the associated tasks of the test case are also automatically shared with the linked QDS project. Further, for the shared test case, QAS does not allow to edit the associated tasks .

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.3.3

Bug Fixes and Enhancements for TFS/Azured DevOps

Bug Fixes

Fixed a bug related to publishing the test results in parallel executions due to the mismatch of Run Ids
Fixed a bug related to publishing the test results ZIP files during pipeline executions

Enhancements

For every pipeline execution, along with the test results ZIP file, the debug logs files are generated for every test case iteration.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.3.2

Resolved issues relevant to uploading of Test Case Results to TFS/Azure DevOps and Qualitia Server
Fixed minor bugs

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.3.1

Project Migration Enhancement

Improved the test case migration failure scenarios

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.3.0

Enhancements in Working with Test Data and Test Case

Qualitia has improved the user experience tremendously for Test Data usability in Qualitia Test Cases.

Hence, the resultant benefits are:

Working with Test Case and Test Data Explorer simultaneously
Drastic time reduction in loading and saving test case and test data
Aiding in expediting test case creation
Overall, significant improvement in performance and users work efficiency

New Test Data Usability Features

Qualitia has enriched the Test Data explorer capabilities with the following features:

Strong Synchronization between Test Case with Test Data
- Instantly highlights the associated parameter data in Test Data explorer upon clicking a step.
- Instantly enters the same parameters in Test Data explorer upon adding or editing an Action for a step.
Validation of blank data and highlighting them in the red color
Introduction of exporting and importing test data through an excel file
Resizable and movable Test Data explorer

Enhancements in Test Case Editor Screen

Tasks and Conditional Statements Collapsibility

Users can expand and collapse tasks and conditional statements of a test case for better feasibility of managing steps and tasks.

Consolidation of Test Case and Task Condition Columns

The new version merges the columns for defining TC Condition and Task Condition into a single column: Condition.

Highlighting Skipped Tasks and Steps in Green Color

Enable Users in Editing Test Data of Qualitia Bots (Offline Packages)

Users are now equipped in altering test data through an excel file for every test case of a Qualitia Bot test suite. Whenever a Qualitia Bot for a test suite is created, Qualitia publishes test data as excel files for every test case of the Qualitia Bot.

Hence, Qualitia has now removed the dependency of test data modification for Qualitia Bots from Qualitia Automation Studio.

Introducing New Charts in Web-Based Dashboards

Qualitia Automation studio has enhanced its web-based dashboards to analyze the results of the test cases executed through QAS for Web and Mobile, and offline packages. With the introduction of new charts, Qualitia equips managers and testers to get a holistic and comprehensive view of execution results across projects, test suites, and test environments.

For more details, refer to Web-Based dashboards section.

Additional Usability Improvements

XPath Syntax Validation
Easily Manageable Object Hierarchy

Allows to move an object under any parent object or keep it as an independent object.

Resizing Edit Object Window

Allows enlarging the Edit Object window to ease in adding or editing a lengthy locator value for an object.

Mobile Object Spy Enhancements

Introduction of UI Automator

Qualitia has introduced the UiAutomator as a locator type for capturing Android native mobile objects.

Enable SmartLocator for Web Objects

Qualitia has enabled SmartLocator for web objects when spying through Mobile Object Spy. However, during execution, Qualitia applies SmartLocator for Desktop web platform and not with Mobile web platform.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.2.4

Report Enhancements

Publishing the execution end time for each step in the Test Case Summary Report

Bug Fixes

Upon saving a test case, task, and Custom Action, if Qualitia fails to push it into the Source Repository (SVN or GIT), an error message is prompted. This allows the users to verify whether the problem is due to the Source Repository connection, or with their credentials or privileges so that they can rectify the connection issue.
Qualitia project name in the project directory is case sensitive. Whenever there is a mismatch in the case with Project Directory in Source Control Repository (SVN or GIT), an error message is prompted upon opening the project. As a result, unless the users fix the project name in Source Control, Qualitia does not allow them to open the project.

Resolved the Actions related to Verification Existence for objects enabled with SmartLocator

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.2.3

Introducing Search Option while Linking Qualitia Test cases to TFS/Azure DevOps Tests

The search feature allows you to search desired manual test cases from TFS easily while you link Qualitia test cases to the TFS/Azure tests. All you have to do is type in a keyword, and the overlay drop-down lists matching tests. From the results, you can select the desired test case which you want to link with the selected Qualitia test case.

In this section:

Displaying Status of Published Test Cases Linked to TFS/Azure DevOps Tests

You can now view the published time and integration statuses of all the test cases linked to TFS/Azure DevOps tests in the automation studio.

Qualitia displays the details of the linked test cases in the following two screens:

Develop Module > Scenario
Execute Module > Integration Status

Both contain two new columns: Published On and Published Status.

Overriding Qualitia Environment Variables Runtime from TFS/Azure DevOps

Qualitia allows defining environment variables, which you can use while developing test cases with dynamic or frequently changing test artefacts. While executing test cases with TFS/Azure DevOps build and release pipeline, you can now update the values of the environment variables as defined in the automation studio.

To do so, you can use the .runsetting file from the TFS agent.

For the detailed information on how to update environment variable values runtime and its syntax, refer to the TFS/Azure DevOps integration documentation.

Automatically Getting Qualitia Server URL in Remote Agent (TFS/Azure DevOps Integration)

Qualitia now automatically gets the Qualitia Server URL in Qualitia Remote Agent. The information is collected from the build and release pipelines configured under the respective TFS/Azure DevOps project.

Alternatively, users can also update this information manually.

Introducing More Capabilities for Android Mobile Automation Testing

Qualitia has enhanced the automation experience by adding the following capabilities for Android. You can find these capabilities, their expected values, and other related information in the androiddc.properties file under the Qualitia installed location. (%LocalAppData%\QualitiaWDClient\app-x.x.x\WebDriver\config)

mjpegServerPort
adbExecTimeout
clearSystemFiles

If you are upgrading from Qualitia v7.2.x and you have projects integrated with TFS/Azure DevOps, you must republish the test cases after you complete the upgrade process. Also, ensure that you reinstall the latest Qualitia Remote Agents v7.2.3.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed minor issues related to the upgrade process where the automation studio was not getting launched after the upgrade process is completed.
Fixed the exception that used to occur in the Develop module for the TFS/Azure DevOps integrated Qualitia projects.
Fixed the issue where Qualitia was displaying older Manual TC IDs even after they were updated in the databases and XMLs.
Fixed the exception that used to occur while loading the Scenario tree.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.2.2

Installing Qualitia Made Easier

Enrolling Qualitia clients for new users has now become simpler than ever. Qualitia is now ready to be deployed through Configuration Software Management Systems (CSMS) or Group Policy Objects (GPO). It helps in experiencing the seamless Qualitia client installation without requiring administrator access to the system.

For more information on deploying Qualitia as a part of GPO or using CSMS, refer to the Installation Process section.

Bug Fixes:

In the Custom Actions Module:
- Fixed an issue where users were able to update the custom action repository path even after importing custom actions into Qualitia.
- Fixed an issue which was causing a test case failure after upgrading to the latest version of Qualitia automation studio.
- Qualitia was throwing an exception if the project path contains white spaces at the time of launching custom action code in Eclipse with the error File not found. This exception has been handled.
- Handled an exception where custom action with parameter name with an underscore (_) character was not working.
- Handled an exception (Eclipse instance already running) occurring when multiple users on the same VM were trying to open Eclipse to view or edit custom action code.
- Other minor usability issues have been fixed which will make custom action module more robust and comprehensive.
Qualitia administrators were facing difficulties while removing users from projects. This issue has been resolved.
Handled the intermittent issue of Qualitia getting terminated when used the Tab key in Test Data for navigation.
Fixed a performance-related issue where Qualitia was taking more than usual time for creating new projects.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.2.1

Bug Fixes:

Fixed an issue where custom action-related files were not getting deleted from the SVN repository when they were deleted from the local systems.
Optimized Test cases, Tasks, and Objects rendering time in Qualitia Automation Studio.
Fixed an issue where the publishing of test cases integrated with TFS/Azure DevOps was failing in case the user deletes the temp folder. Qualitia automatically creates the temp folder in case it does not exist to store the published version of test cases.
Removed the Custom Action Repository Path field from Qualitia Remote Agent for TFS/Azure DevOps integration as it is no longer required.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.2

Bug Fixes:

Fixed minor issues related to the upgrade process.
Fixed an issue which lead to breaking an alignment of suite execution HTML report when getting an error for any step.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 7.1

Introducing Qualitia Design Studio Integration

Qualitia now offers seamless integration with Qualitia Design Studio. This integration offers a clear understanding of the requirements to automation testers before they start testing the application and helps to develop highly scalable and maintainable test automation design. It eventually gives end-to-end traceability from requirements to manual test cases to automation test cases and to defects found while testing the real-time application.

Using this integration, you can:

Import product requirements from Design Studio to Automation Studio
Implement manual test cases and
Automate these manual test cases with the help of tasks and objects.

You can also send these test cases back to Design Studio for design level updates, in case there are any such requirements.

For detailed information on how to work with these requirements in the automation studio, refer to the Working with Requirements section.

Introducing Web-Based Dashboards

Qualitia’s new Web-based dashboards provide a capability to analyze the results of the test cases executed using Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile and offline packages. These dashboards help managers and testers get a holistic and comprehensive view of execution results across projects, test suites, and test environments.

For more information about accessing and interpreting charts and metrics from the dashboard, refer to the Web-Based Dashboards section.

Introducing Object Spy for Capturing Mobile Application Objects

Qualitia is delighted to introduce object spy to identify and capture objects reliably for mobile application testing. It adds to the current suite of Qualitia's object identification and capturing capabilities. Mobile Object Spy provides a uniform way to capture objects from mobile applications for native and hybrid applications across Android and iOS.

For more information on this, refer to the Object Spy for Mobile Applications section.

Introducing New Way to Handle Custom Actions in Qualitia

Custom actions help Qualitia users to extend testing capabilities by allowing them to add project specific methods while creating automation tasks/test cases. Managing this custom action code in collaboration with other project members is now made simple than ever.

Qualitia now maintains custom action code just like it maintains the tasks and test cases. You can share your custom actions and make them available to other project members so they can leverage the same set of actions while creating tasks/test cases. Project’s integration with version control tools like Bitbucket or SVN makes sharing these actions even more reliable and robust in the cases of multi-user scenario.

Existing Qualitia users can import their custom actions to streamline it with other project data. For more information about working with these custom actions in a new way, refer to the Custom action module section.

Ability to Automatically Add Offline Package Execution Reports to Qualitia

You can now configure Qualitia to automatically sync offline package execution reports to Qualitia Server. This will eliminate the manual process of importing offline package execution results in Qualitia Automation Studio (from Reports section). Importing offline package execution reports automatically in Qualitia server enables to view test execution results from the Web-based dashboards.

In order to sync offline package execution reports, you must first set Share Path under Qualitia Configuration Settings and configure qualitia.properties file accordingly.

Introducing New Web API Actions

Qualitia has enhanced its test coverage by adding few more capabilities into its Web API action’s repository. These actions will help you in automating test cases for REST API services with JSON and XML files. Following is the complete list of new actions which you can leverage for the API testing using Qualitia automation studio.

REST.Response.StoreResponseTime
REST.Response.VerifyResponseTime
REST.Request.SetTimeout
REST.Request.WaitForAttribute
REST.Request.SetFormUrlEncodedParameters
REST.Request.ImportSSLCertificate
JSON.CompareJson

For more information on using these actions and their parameters, refer to the /wiki/spaces/T2/pages/1718948093 section.

Changes in TFS/Azure DevOps Integration

Starting version 6.0, Qualitia offers integration with Microsoft TFS/Azure DevOps. You can now map Qualitia test cases to TFS manual test cases from the Execute section. Execute section is now divided into two different sections; Suite Execution and Integration Status. You can see the Integration Status section only for the projects integrated with TFS/Azure DevOps which helps to link Qualitia test cases to TFS/Azure DevOps manual tests and publish them to run with release or build pipelines.

In TFS/Azure DevOps, test cases linked with Qualitia test cases are labeled as Planned and test cases which are published from Qualitia automation studio are labeled as Automated. Only the published test cases will be considered while executing build and release pipelines.

For more information on how to link and publish test cases, refer to the TFS integration section.

Other Changes

You can now cut/copy/paste multiple steps across tasks and test cases in Qualitia automation studio.
Qualitia gives you a provision to print the customized status and message in the test execution report using the PrintMessageInReport action.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where Qualitia administrator was facing difficulties while creating new role in Qualitia.
While installing or upgrading, Qualitia will now check whether the required .net version is installed. If not installed, Qualitia prompts user about it.
After installing TFS Remote Agent, all the dependency paths will now be pre-populated.
In order to be more comprehensive, Qualitia has made some changes in the parameter names of these actions mentioned below.
- CompareString
- CompareTabularResults
- CompareArray
- VerifyDifference
- VerifyDates

For more information on how to use these actions, refer to the General Web Actions section.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 6.0.2

Bug Fixes:

In some scenarios, Qualitia Web Server service was not getting started post Qualitia Server installation. This issue has been fixed.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 6.0.1

Bug Fixes:

Fixed an alignment issue on Google Chrome browser for the HTML Suite Summary Report generated from Jenkins.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 6.0

TFS/Azure DevOps Integration

Qualitia now offers seamless integration with TFS and Azure DevOps. As a part of this integration, Qualitia replaces manual testing procedures in the application development processes with Qualitia automated test cases. This makes the application development processes robust and simple. This integrated automation platform then allows managing Qualitia automated test cases inside TFS or Azure DevOps.

Using this seamless integration, you can:

Map Qualitia project to TFS project,
Map Qualitia automated test cases to TFS test cases,
Execute Qualitia tests cases locally in TFS/Azure DevOps (using self-hosted agents),
Run Qualitia tests cases as part of your CI (Continuous Integration) pipelines,
Create Defects in TFS/Azure DevOps projects for the test cases that are failed or have defects from Qualitia Automation Studio.

For more information about this integration, refer to the Azure DevOps Advanced Integration section.

New Web API Actions

List of all the actions:

JSON.AddNode	REST.Request.ResetGenericHeaders	REST.GET.ExecuteAPIFormData
JSON.RemoveNode	REST.Request.SetHeaders	REST.POST.ExecuteAPIFormData
JSON.ConvertStringToFile	REST.Request.SetQueryParameters	REST.PUT.ExecuteAPIFormData
JSON.ValidateStringSyntax	REST.Request.ClearQueryParameters	REST.DELETE.ExecuteAPIFormData
ValidateStringSyntaxinFile	REST.Auth.Basic	REST.GET.ExecuteAPIDownloadRawData
JSON.StoreArray	REST.Auth.Digest	REST.PUT.ExecuteAPIDownloadRawData
JSON.StoreAllUniqueKey	REST.Auth.Bearer	REST.POST.ExecuteAPIDownloadRawData
JSON.StoreTotalKeyCount	REST.Auth.JWT	REST.DELETE.ExecuteAPIDownloadRawData
JSON.StoreSpecificKeyCount	REST.GET.ExecuteAPI	REST.Response.StoreStatusCode
JSON.UpdateValue	REST.POST.ExecuteAPI	REST.Response.StoreHeaders
REST.Request.SetGenericHeaders	REST.PUT.ExecuteAPI	REST.Response.VerifyStatus
REST.Request.RemoveGenericHeader	REST.DELETE.ExecuteAPI	REST.Response.VerifyHeaders

For more information on using these actions and their parameters, refer to the /wiki/spaces/T2/pages/1718948093 section.

Introducing Donut Charts & Navigation Controls in Execution Results Report

Qualitia suite execution reports are now enhanced with all new color schemes in order to be more user-friendly and intuitive. The Summary Report will now show the donut chart and help to understand the overall status of the suite at a glance.

Based on the requirements, you can then filter to view the test cases with specific statuses. Additionally, in the Detail Report, you can route through the tasks or steps that are failed or have defects in them using new controls given at the top right corner of the screen. Shortcut keys have also been enabled for this navigation and these can be viewed from the tool-tips available for the controls.

You can show/hide the log section using the control () provided for the purpose.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.6.3

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue which will help Qualitia users to use the latest Appium server for mobile application testing.
Fixed an issue related to the Mobile.Swipe action.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.6.2

We would like to bring to your notice that Qualitia is now compatible with Open JDK. In case you are using Oracle JDK and now you want to shift to the Open JDK, download the Open JDK from here and change the Java 8 install path from Qualitia Configuration Settings.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.6.1

Bug Fixes:

Qualitia will now ask for User ID instead of Username while logging into Qualitia Object Spy using Google Chrome browser.
The information provided about Server URL and User ID is now retained even after you close Qualitia Object Spy. This will speed-up the login process for subsequent login attempts.
Added tunnel identifier support for test case executions behind firewall applications using Sauce Connect. For more information, click here.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.6

Introducing SmartLocator for Objects with Dynamic Elements

Qualitia Object Spy is now enhanced to identify objects with dynamic elements. Its SmartLocator understands changes in object behavior and identifies objects with dynamic elements automatically and corrects the object locator values runtime during test case execution. This makes test case execution of web applications more reliable despite changes in object elements. These updated values are also added into the object repository for future use.

For more information about the SmartLocator feature, refer to Qualitia documentation.

Object Spy for Google Chrome

In addition to the Internet Explorer browser add-in, Qualitia is now delighted to introduce Google Chrome extension of Object Spy. This Object Spy for Google Chrome allows Qualitia users to add and update objects from the application under test. You can easily download and start using this extension from Chrome Web Store.

For more information on how to work with Object Spy on Google Chrome, refer to Qualitia documentation.

Introducing Excel-Based Dashboards

Qualitia is delighted to introduce MS Excel-based Dashboards. These dashboards provide the capability to analyze the results of the Test Cases executed using Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile. These dashboards help product owners, managers, and testers getting a holistic and comprehensive view of Execution Results across Projects, Test Environments, and Business Requirements.

For more information about accessing and interpreting charts and metrics from dashboard, refer to the MS Excel-Based Dashboards section.

Sauce W3C (Beta) Capabilities Support

With the Selenium version 3.11.0 and above, Qualitia now supports the W3C-compliant Selenium capabilities and protocol (Beta) while executing test cases on Sauce Labs. You can use these capabilities simply by setting a few desired capabilities in the sauce.properties file.

For more information on how to use W3C-compliant Selenium capabilities and protocol (Beta), refer to the Test case Executions on Sauce Labs section.

Introducing New Action: StoreDateTimeByZone

A new action has been introduced to store and convert the date and time into different time zones.

For more information about this action and its parameters, refer to Qualitia actions section.

Highlighting Task Headers with Different Colors in Test Data Sheet

Identifying different tasks in Test Data sheet is now simplified by highlighting the task headers in different colors. This makes working with test data more user-friendly and intuitive.

This makes test data more readable and comprehensive.

Bug Fixes:

Disabled changing of the parent object for any existing Qualitia object.
Resolved an error found during the Project Save As operation.
Handled the intermittent issue of error seen on selecting a new window on IE.
Added new desired capability (screenResolution) for executions in the Sauce Labs environment with specific screen resolution. You can find this capability in the sauce.properties file.
Resolved the issue of the report not getting generated if the user directly uses an undefined variable in Qualitia test cases.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.5.2

Introducing MS Excel-Based Dashboards (Beta)

Qualitia has introduced the Beta version of MS Excel-based Dashboards. These dashboards provide the capability to analyze the results of the Test Cases executed using Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile. These dashboards help product owners, managers, and testers getting a holistic and comprehensive view of Execution Results across Projects, Test Environments, and Business Requirements.

For more information about accessing and interpreting charts and metrics from the Dashboard, refer to the MS Excel-Based Dashboards (Beta) section.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.5.1

Introducing New Web Services and File Handling Actions (Beta)

In order to enhance its test coverage, Qualitia has introduced a few Web Service and File handling actions as follows.

REST.ExecuteAPIServiceAndDownloadWithRawData
REST.ExecuteAPIServiceWithRawData
REST.ExecuteAPIServiceWithFormData
File.StoreTextByLineNumber

For more information about using these actions and their parameters, refer to the Web Services actions section.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.5

Enhanced Object Spy

In this release, Qualitia has enhanced the Object Spy. Besides bug fixes, many UI/UX enhancements have been made for making Object Spy more user-friendly and comprehensive. This enhanced version of Object Spy offers better usability features like new keyboard shortcuts for different user actions, better insights and alerts on possible errors faced while adding objects into the repository and so forth.

Extended Support to Add Objects from Modal Dialog

Object Spy can now identify object elements from the modal dialogs. Adding such objects will enable Qualitia users to automate test cases for the application having modal dialogs.

To enable Object Spy for adding objects from the modal dialogs, select Inspect Modal Dialog option from the Object Spy settings.

Bug Fixes:

After you switch Qualitia project in the Develop section, changes made to the tasks and test cases were not pushed to Bitbucket repository immediately. This issue has been fixed.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.4.2

Bug Fixes:

Fixed minor issues related to the upgrade process.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.4.1

Adding Support to Bitbucket Server and Local Git Repositories

Qualitia now supports Bitbucket Server and Local Git Repositories for maintaining Qualitia project artifacts (Tasks and Test cases).

Introducing New Web List Action: StoreItemCount

A new action has been introduced to help Qualitia users to store number of web list items.

For more information about using this action, refer to the Weblist actions section.

Bug Fixes:

Qualita can now handle special characters of JavaScript provided into conditional expression. To handle special characters like double quotes, single quotes, and backslash (",' , \), you must add backslash as an escape character prior to these characters into conditional expression.

For example, if you want to provide conditional expression data as a”b’c\d, you can enter data in as a\”b\’c\\d.

Qualitia automatically handles JavaScript special characters contained into the variable value when such variables are used in conditional expressions.

For more information about this, refer to the Conditional Expression section.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.4

Bitbucket Cloud Integration

Qualitia 5.4 offers integration with Bitbucket (Cloud), a web-based version control system. You can now use Bitbucket repositories to add and maintain your Qualitia project artifacts (Tasks and Test cases). This integration gives you provision to enable multiple Qualitia users to work on the single project. Also, the changes made to the tasks and test cases are automatically added and made available to multiple users at a single time using the web-based central repository.

For more information on using Bitbucket repository, refer to the Bitbucket integration section.

Introducing New Web Services Action: REST.ExecuteAPIService

A new action is added to the Web Services action repository. This action allows enabling or disabling the SSL certificate while executing the web service-related test cases.

For more information about this action, refer to the Web Services actions section.

Other Changes

In Configuration Settings, now you can easily search and select folders while selecting Project Path, Execution Results Path, and so forth.
While creating new tasks/test cases, Qualitia now auto-populates the task/test case details based on the inputs provided for Task/Test Case Name. However, you can modify the task/test case details, if required.
If a user with Project Manager role creates a Qualitia project, superadmin and logged in user automatically gets access to the new project.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.3.8

Bug Fixes:

Fixed an issue which was causing a license related exception while logging in to Qualitia Automation Studio in short intervals.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.3.7

Object Spy Enhancements

Adding Objects using Relative Xpath

Qualitia Object Spy now comes with vastly improved and optimized algorithm to result in a smart and shortest possible XPath while learning objects from the web application. This provides reliable XPath when executing test cases in different test environments.

Introducing Additional Modes to Add Objects

Qualitia Object Spy is now enhanced with additional modes making it more comprehensive and user-friendly for adding objects into the object repository. In addition to the existing Right-Click mode, you can now use Left-Click and Mouse Hover mode to add objects from the application under test.

Left-Click: This mode helps adding objects from the applications where right-click function is not allowed for many web applications for security considerations.
Mouse Hover: This mode helps adding objects just by hovering mouse pointer over the object.

For more information, refer to the Adding objects using Multiple Modes section.

Ability to Select Object Attribute On-the-Fly

You can now, on-the-fly, decide which attribute you want to use while adding object into the repository. In order to do so, right-click the object which you want to add and select Add Object By.

When adding object using the right-click mode, system uses preference set under Locator Priority Settings.

Introducing Inspection Modes

You can now use multiple inspection modes while adding objects from application under test. You can set the inspection mode from the Settings section of Object Spy.

Browser Mode: In this mode, Qualitia identifies objects using the JavaScript events or native events.
Accessibility: Selecting this mode, you can utilize Microsoft Active Accessibility API to identify objects from application under test more reliably.

For more information about changing inspection modes, refer to the Selecting Inspection Modes section.

Ability to Resize Columns on the object Spy Screen

You can now resize the column width on the Object Spy screen based on your requirements. In order to use so, position the mouse pointer over column line and drag the pointer to the desired position.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.3.5

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue regarding the SecureSet action.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.3.3

Ability to Automatically Create Issues in JIRA after Test Suite Execution using Offline Package

Qualitia Bot (erstwhile Qualitia Offline Package) is now enhanced to create issues in JIRA automatically after the test case execution. In order to do so, you must add JIRA related information in Qualitia Configuration Settings before creating Qualitia Bot.

For more information about creating issues in JIRA, click here.

Enhanced Test Data Explorer

Qualitia comes with a built-in test data explorer which helps to add data needed for the test case executions. In this test data explorer, you can now use Filter, Find and Replace functions.

Additionally, the Attach button is now replaced with the save icon ().

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue which led to throwing an exception if user clicks in the test data explorer.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.3.2

Introducing Student Edition of Qualitia

The Student Edition of Qualitia Automation Studio is an educational version of Qualitia Software specifically designed for training purposes. The Student Edition is equipped with all basic capabilities of Qualitia Automation Studio. This offers trainees a completely functional product which can help them quickly learn scriptless test automation and help be prepared to implement it in complex enterprise environments.

For more information about features included in Student Edition, click here.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.3.1

Removed Microsoft Excel Dependency for Test Data Explorer

Qualitia users now no longer need to use Microsoft Excel to add or update test data when working with multiple iterations of Test cases. Qualitia’s new interface for adding test data inherits a few functionalities of Microsoft Excel and helps in adding/updating test data more conveniently.

For more information about adding or updating test data, click here.

Important Notice

This dependency is removed for adding or updating test data only. In case you want export test execution reports and dashboard data or view the Project Save As report, you still need Microsoft Excel.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.3

Introducing Support for Web Services

Qualitia has enhanced its test coverage by adding few more capabilities into its action repository. These actions will help you in automating test cases for XMLs, JSONs, and SOAP and REST services. Following is the complete list of new actions.

XML	XML.UpdateNodeValue	XML.StoreNodeValue
	XML.StoreAttributeValue	XML.StoreNodeCount
	XML.VerifyIfNodeExists	XML.VerifyIfAttributeExists
	XML.UpdateAttributeValue	XML.StoreEvaluatedXPathResult
JSON	JSON.StoreValue	JSON.UpdateValue
	JSON.StoreJsonPathCount
REST	REST.ExecuteServiceRequest
SOAP	SOAP.ExecuteService

For more information about these actions and their parameters, refer to the /wiki/spaces/T2/pages/1718948093 section.

Introducing Support for Test Executions in Perfecto Environment

You can now execute Web and Mobile application test cases from your Qualitia offline packages using Perfecto’s Environment. To do so, you must configure your offline package accordingly.

For more information on how to configure the offline package to execute test cases in Perfecto’s environment, refer to the Executions on Perfecto section from Qualitia documentation.

Introducing Support for Test Executions on Sauce Labs Real Devices (aka TestObject)

You can now execute mobile application test cases from your Qualitia offline packages using Sauce Labs Real Devices. To do so, you must configure your offline package accordingly.

For more information on configuring the offline package to execute test cases using Sauce Labs Real Devices, refer to the Executions on Sauce Labs Real Devices section from Qualitia documentation.

Introducing Integration with HP ALM

Qualitia is now enhanced to integrate with HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). This integration helps in linking Qualitia test cases to ALM test cases and export Test Suites from Qualitia to ALM. You can also view and manage reports for test case executions from ALM itself.

For more information about linking your test cases to ALM test cases, refer to the ALM Integration section from Qualitia documentation.

Ability to Upload Files from Local Directory during Web Application Testing in Remote and Cloud Environments

You can now use the AttachFile action to upload files from the local directory when executing test cases in cloud and remote environments as well.

For detailed information about using this action, refer to the AttachFile action documentation.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.2.5

Bug Fixes:

The ClosePopUpBrowser action was not working in some circumstances. This issue has been fixed.
Changes made to the objects from Qualitia were not reflecting on the Object Spy window. Also, few properties like URL, title and so forth were not visible after renaming objects from Qualitia.
These issues have been fixed.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.2.4

Bug Fixes:

Fixed minor issues related to the upgrade process.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.2.3

Bug Fixes:

The Test Data attachment process was taking a long time. This issue has been fixed and data for the hundreds of iterations can now be attached within a minute.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.2.2

Enhanced Object Spy introducing support for document mode 5 and above.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.2.1

Bug Fixes:

Fixed minor issues related to upgrade.

Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.2.0

What's new in Qualitia Automation Studio for Web and Mobile 5.2.0

Introducing Support for JVM Properties

You can now use JVM system properties when executing Qualitia test cases.

For more information on about using these properties, refer to the Adding JVM Properties section.

Introducing New Actions for Web Application Testing

Qualitia has added a new set of actions into its action repository. These actions can be used while developing test cases for Web applications. For the complete list of supported actions, refer to the Web Actions section.

Following is the complete list of new actions which are added with this release.

New General Actions
SetPageLoadTimeout	StorePageSource	StoreWindowHandleAtIndex	SelectFrameByIndexWhenAvailable
WaitForNumberOfWindowsToBe	SetWindowSize	StoreWindowSize	WaitForJavaScriptReturnsValue
StoreWindowPosition	SetWindowPosition	SetFullScreen	WaitForJavaScriptThrowsNoExceptions
ClickAndHold	DoubleClick	RightClick	WaitForAlertAndSpecifyBehavior
WaitForTitleContains	WaitForTitleNotContains	WaitForTitleToBe	WaitForTitleNotToBe
WaitForURLContains	WaitForURLNotContains	WaitForURLToBe	WaitForURLNotToBe
WaitForURLPattern	WaitForAlertAndSendText
For the detailed information on using these actions in Qualitia, refer to the General Web Actions section.

New Object-Based Actions (available for all object classes)
StoreText	StoreLocation	StoreCSSProperty	StoreSize	WaitForVisibility
SendKeySequence	SetValueAttribute	StoreValueAttribute	WaitForStaleness	WaitForInnerTextToBe
WaitForAttributeContains	WaitForAttributeNotContains	WaitForAttributeToBe	WaitForAttributeNotToBe	WaitForInvisibility
WaitForAttributeNotToBeEmpty	WaitForAttributeToBeEmpty	WaitForClickability	WaitForExistence	WaitForNonClickability
WaitForInnerTextContains	WaitForInnerTextMatchesPattern	WaitForInnerTextNotContains	WaitForInnerTextNotToBe	WaitForChildElement
WaitForNumberOfElementsToBe	WaitForNumberOfElementsToBeLessThan	WaitForNumberOfElementsToBeMoreThan	WaitForNonExistence
For the detailed information on using these actions in Qualitia, refer to the Web Elements Actions section.

Changes on the Configuration Settings Screen

In order to be more user-friendly and comprehensive, Qualitia has updated the Configuration Settings screen with the following changes:

You can now add all the dependencies required for test case execution from the single screen. These dependencies include Project Path, Execution Results Path, AutoIT Install Path, and so forth.
The Platform section allows you to add all the test case execution platform-related settings for Web and Mobile application testing.
Few new options such as Wait Mode, Page Timeout, and so forth, are added to the Execution section.

For detailed information about configuration settings, refer to the Qualitia Configuration Settings section.

Introducing Explicit Wait Mode

Selenium provides two types of waits: Explicit and Implicit. In order to optimize performance while executing test cases, you can now select the Wait Mode based on your requirements from the Configuration Settings (Execution) screen. For more information about this, refer to the Qualitia Configuration Settings section.

Additionally, in Explicit Wait, you can use Timeout and Polling Intervals when developing test cases. These capabilities help you in optimizing the performance and building robust Qualitia test cases. For more information about how to work with timeout and polling interval, click here.

Introducing Object-based Polling Intervals and Timeout

You can now add Timeout and Polling Intervals for each object separately when adding objects into Qualitia object repository. These inputs will be considered only when selecting Explicit Wait Mode from the Configuration Settings (Execution) screen.

For more information about adding polling intervals and timeout, refer to the Adding an Object section.

Ability to Specify Grid Platform in Selenium Grid Executions

Qualitia provides you the ability to execute your test cases using Selenium Grid. You can specify the GridPlatform in the qualitia.properties file from the Config folder of Qualitia Offline Package. When not specified, hub takes any available node and continues execution.

Quick Search for Actions

You can now search actions when selecting them on the Test Cases and Tasks screen. Start typing the action name and the list will be filtered based on the entered characters.

Deprecated Actions

You will find some actions listed in strikethrough (~~strike~~) text in purple on the Test Cases and Tasks screens. We recommend not to use these actions when developing a new test case as there are better options available now for the same operation. While these actions will continue to work in this release, they might be taken away in future releases with appropriate migration methods.

In case you execute your test cases with the deprecated actions, you will find these actions in the strikethrough (~~strike~~) text in the test execution reports as well.

For the complete list of deprecated actions, refer to the Deprecated Actions section.

Change in Nomenclature

Business Rule is now renamed to Acceptance Criteria. All the references to Acceptance Criteria should be meant as Business Rules.

Qualitia for Web and Mobile 5.1.0

Auto-populating Test Cases

Qualitia can now automatically populate test cases for business rules. This saves time and helps you to create and implement test cases with a single-click after you synchronize stories from Qualitia Design Studio.

For more information on this, please refer to the Auto-populating Test Cases section.

Qualitia for Web and Mobile 5.0.3

Ability to Auto-Create Issues in JIRA for Defects in Test Cases

Qualitia is now enhanced to automatically create issues in Atlassian JIRA after suite execution. This feature;

enables Qualitia users to efficiently use Atlassian JIRA integration with Qualitia Automation Studio and
eliminates the need for manually search and create issues in JIRA for each defect separately.

Qualitia for Web and Mobile 5.0.2

Performance and stability improvements.

Qualitia for Web and Mobile 5.0.1

What's New in 5.0.1

You can now create objects on-the-fly from the Test Cases / Requirements and Tasks screen.
The Locator Priority Settings precedence in Qualitia Object Spy is updated. Qualitia now does not use ID attribute when inspecting objects by XPath.
For more information about this, please refer to the Object Spy section.

Bug Fixes

Following functionalities are now supported in Qualitia when working with projects integrated with Qualitia Design Studio.

Changing tasks sequence inside an activity.
Moving tasks inside an activity.
Deleting epics, stories, business rules, and activities.

Qualitia for Web and Mobile 5.0.0

Integration with Qualitia Design Studio

Qualitia Design Studio is introduced for effective communication between business analysts and test management personnel. Using Qualitia Design Studio, a business analyst can design requirements in JIRA and test analyst can import these requirements in Qualitia Automation Studio.

This version of Qualitia allows users to integrate the requirements created in Design Studio into the Automation Studio. Once the requirements are synchronized, you can create and execute test cases based on the requirements. For more information about working with requirements in Qualitia Automation Studio, please refer to the Working with Requirements for QDS Integrated Projects section

Introducing Canned Reports

In addition to the normal Suite execution reports, Qualitia users can now generate canned reports from the Reports tab. These reports can be generated for the projects integrated with Qualitia Design Studio. For more information about this, please refer to the Generating Canned Reports section.

Ability to View Steps inside Activities

On the Requirements screen, a button is introduced at the bottom to view the existing steps (if any). You can refer to these steps when preparing test cases in the Automation Studio.

Enhanced Documentation

In order to be more comprehensive and user-friendly, Qualitia is introducing more training material on how to use Qualitia effectively for application testing. This material includes Training Videos, Knowledge Base Articles, /wiki/spaces/T2/pages/1381635712, and so on.

Qualitia for Web and Mobile 4.1.6

Bug Fixes

Fixed data reader issue when working with Qualitia using slow network connections.
Fixed an issue which led to Qualitia crashing in some circumstances when clipboard actions were used.

Qualitia for Web and Mobile 4.1.5

Bug Fixes

Fixed a rare crash while copy-pasting test case or task steps accessing Qualitia remotely.

Qualitia for Web and Mobile 4.1.4

Bug Fixes

Some test cases were not getting loaded on the Test Cases screen. This issue has been fixed.

Qualitia for Web and Mobile 4.1.3

Bug Fixes

On the Admin tab, Qualitia was failing with error "Failed to load users" which has been fixed.

Qualitia for Web and Mobile 4.1.2

Bug Fixes

Qualitia performs incredibly slow when installed on Virtual Machines (VM).

Qualitia for Web and Mobile 4.1.1

Bug Fixes

Displaying the list of tasks in alphabetical order on the Tasks (in the Tasks pane) and Test cases(when clicking Import) screens.

Qualitia for Web and Mobile 4.1.0

Ability to Automate Mobile Native, Web, and Hybrid Application Tests

Using Qualitia, you can now automate Android and iOS Mobile (Native, Web and Hybrid) application testing.

Executing Test Cases on Mobile Devices

You can use Qualitia to create and automate test cases on emulators, simulators or Android or iOS physical devices.

Object Type Search

In order to easily identify Qualitia class of the objects being added from the mobile application under test, Qualitia users can now use the class details displayed in the Appium inspector or UIAutomatorViewer. Once class details are added, click the search icon and Qualitia automatically selects the mapped universal class from the drop-down list.

Introducing Next Generation Installer

Qualitia is introducing a next generation installer that automatically handles updates and upgrades to Qualitia Software.

Introducing Online Help

In order to be more comprehensive and user-friendly, Qualitia is introducing Online Help documentation. Qualitia users can now conveniently search for the required information when working with Qualitia.

Support for Bamboo Continuous Integration Tool

Along with Jenkins and TeamCity, Qualitia now supports Bamboo CI tool.

Testing Desktop Web Applications on BrowserStack

You can now use BrowserStack testing environment to execute your Qualitia Offline Package. BrowserStack is a cloud-based cross-browser testing environment that enables testing websites across various browsers on various operating systems without requiring users to install virtual machines.

Testing Mobile Web and Native Applications on Sauce Labs

In addition to Desktop Web applications, you can now use Emulators and Simulators to test Mobile applications on the Sauce Labs environment.

MYSQL 5.6 and 5.7 Support

Qualitia now supports MYSQL 5.6 and 5.7.

SVN 1.9 Support

Qualitia now supports SVN 1.9.

Other Product Enhancements

SVN optimizations during test case and task creation will allow adding new step faster than the previous versions of Qualitia.
In case of any fatal error, the test case will now fail faster with an appropriate user-friendly communicative message, without executing unnecessary test case or task steps.
Once new Test Case, Task, or Object is created, Qualitia will highlight the same in the left pane scrolling to the newly added Test Case, Task, or Object. This will save Qualitia users time to manually search and validate the newly created Test Case, Task, or Object in the left pane.
The operations like saving and loading Test Cases, Tasks, and Objects have been optimized especially for multi-user scenarios and when cloud-based Qualitia server is used.
In case Qualitia takes more than usual time to load the requested screen, an appropriate update status is displayed.
Qualitia is now moved to .NET Framework 4.5 in order to utilize latest features and improvements.
You no longer need to restart Qualitia once Configuration Settings are updated. You need to restart Qualitia only when Project Path, Database Server, or SVN related details are updated.
When working with Configuration Settings window, if user is missing to provide details of any mandatory field, Qualitia highlights such fields with red color for easy identification with appropriate comprehensive message.

Qualitia for Selenium v3.14

Addition of Execution Time information in QER properties file

Time taken to execute Offline package is now available in the QER properties file. This information now can be used in email notifications sent by Jenkins provided relevant settings are done in Jenkins.

Write Customized Information to QER Properties File

Qualitia users can now write their own set of properties with its value to qer.properties file. This is achieved through a new action “WriteToBuildProperty”. This customized information can be used in email notifications sent by Jenkins provided relevant settings are done in Jenkins.

Qualitia for Selenium v3.13

Data Loss Issue – Resolved

With the high network latency, Qualitia’s save operation was not as expected. It used to end with error(s) and unsuccessful save for latest changes. The issue is resolved now showing a user-friendly message to the user which will again prompt the user to save his/her changes in case of high network latency.

Qualitia for Selenium v3.12

Report Issue In case of Long Test Case Name - Resolved

The issue was seen with long test case names due to which the captured screenshots were not displayed/saved in Qualitia reports. This issue has been resolved in this release.

Support for Selenium 3.0

Support for Selenium 3.0 (selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta3.jar) is enabled in this release.

Qualitia for Selenium v3.11

Enhanced Qualitia Debugger

The following is the list of enhancements done in Qualitia Debugger:

You can now modify test steps while debugging
- Modify test step data on the go.
- Modify a Qualitia object’s locator type and value.
Change log view to review all the steps that were modified during debugging. You can also copy the step that is changed and paste it in the Qualitia test case development view.

Introducing Skip Feature

The Skip feature facilitates skipping the task(s) or step(s) from test case execution. Following are the key features of the Skip feature:

Ability to skip one or more steps and task instances within a test case from test case development view. The skipped steps and tasks are excluded during the test case execution.
Maintain the skipped state of the tasks/steps for all respective users of the test cases.
Ability to unskip the skipped tasks/steps from test case development view.

Comment

The Comment feature facilitates maintaining a note of information with a step/task. Following are the key features of the Comment feature:

Ability to add a note of information about a step/task during test case development view as well as from task view. These added comments can also be modified and deleted.
The comments are maintained for all the users of that test case.
Comments can also be maintained in Debugger, however, comments added/modified/deleted from debugger do not reflect in the test case development view directly.

Licensing

Qualitia for Selenium will now be license protected. For more information, please refer to the Qualitia Licensing Guide.

Introducing Shortcut key to Hide the Object Spy Add-in

Qualitia users can now hide/unhide the Object Spy add-in using SHIFT+Ctrl+F4.

Qualitia for Selenium v3.10

Introducing Qualitia Debugger

Qualitia for Selenium supports debugging your Qualitia test cases. Qualitia users can debug test cases without having to execute them completely. Following are the key features of Qualitia Debugger:

Step by step execution of any test case.
Ability to analyze what has failed and why.
Visualize data for Task and TC iterations.
Add breakpoints to pause and execute steps one by one.
Analyze every failure by auto-pausing executions on failure steps.

Introducing JIRA Integration

JIRA Integration facilitates importing information from Qualitia reports when creating an issue in JIRA. Following are the key features of JIRA Integration:

Facility to specify JIRA credential for the user.
Direct integration with JIRA to report an issue in JIRA using the specified credentials only.
Ability to log an issue while analyzing QTEReport.
Ability to attach corresponding Qualitia TestReport in JIRA.

Improvements in Installer

In order to eliminate additional configurations post-installations, Qualitia installer will now perform the pre-requisite checks before installing Qualitia.

Qualitia for Selenium v3.9.6

Introduced "FailStepOnBrowserScreenshotFailure" key in the Offline's Qualitia.Properties File

Setting the key to 'true' will fail the current test step when it fails to capture a screenshot of the browser when an alert exists on an application under test and vice versa.

Offline Execution on Remote and Sauce Labs

Qualitia now supports execution of Offline Package on remote and Sauce Labs environments. This feature gives a provision to trigger execution of an offline package on any other machine in the network or then on a remote VM in Sauce Labs testing environment.

Performance Optimization for Qualitia's Detailed Report Page

Time to open detailed page of a Qualitia Test Execution Report has now been optimized. Rendering through the detailed report page will now take comparatively lesser time.

Qualitia for Selenium v3.9.4

Execution Highlight

Qualitia will now highlight the object being acted upon during test case execution. Though this feature is purely experimental as it might not work in all situations, it is still very helpful to know which object on the screen is being worked upon.

Add Object from HTML Code View

Now add objects to your repository from the Qualitia Object Spy HTML view.

WebFile - a New Object Type

Qualitia now introduces a new Object type called 'WebFile' along with its corresponding actions. You can now learn/add objects of the 'WebFile' type (that is HTML input type=file) and use the AttachFile action against this object.

Few Generic Actions Mapped to Corresponding Object Classes

Following actions are now available against some Qualitia objects types.

DownloadFile
StoreChildCount
AttachFile
SelectFrame

Database Password Encryption

Qualitia now encrypts the DB server (the MYSQL Server/SQL Server used to maintain Qualitia's database) password on the Configuration Settings window. Hence the password is now secured.

Qualitia for Selenium v3.9.3

Support for MYSQL 5.6 and 5.7 on Windows and Linux

Qualitia now supports MYSQL which is 5.6 and 5.7 on both, Windows and Linux. This allows users to install Qualitia-Server with the latest versions of MySQL on the OS of their choice.

Note: My SQL 5.1 is no longer supported from this version (Qualitia v3.9.3).

Offline Execution now supported on Linux and Mac

You can now execute tests on Linux (browsers supported: Firefox and Chrome) and Mac (browsers supported: Safari, Firefox and Chrome) - Qualitia now also supports headless executions on Linux.

Note: Test cases containing steps that require file paths will need changes to ensure successful execution. For example, a Windows path will not run on Linux or Mac. A suitable path will be needed to execute.

Multiple parallel executions on the same system

Qualitia users can now execute multiple test suites on the same box in parallel and thus save total execution time.

Note: Test cases containing steps like Press Keys, Upload and download cannot support parallel execution on the same system. They can still be executed in parallel on different systems.

Browser-based Screen Capture

Qualitia now captures browser screenshots using this newly introduced screen capture mode. This allows users to capture screens regardless of the browser is the active screen. It also helps capture execution screen shots during parallel executions.

Note: Unless you are using parallel executions on the same system, we recommend that you use Desktop-based screen capture, which is the default screen capture mode.

Performance Improvements

Qualitia report generation now is 2x faster and more efficient.

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