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.

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.

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.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed minor issues related to the upgrade process.

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. 

Bug Fixes:

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

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.

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.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue regarding the SecureSet action.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed minor issues related to the upgrade process.

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.

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

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed minor issues related to upgrade.

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.

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 New Objects 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.  

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.

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.

• Performance and stability improvements.

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.

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 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, Troubleshooting section, and so on.

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. 

Bug Fixes

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

Bug Fixes

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

Bug Fixes

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

Bug Fixes

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

Bug Fixes

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.