The new year is upon us, and we’re excited to announce our latest update to the Original Software platform.
Our new release, titled Dawn, is now available to download from our customer support site. Dawn introduces a new, simplified user interface right across our testing platform: a cleaner look and major improvement to user experience, while also bringing in some great new features for Test Management, Manual Testing and Test Automation.
We’ve reimagined our result viewer based on user feedback, with a faster, simplified user experience that gives greater focus to your key metrics.
In Manual Testing, we’re excited to announce a great new feature: Test Guidance. This really strengthens our support for new employees or those new to UAT. Building on our Test Steps, Test Guidance shows your users how to perform the test, action by action.
Test Guidance has also been rolled out in our Automation solution, helping users creating new automation as they can now see the actions performed by a manual tester, giving greater understanding into the goal of the manual test, and the ability to ignore any mis-steps made during manual execution. All this should result in better Automation for you 💪🤖
Read on for some more release highlights, and hit the button at the bottom to get the full release notes and to download the latest platform version 😊
Dawn Release Highlights – Jan 2025
Test Management
- New Result Viewer: simplified design enhances visibility of key metrics and easier interpretation of results
- Calculated fields can now be added to e-mail templates.
- SSO (Single Sign On) support of LDAPS now available. In admin, there is now a tick box if the user wishes to support LDAPS.
- New ‘Last Comment Only’ field in e-mail templates for entities that have comments
- Test step creation improvement: you are now able to paste into test steps i.e. Multiple columns from excel spreadsheet
- Manual tests can now use multiple test cases: we’ve added the ability to run manual testing across one or more Test Tasks/Scenario Tasks
Manual Testing
- New Test Guidance: A Guidance tab is now available when running a manual test. This allows you to see what a standard test will look like screen for screen. The guidance can also be animated which shows a ‘Playback only’ version of the Animation Editor
- New Screen analysis option
- Any screen at the top of the steps can now access the update menu, saving you from having to switch tabs
Test Automation
- Test Guidance: In automation mode, when user is recording a new script, there is a new ‘Guidance’ tab
- The phones/platforms supported have been updated for emulation.
- The ability to maintain an application screen ID.
- Improved visual indication when automation is busy, and feedback for user to wait in the recording sidebar
- Ability to include new items in post playback emails from automation runs
- Improved error handling: simplified IF statements now available to better support non-technical users.
