Test Run

So I have been working on a number of features requested by potential customers - oh the lengths I will go to to try and get someone to actually pay for the services! (It really is worth paying for honest!) One customer I have been corresponding with really admired the use of tags within Test Run and how they facilitated their filtering cases. However, they still found tags inadequate for searching test cases and asked if there was a way to offer a full-text search allowing users to find test cases by text found in the summary, detailed description, the notes and more.

A quick search on Google revealed that thanks to Lucene the feature is relatively easy to implement. So, a quick download of the PHP Zend Framework and presto: full text search is done.

I would have released the feature a while ago, but thanks to some issues with executing PHP from the command line it took a little longer than I anticipated to index all of the thousands and thousands of cases stored in Test Run. But I was finally able to get 100% of the test cases indexed and so search is now available online.

It may take a while for me to document the process to enable full text search, so users of the downloadable version will need to be patient while I wrap a few things up. In the meantime, users of the hosted version of Test Run can begin using full text search right away.

We have been hard at work this week making a number of small improvements to Test Run, and one big one. A number of customers have been expressing the desire to have more control over the order in which they execute their test cases. Until now Test Run always ordered test cases in reverse chronological order. What made this challenging for many users was the fact that some testing requires test cases to be executing in a very specific sequence. So to address their concern we implemented the feature to allow test planners the ability to order test cases however they see fit.

When we designed and developed this feature we wanted to make the process as intuitive and as simple as possible, allowing test planners to drag and drop test cases in what ever order they choose. We could tell you more about this feature, but I think it much better to see it in action.