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A preview of our new web site...

We have been hard at work gearing up for our upcoming launch of Test Run 1.2. An important piece of this relaunch is to take a fresh look at everything and figure out if there is a way we could do it better.

This weekend was time for us to look at our homepage in a new light. We love, love, love the work our partners Mule did when we launched, but we felt we could do a much better job of communicating Test Run's value, as well as help them to choose the plan that is right for them. So we took a swag at the homepage and the pricing page and want to hear what you think.

Homepage

Homepage v2

Pricing Page

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We drew our inspiration from products we love and products we feel do an excellent job with their homepage, including:

Making use of "Products" in Test Run: Hierarchies anyone?

Customers frequently ask if Test Run could one day in the future support hierarchical test cases. It is a feature that is definitely on the roadmap, but its implementation would be pretty hairy, so I have honestly been putting it off. But it occurred to me that the feature may already exist in a latent form.

If you have used Test Run than you are familiar with a "Product" property associated with test cases. It is a property I added, but I never developed any *features* around because it was clear that some form of test case segmentation was needed, but it was unclear how it might be used. So this feature exists, but does not provide any benefit to users.

It occurs to me however, that this feature could easily be used to segment test cases into *test suites*. Then a slight UI change could easily be introduced to group and display test cases by test suite as opposed to in a strict reverse chronological order.

I would love to hear from users what they think of this idea and whether they currently use the Product field for anything. Let me know!

About Byrne Reese

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Byrne Reese is a product manager by day and an engineer by night.

He conceived of Test Run to help project managers like him stay up to date and informed of what his team was working on.