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.