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New features: Tag Management and Time Estimates
May 23, 2007
Development on Test Run continues at a fast and furious pace as we rush to keep up with all the wonderful feedback we get from customers. Most of the feedback is about a feature or two that people would really like to see. Sometimes the feedback is in regards to a bug that a user finds. And then occasionally a user will tell me something like this:
"I have worked at a lot of companies and have been responsible for reviewing and recommending countless test management tools. Test Run is far and away the best and simplest tool I have ever encountered."
God, I can't tell you how wonderful it is to get feedback like that. When it sometimes becomes really hard to create awesome software while continuing to work full time at another job you also love, feedback like that picks you up and keeps you going.
And what better way to reward a growing and increasingly involved and engaged user base then with a new release of Test Run?
Tonight I am happy to announce the latest version of Test Run which contains features implemented exclusively from customer feedback. Most notably, Test Run 1.09 has the the following new features.
Time Estimates - The test case property known as "Difficulty" has been removed and replaced with a far more useful field for collecting a time estimate from the test case creator. Time estimates will allow for a number of cool new project management features down the road, but in the short term the Resource Balancing Report has become much more useful because now an administrator can quickly see more specifically how much work is assigned to each member on their team.
Better Tag Management - A number of users mentioned that they have tags that continue to lie about their installation that they have a lot of difficulty purging and cleaning up. Now Test Run allows administrators to delete and manage tags within their account from the convenience of a single console.
New User Tour - Now new users of Test Run are greeted by a redesigned welcome page and dashboard designed to help them get up and running using Test Run quickly and more easily.
In addition to the above features, numerous bug fixes have been made, and a few small features have been added here and there.
Thank you again to all the users who continue to send feedback, without you Test Run would not be nearly as useful.
About Byrne Reese
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.