Test Run

With the slow and steady increase of customer usage of Test Run Online, the product has begun to feel a little sluggish and a number of you, my customers, had expressed their concern. On the up side, I guess that is bound to happen when you have over a hundred thousand test cases, and five thousand test plans - surely a sign of success by some measure. But the success of Test Run should never come at the expense of paying customers, so I have turned my attention towards performance and database optimization.

Having just completed a thorough analysis of Test Run's database architecture I will, over the course of the next several days, be rolling out a number of recommended improvements to the system. Several have already been deployed and the results are enjoyable - and difference is remarkable.

Of course, I am also working on other improvements to make Test Run more usable, and flexible. A number of users have been having difficulty with text formatting, and in working with them I realized that text formatting doesn't always make sense as a global setting. So, I just finished making text formatting, like the use of markdown and a rich text editor, a test case level setting. Now each and every test case can set its own preference for how it should be formatted.

Other improvements are also coming, so stay tuned.