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@Seddryck Seddryck released this 16 Jun 23:55
v1.8.0.1
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The release 1.8 includes improvements in three major areas: interpretation of CSV files, setup/cleanup features and genbiL capabilities. This release also includes a few bug fixes for Genbi.

Please report all the bugs to the issues tracker to ensure they are fixed ... even if they are minor issues.

What's new ?

New features

  • Setup and Cleanup: Added support for
  • Define csv-profile: You're not anymore constrained to use semi-columns and carriage return/line feed. This new feature lets you define your favorite field and record separators. The CSV reader has been completely rewritten and also supports UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding.
  • Improvements for genbiL: I've added a new set of available actions for genbiL (but not available in the UI of Genbi). This new set of features is a revolution and offers new opportunities to automate the process of test-suite generation.
    • Add Column (case): Add a column to the test-cases table with a default value
    • Filter (case): Limit the set of test-cases to a subset by applying a filter is now supporting multiple values.
    • Scope (case): Offers the opportunity to have several set of test-cases loaded at the same moment.
    • Copy (case): Duplicate a set of test-cases
    • Merge (case): Merge two sets of test-cases
    • Save (case): Save modification applied to a set of test-cases
    • A silent (quiet) mode is now available for Genbi.
    • Control of parameter "parallelize-queries" in genbiL.
  • Trait: a trait is a property (Key/Value) added to a test. Translated to a property of a test in NUnit, this information is rendered in the report of execution.

Bug fixes

What's cool

  • Davide Mauri has spoken about NBi during his session at Summit2014
  • I'll be presenting a session about Test automation with NBi for the Global French Virtual Chapter. It should be confirmed but probably the 17th of December.
  • When a bug is fixed or a feature is ready, I try to put a link to a nightly-build on appVeyor. If this fix/feature is important for you, you can download the build and use it.
  • I'll surely blog in the next weeks about the new capabilities of genbiL and how to automate the build of a regression test-suite from scratch in a couple of minutes. Follow this on my blog

What's next ?

Main ideas for release 1.9 (and next)

  • Create fakes or stubs of views, stored procedures or functions during the setup of a test and remove them during the cleanup. (Work already started)
  • Offer the opportunity to surround the test with a transaction and rollback the transaction when the test has been executed.
  • Support testing of structure for database
  • Support of rows count tests
  • Execute tests with etls running on a remote server.
  • Add a setup command to process parts of a cube (SSAS).
  • Support some tests about result-sets, to express easily conditions such has "If this field is greater than X then this other field must be greater than Y".
  • Support tests on the xml of a report (SSRS)

I'm (still) working on a Release 2.0. This work is delayed to the lack of releases for NUnit 3.0 (and changes in the API). Anyway the goals are still:

  • Lot of internal refactoring meaning easier to integrate new features (mostly done)
  • Compatible with NUnit 3.0 meaning easier to setup a test suite !
  • Easier to port it to another test framework than NUnit (xUnit, Fixie, ...)
  • Easier to write helpers to compare result-sets
  • Easier to create a Visual Studio Add-in
    Naturally this Release 2.0 has a big constraint linked to the availability of NUnit 3.0 (currently still not available) so no planned date for the moment.
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