Difference between revisions of "GXtest 2.0 New Features"

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These are the new features and functionalities available on the version 2.0 of GXtest.

One Click Startup

Starting with automated testing now is easier than ever. GXtest 2.0 has an extension for GeneXus (Ev1 or greater) which simplifies the process of setup the GXtest metadata and project. View GXtest Generator Tutorial.

Automatic test cases generation

With GXtest Generator extension for GeneXus, automated test cases are generated automatically to test the transactions and webpanels of the working Knowledge Base. These test cases are automatically imported to the GXtest project associated with the GeneXus KB. With only one click you are ready to run automated tests. View GXtest Generator Tutorial.

Support for Google Chrome

Google Chrome is now supported to execute test cases with GXtest. This version also adds support for the latest versions of Internet Explorer (version 10), and Firefox (version 21).

Automatic performance tests generation

GXtest 2.0 includes a new feature that helps you generate a OpenSTA script for performance testing from a GXtest test case. The tool lets you save 80% of the time it takes to put together a script of this type, since it only remains parameterization. See GXtest2OpenSTA for Performance Testing.

Automatic test case documentation

It is possible to automatically generate test documentation. GXtest 2.0 includes a improved functionality to generate a Word file, showing each step of the test case, and optionally include the results and screenshots of each step. Also, it can be customized from a MSWord template to fit each profile. See Automatic Testcase Documentation.

Functional Unit Testing

From GeneXus (Ev1 or higher), you can execute an automatically generated test case of a transaction or web panel, simply by doing right-click -> "Run and Test". For a transaction, the automatic test case will create, edit, search and delete a record. For a webpanel, the test will attempt to fill all editable fields and press the buttons. See GXtest Functional Unit Testing.

Validations with right click

While recording a test case, you can right-click over a control on the page to add a validation over it. In addition, we improved the information dialogs that display the validations options. View GXtest Recorder New Validations.

Details of execution results

Configuration is added to specify the detail level of the results of each execution. Now you can choose to save the HTML of the page at each step executed, or only on validations, on errors, or never. View Configuration of the results detail level.

Also we added a new command to take a screenshot at any given moment of execution of the test.

SQLExecute Command

We added a new command to execute a SQL sentence at any given moment of the test execution. See SQLExecute Command.

TakeScreenshot Command

We added a new command to take a screen/html capture of the aplication, at any given moment of the test execution.

Interface improvements/new features

• We added a context menu, accesible by right clicking an open tab, with options to close all tabs, or all but the active one.
• New "Rename Datapool" and "Rename Testcase" options on the project tree context menu.
• We added the history of the last opened projects by the user to the Project menu.
• We added the history of the last test cases opened by the user, in the selected project, to the Test Cases menu.
• When opening a Datapool, GXtest remembers the last Scope of that Datapool with which the user worked.
• We added sample projects to help start automating and trying GXtest using a sample application. They can be opened/imported from the Help menu, Open Sample Project.
• When renaming a Datapool that is used in certain test cases, the reference in those test cases is updated to match the new name of the Datapool.

External WebService invocation

We added the posibility of invoking generic web services (not made in Genexus), as support for complex parameters types, and services with multiple methods. See Invoke External WebServices.

FillInput of values from files

We added the possibility of loading data from a file in the hard drive to use as values for the FillInput command. See Wildcard file.

GXtest 2.0 Roadmap

• Unit testing for GeneXus
• Support for generic SOAP Webservices (currently supports only GeneXus procedures)
• Automatic test case generation for transactions with K2BTools pattern (currently supports GeneXus WorkWith pattern, and WorkWithPlus pattern)
• A integrated suite to manage all the testing views from one place: manual testing, automated testing, performance testing, issue tracking, etc.
• Execution comparator: a tool to compare step by step different executions of the same test case.