A new version of the Interoperability Test Bed software is now available.

Version 1.21.0 of the Interoperability Test Bed software, based on the GITB CWA specifications, is now released.

This release restructures the test bed’s user interface to simplify navigation and make the organisation of all screens more intuitive. In addition, complex specification setups are now presented in a more intuitive manner, hiding concepts that depending on a community’s configuration may be superfluous. Test case management is extended by introducing optional and disabled test cases, as well as new tags that provide visual cues for test case traits. With respect to monitoring a community’s conformance, administrators can now take and review snapshots of their organisations’ testing progress, and also define public badges for their specifications that can be externally referred to to illustrate an organisation’s conformance status. Finally, the management of on-premise test bed instances is better supported, by exposing a new administration interface allowing administrators to review and adapt the instance’s configuration, as well as define global defaults for all hosted communities.

Alongside these changes to the test bed software, several new features were introduced in the GITB Test Description Language. New metadata was introduced to streamline test suite updates, and to define aspects such as test case custom tags, optional and disabled flags, from within test suite archives. Furthermore new embedded processing capabilities were introduced to facilitate JSON processing, test session delays, and generation of random content.

This new version is online in the Interoperability Test Bed service hosted by DIGIT but is also available for you to setup as a standalone instance.

Check out the full release information to see what's new.