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

Release 1.22.0 of the Interoperability Test Bed software, based on the GITB CWA specifications, is now available.

This release significantly extends the Test Bed’s reporting capabilities by introducing new report types at various aggregation levels, as well as customisable certificates and XML reports at all levels for machine-based post-processing. In addition, conformance status monitoring was enhanced by allowing users to view their status in earlier conformance snapshots, and by introducing a new hierarchical view per organisation as the default presentation of the administrator’s conformance dashboard. For users operating their own Test Bed instances, the new release brings significant new features such as advanced theming possibilities, new configuration options covering email and automated account clean-up, and the inclusion of system settings in exports for configuration portability and sandbox definitions. Finally, the Test Bed’s automation API was also extended to include a lightweight health-check mechanism for availability monitoring, and an operation enabling the management of configuration properties.

With respect to test capabilities, this release brings first-class support for the management of images in test steps, and extends test suite and test case metadata to include normative specification references. Furthermore, user interactions were significantly overhauled to allow them to be minimised and asynchronously completed, manage the inputs included in reports, and support configurable timeouts. Finally, it is now possible to define administrator verifications of test sessions directly within the test bed, supporting scenarios where manual verification of test results is required.

This new release 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.