Version 1.12.0 of the ISA² interoperability test bed software, based on the GITB CWA specifications, is now released. This release focuses on the Test Bed’s test execution engine and the GITB Test Description Language to facilitate the development of complex test suites. The test case scriptlet concept has been significantly extended, allowing reusable blocks of test steps to be shared across test cases but also across test suites. Moreover, reusing common resources is now also possible for any kind of artefact, template or documentation content that may be imported by test cases, and is further facilitated by allowing a test suite to not include test cases itself but rather act as a resource holder for other test suites. Aside from such features focusing on sharing and reuse, this release also simplifies test suite validation and extends the test engine’s embedded processing capabilities with new options of working with timestamps, regular expressions and collection structures.

This new version is online in the ISA² interoperability test bed service but is also available for you to setup as a standalone instance. If a standalone instance best matches your needs, the following supporting resources are available:

• The test bed's installation guide (for development and production use).
• The test bed's user guide.
• The source code of the test bed software.
• The EUPL-based licence attached to the direct use of the source code.

If you are updating from a previous version, please follow the test bed's update guide.

Release Notes - Version 1.12.0

The following list summarises the issues included in this release, classified as bugs, improvements and new features. For more details click the issue key links (requires access to the test bed's issue tracker).

Bug

• [ITB-172] - Scriptlet parameter errors lead to inconsistent results
• [ITB-173] - Scriptlet requires parameters and variables
• [ITB-174] - Scriptlet outputs must match variables
• [ITB-788] - Test suite upload with invalid ZIP archive may not report validation error
• [ITB-820] - Unexpected error when validating a test suite with multiple test suite XML files
• [ITB-837] - Unable to update a system's version number
• [ITB-842] - Iteration steps cannot be reviewed in completed session display
• [ITB-843] - Prevent user from attaching to contact form more files than allowed maximum
• [ITB-861] - Error when user exports own conformance certificate
• [ITB-867] - Call step passing wrong number of inputs to scriptlet is not blocked at test suite validation time
• [ITB-872] - Legal notice headings styled differently when viewed from the welcome page or internally
• [ITB-873] - Standalone XML file defining scriptlet cannot be validated against the GITB TDL XSD
• [ITB-875] - Test diagram display may overlap output message for minimal test cases
• [ITB-876] - Imports defined in scriptlets are not processed
• [ITB-882] - The display of nested loop steps is not correctly updated during test execution

New Feature

• [ITB-780] - Archive test sessions after a specific time period has elapsed
• [ITB-782] - Allow scriptlets to be shared across multiple test cases.
• [ITB-818] - Allow resources to be shared between test suite archives
• [ITB-840] - Support utility functions for maps and lists
• [ITB-869] - Support the import of test suites without test cases (i.e. shared resource packages)
• [ITB-894] - Allow test cases to make custom regular expression manipulations

Improvement

• [ITB-175] - Allow scriptlets to not have outputs
• [ITB-463] - Allow timestamp generation based on received dates and times
• [ITB-668] - Updated embedded SchematronHandler to use latest validation libraries
• [ITB-711] - Make the session identifier optional for GITB services
• [ITB-781] - Upgrade core component dependencies
• [ITB-800] - Return output from call step even upon failure
• [ITB-807] - Mark default users following new installation as requiring a password change
• [ITB-823] - When validating a test suite display information messages for the use of custom configuration properties (not warnings)
• [ITB-825] - Reduce the number of warnings from TDL test suite validations
• [ITB-836] - Allow editing a test suite's version number through the UI
• [ITB-866] - Disable browser autocomplete for input fields
• [ITB-887] - Order uploaded test suite validation reports based on severity
• [ITB-888] - Allow imports with the same name from different scriptlets
• [ITB-889] - Check for unique variable, parameter, import, input and output declarations in test cases
• [ITB-893] - Allow the embedded SchematronValidator to be informed of the Schematron type to consider (pure or XSLT)