Version 1.19.0 of the Interoperability Test Bed software, based on the GITB CWA specifications, is now released.

This release focuses on providing further flexibility in managing a community’s overall testing setup and the versioning of test cases. Notable changes include the possibility to define additional levels of specifications, and test suites that are shared across specifications whose test sessions count towards all relevant conformance statements. These extensions are complemented by a new streamlined process of creating new conformance statements. In terms of version management, test suite uploads now afford fine-grained control over the testing history and metadata of individual test cases. In addition, the metadata linked to executed test sessions becomes a snapshot representing their context at execution time. Finally, it is now also possible to upload community-specific resources such as images, that may be referenced in the community’s documentation and landing pages.

Alongside these changes, minor improvements were also made to the GITB Test Description Language, focusing on additional means of working with data collections. In addition, new variants of the “gitb-types” library were published catering for different API versions making it simpler to maintain and evolve test extension services.

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. 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 1.19.0

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-1302] - Self messaging steps (same to and from actors) are displayed with a squashed arrow
• [ITB-1333] - When selecting to delete test sessions, expanded test sessions are not displayed at full width
• [ITB-1341] - The self-registration page when not using SSO breaks the heading text's alignment
• [ITB-1348] - Tooltips displayed for table headers and wrongly aligned
• [ITB-1349] - Authorisation errors in REST API calls don't get reported correctly
• [ITB-1350] - Test suite management REST API calls are blocked if test session API calls are not allowed for organisations
• [ITB-1354] - A step's status report should allow collapsing only for non-root values
• [ITB-1362] - Test session step status maps allow overriding entries when scriptlet child steps have the same IDs
• [ITB-1363] - Test case and test suite documentation preview produces an error for empty content
• [ITB-1364] - Contact form attachments not named correctly
• [ITB-1366] - Steps within groups and loops not included in test session reports
• [ITB-1367] - Assign steps directly assigning values to maps within maps is reported as a test suite validation error
• [ITB-1368] - Skipped loop steps within other loop steps are not displayed correctly
• [ITB-1374] - Tests including flow steps and set to stopOnError may result in a wrong overall result

New Feature

• [ITB-1010] - Allow multiple conformance statements to be defined at the same time
• [ITB-1233] - Introduce optional specification groups to allow additional organisation over specifications
• [ITB-1297] - When uploading a test suite to reset its conformance testing status allow selecting the test cases for which this should happen
• [ITB-1303] - Allow community administrators to upload static resources for use in rich text content such as documentation and landing pages
• [ITB-1318] - Allow test suites to be defined at domain level and be shared across specifications
• [ITB-1352] - Extend CollectionUtils embedded processor to select a random entry from a list
• [ITB-1357] - Extend CollectionUtils processor with operation to see if a collection contains a value
• [ITB-1376] - Adapt GITB types library to support usage in both Java EE and Jakarta EE contexts
• [ITB-1380] - Allow filtering of available conformance statements when creating a new one
• [ITB-1383] - Extend CollectionUtils processor with operation to remove an item from a list or map

Improvement

• [ITB-1309] - In the conformance statement list for organisations don't display the domain if one is linked to the relevant community
• [ITB-1323] - Record completed test session information as a snapshot of the metadata applicable when the session was executed
• [ITB-1334] - Improve Content Security Policy
• [ITB-1337] - Simplify reverse proxy setup via environment variables configured directly in the Test Bed
• [ITB-1360] - Improve the error message when using a non-string variable as a template placeholder value
• [ITB-1361] - Record steps' scriptlet identifiers in the STEP_STATUS and STEP_SUCCESS status maps
• [ITB-1365] - Remove warnings from DB migration scripts when initialising a new Test Bed instance
• [ITB-1375] - Allow test suite and test case identifiers to be copied to the clipboard
• [ITB-1379] - Only propose available conformance statements when creating a new one
• [ITB-1381] - Treat a system's version information as optional
• [ITB-1382] - Display tooltips for status icons
• [ITB-1385] - Display icons for all UI constructs that are expandable or collapsible