A few words from our CEO

"No vacation time for XQual - XStudio 8 stable version is available for download and I can only encourage you to update.

This is the best web version we ever delivered including features such as the embedded Gherkin editor (along with its step definition catalog management), the long-time awaited Scheduling functionality and a Gitlab connector.

Rollup of our cloud servers (in all the regions) will start next week."

- Eric Gavaldo

NEWS

Integrated Scheduling

Of course, ability to schedule your automated tests execution is a must.

There were already different ways to plan and schedule test execution with XStudio but now you can simply add a schedule under a test campaign in XStudio.web (as you are already used to do with XStudio).

At the specified date and time, a new session is then automatically created and executed by an agent with the right configuration.

Hence here is the updated list of ways to program a campaign execution:

Create and start a session using the GUI
Create the integrated scheduler in XStudio (and wait for an agent to create and execute the new session at specified date/time)
Using your favorite CI/CD system (Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Gitlab, Github, Travis, Circle...) (you just need to insert a call to XContinuousIntegration in your build plan)
Programmatically using the REST API

Even organizations with limited resources and tooling can now easily plan/schedule/control their automated test execution!

Gitlab Integration

Gitlab became a major actor in the dev. and test industry. So it's no surprise then that we integrated it into our already extensive list of connectors.

You can fetch and view Gitlab issues at the Requirements/User Story level or at the Bug level.

Both asynchronous and synchronous modes are available.

Asynchronous mode

When you create an item from XStudio, you're automatically redirected to the issue creation page in the appropriate project in Gitlab.
You can then refresh and link the new issue (now appearing in XStudio) to other objects in XStudio (for example linking a new Gitlab bug with a failed test in XStudio or link a new Gitlab user-story with some SUTs and/or tests).

Synchronous mode

When you create an item from XStudio, you can directly provide the basic fields values in an integrated popup in XStudio.
The new issue automatically appears in XStudio then (without having to refresh the tree).
If you create a new bug in Gitlab from the manual test execution GUI in XStudio, the bug is prepopulated and automatically linked to the test currently being executed.

...and as always, all those wonderful features work on ANY browser
firefox chrome edge safari

and on ANY device
pc mac tablet smartphone

ROADMAP

As always, XStudio 8 will have soon some service packs delivered with new low-risk features and bug-fixes.

Please check our roadmap for more details.

A first XStudio 9 beta is planned for October with a major new feature allowing to combine multiple-sources of connectors at requirement and bug levels.

Newsletter July-August, 2022

XStudio 8

A few words from our CEO

NEWS

ROADMAP