XStudio 1.6: New progress metrics

One of the most important question you need to figure out when you're a test manager is "when my test campaigns execution will be completed".

You can get the answer to this question without a single click starting with XStudio 1.6a5.

There are 2 different types of progress metric you can get:

• Progress in terms of test cases executed versus test cases left
• Progress in terms of timing: how much time has already been spent but more importantly how much time will be necessar to complete the execution. When you create a test in XStudio you will be asked to give an estimated time for execution. But each time this test is executed, XStudio measures the effective time spent and correct the original estimation. The time necessary to execute a test is calculated from the ten last execution and allows estimating the time necessary to complete the session execution.

The metrics are available directly from the general campaign tree.

When you select "Test cases executed" in the selector at the top of the tree you 'll get the progress in terms of test cases executed:

If you select "Estimated time" in the selector at the top of the tree you 'll get the progress in terms of time spent vs time still needed to complte the session:

The even better news is that If you organize your campaigns in folders that represent something (a functional area, a complete release, a package etc.), the system will consolidate the progress and recursively propagate the metric to parent folders.

This way you know how much time is necessary to finish all the sessions included within a folder for instance.

This feature is available in XStudio Professional, XStudio Business and XStudio Enterprise.