Release of XStudio 1.7b1

XStudio 1.7b1 has just been released.

Please find below the changes you can expect from this version.

Changelog

   * Multiple testcase, tests, SUTs, requirements, specifications, defects,sprint, tasks, campaigns, schedule, attachments, documents, agents, users, teams deletion
   * Ability to delete items (teams, users, sut, agents, requirements, specifications, tests, testcases, tasks, sprints, campaigns, sessions,bugs, schedules) in the trees just by pressing the delete key
   * New simpler merge wizard (use multi-selection feat. for source sessions)
   * Better performances while emptying a test, sut, requirement, specification, defect folder
   * Automatic generation of residual test campaigns (i.e. not successful tests)
   * Agents pool capability to let the system load-balance the sessions on the available agents in a pool
   * Custom search/filter can be named, saved and shared (bugs, requirements, specifications, tasks, tests/testcases)
   * Add custom fields filtering in the search/filter windows 
   * All search/filter are now session-persistent (last settings remembered) and cached
   * Capability to generate a report from the bug search/filter window
   * Huge performance issues with bugs search/filter
   * Search/filter windows not modal either always on top but linked with the main window
   * Reduce the tree progress bar's width
   * XContinuousIntegration: change 'BAMBOO' option in 'JUNIT'
   * Improvement of the email notifications:
     - small style change (more compliant with the web site css)
     - includes SUT where the bugs have been found and fixed if relevant
     - includes the author of the bug modification
   * Bug-fixes:
     - Migration embedded images:
       . Progress bar also when patching (not updating) schema
       . All embedded images are now stored in a common repository
     - add missing country for US (United State of America)
     - add missing weekends for SE (Sweden)
     - SOAPUI launcher returns invalid failures
     - Ranorex launcher support new XML format returned in latest versions

Update
Some detailed instructions are available here: 
www.xqual.com/documentation/install/update.html

Bugs
As usual, feel free to submit some bugs and ideas for new features to the
forums: http://xqual.freeforums.org.

If you purchased a commercial license, just contact us directly at
support@xqual.com don't forget to include your identification key (you can
find it in Menu > Help > About > Support and plugins) in your email.

Demo
The demo environment will be updated soon (when there
are only a few people connected).

Contact us
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XStudio 1.7: Agents pool

When you have thousands of automated tests in a Continuous Integration environment, time to perform test execution can be a problem. XStudio already provided a good tooling to fix that issue as you were able to execute your tests remotely on several remote computers (and even on several independent threads on each agent).

The step further has be reached in XStudio 1.7: you can now specify a pool of agents and the system will pick the first available agent in the pool.

This way you can efficiently "load-balance" your test executions.

Hope you will enjoy it!