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The traditional testmate Christmas party took place again this year.
We laughed a lot, celebrated and enjoyed the time together.
A Merry Pre-Christmas Season wishes the testmate team!

After a two-year break, the GQ family finally celebrated at the Wiesn again.
We enjoyed the evening and had a great time!

RELAUNCH OF OUR NEW WEBSITE

Over the last few months, our team in Germany and our nearshore team have been working hard together on a new design for our website, while trying to make it more intuitive. We are now full of joy to share our website with you with new content, features and a new design!

GQ-Christmas Party

Despite the current circumstances, we at GQ-Technologies decided to hold our traditional Christmas party as usual. We laughed a lot, celebrated and had great fun during the evening. According to the motto “joy shared is joy doubled” we would like to give a little insight into our GQ family and wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

What’s new in Release 2.5.1

New features and improvements

With Release 2.5.1, the focus has been on updating the frameworks used for the testmate software. This has resulted in increased scalability and improved client response times. Furthermore, new customer requirements have been implemented.

Functional enhancements:

• In addition to the existing tool integration options in the “Project” module under the “Tool Integration” tab, a new defect management process has been implemented.
  
  With the current release, it is possible to send defects recorded during test execution via e-mail to a predefined distribution list, defined in the “Project” module. All defect details including the link to the respective test case are forwarded to the e-mail recipients. Thus, defect management processes can also be mapped directly with testmate.
  
• In the “Test Execution” module, the columns Priority, Risk, Acceptance Relevance, Release, Test Complexity and Iteration are now displayed in the table of test cases scheduled in the test set under the “Test Cases” tab. This provides even more detailed information regarding the scheduled test cases for structuring, orientation and prioritization within the test sets.

Furthermore, bugs have been fixed to increase stability and usability.

What’s new in Release 2.5.0

New features and improvements:

In response to a variety of requests, we have implemented the following new features:

Functional enhancements:

• New standard properties have been added to the testmate Test Case Design and Test Object Design modules. This improves the assignment of test cases and test objects to releases and test iterations. In addition, the new fields for risk and complexity category classification allow better control and planning of the test process. In the long term, electronically supported effort estimation is also to be developed on the basis of this information.
• Test acceptance criteria can also be created in the test object design module. This documents which test object acceptance criteria are to be met/tested before the actual creation of test cases. The introduction further improves the structuring of the test process.
• The values specified in the test object design for these new fields are automatically transferred to the test case when a test case is created or assigned to a test object.
• In the Test Execution module, it is now possible to filter by name, release, iteration, status, risk and complexity when adding new test cases to the test set, making it much easier to find test cases.

Handling improvements:

• In the Test Case Design module, we use a central table for the creation of different concrete test cases when defining logical (flow) and concrete (value attributes) test cases. In this table, multiple columns can now be selected and set to the desired width at the same time, as is familiar from spreadsheet programs.

In addition, bugs have been fixed to further improve stability and usability.

Already delivered in the last deployment was the possibility to further use file types for file attachments, such as .msg or eml.

What’s new in Release 2.3.1

New features and improvements:

Test case design:
Test cases (both logical and concrete test cases) referenced in the Test Execution module are retained in the Test Case Design module after deletion, if desired. in the Test Case Design module. In this case, they will be displayed there as crossed out.
This way, the previous test execution results for these test cases remain visible, even though the test case no longer exists.

Faster navigation/jump between concrete test cases and test sets:
From a concrete test case, it is now possible to navigate directly to the test set containing the test case via the “Go to test set” button or via the corresponding context menu.
Clicking on this button or the corresponding context menu opens a tree view with all test sets (in their respective hierarchy) that contain this specific test case.
that contain this specific test case.
Here, the test set to be displayed can be selected and navigated to via double-click or context menu.

Saving the individual display
The state of the tree structure (collapsed or expanded state of each tree node) is now stored user-specifically for all modules.
In addition, the selected column widths of the concrete test cases in the Test Case Design module are saved per user.

Further improvements
The following points have also been optimized as part of the continuous improvement process:

• Enhancements in interaction with Jira (issue type selection).
• In the Test Case Design module, the initial priority of a test case is now automatically determined based on the combination of risk and complexity of a test object.
• In the Test Case Design module, the activation status of specific test steps is displayed in a clearer way (more meaningful icons, more intuitive operation).
• In the Test Execution module, the complete hierarchy path of a test set is displayed in the “Search” tab.
• In addition, bugs have been fixed to further improve stability and usability.

PC Magazin reports about testmate

In its online edition, PC Magazin reports on testmate in its guide to software testing.

“testmate maps the entire test process as a holistic test management software: In the tool, test managers create a test concept, define test coverage, describe test cases, plan test executions and create test reports.”

PC Magazine : testmate Article

• Until now, the right mouse button in testmate still had functions beyond the respective browser standard. By popular demand, we have made all menu functions additionally accessible with the right mouse button with this release.
• Depending on the current editing context, the right-click in the selection menu offers exactly those functions that are available in this situation. This is a further step towards more intuitive operation.

• Double-click or right-click menu to go from the test case in the “Test Case Execution” module to its definition directly in the “Test Case Design” module
• Double-click or right-click menu on a concrete test case in the “Test case design” module leads directly to its planning in the test set

• Another very handy new feature is the ability to copy one or more logical test case steps. For example, if there are recurring test steps that occur in several test cases, they can now simply be copied and pasted into a new test case.
• In addition, some bugs have been fixed, thus improving stability and performance.