Testing Anywhere - Version History

1. SMART Recorder:
   1. Enhanced SMART Recorder with superior object recognition technology which supports Sliverlight, JAVA AWT and Swing, WPF and .NET controls.
   2. Now SMART Recorder command exposes many more properties of the captured object that can be used for setting checkpoints or selecting the search criteria to identify the object.
   3. More powerful object search functionality as the object property values used as search criteria is now editable.
2. Enhanced Visual Logs feature with the support for exporting the logs to a PDF file along with run-time and record-time images. The PDF visual log gives a very clear and accurate idea about the test execution and issues with it, if any.
3. Added Registry command to automate various registry management tasks. Now a checkpoint can be set on a specific registry value as well.
4. Now Testing Anywhere supports integration with JIRA. Users can perform seamless reporting of a failed checkpoint to JIRA from the Test Log screen.
5. Web Recorder:
   1. Now user can choose if the new URL be opened in the existing IE window or not.
   2. Added functionality of selecting an item using INDEX. This allows you to play back the controls where control text frequently changes.
   3. Enhanced Extract Data functionality with faster data extraction capabilities.
   4. Added support to work seamlessly with UAC (User Access Control) of Windows Vista and Windows 7 both 32 and 64 bits.
   5. Enhanced Web Recorder that supports firing the OnClick event when the item is selected from the dropdown.
   6. Added support for Copy and Paste of columns in Extract Multiple Data command. Now you can get URL and caption of a link much quicker without recapturing the link.
   7. Enhanced support for HTTP/HTTPS protocols and security certificates.
   8. Improved object support by exposing many more properties of the web object.
   9. Added support for Right Click on certain objects that have OnContextMenu actions defined.
   10. Now Web Recorder supports multiple monitors with different resolutions.
6. Added support for MS Exchange for the command Send Email in the Create exe.
7. Added functionality of customizing the hotkey for stopping a task via Tools > Options.
8. Enhanced Loop command with support for CSV with more than 20,000 rows.
9. Now the Read from CSV/Text command supports path that is mixture of constant and variables.
10. Improved XML command's functionality to accommodate rather uncommon conventions of default namespace.
11. Added support of Trigger for the password protected tasks.
12. Now Auto Login is supported on XP 64-bit machines as well.
13. Improved Image Recognition command with sophisticated pattern matching logic and increased efficiency. Now, Image Recognition command performs at least 4x faster with large size images.
14. Now double clicking on a shortcut of a task launches the task in the existing Automation Anywhere instance, if found.
15. Added a setting to configure what key to use to stop the test execution (earlier ESC was used for this action). The setting can be found under Tools > Options > Hotkeys.
    

1. Sometimes, list variables did not appear in Message Box or Log to File command. Fixed.
2. In certain cases, the Windows action "Close all open windows" didn't work properly on Windows 7. Fixed.
3. The Find Broken Link command didn't work properly if HREF contains blank value. Fixed.
4. When system variable Date is used in Variable operations with hyphens, e.g. ($Date--test--), '-' is converted into the '\'. Fixed.
5. Rarely, while recording a task using Object Recorder, it was unable to find a window even if it existed. Fixed.
6. Using Manage Web Controls, after selecting "Select Action", if the user decides to change the preference to "Select Item by Text", the "Item to Select" box fails to reappear. Fixed.

1. Added a new feature of Avatar which is a reusable screen capture that retains the screen’s live object properties (like the Name, Type, Value and Parent of each control). Avatars can be used over and over to create many different kinds of tests without the need of the actual application installed on the computer.
2. Added a new feature of SMART Recorder which works with local and global Avatars as well as the application to create the tests. It also captures the image and coordinates of the object and allows user to play the command in the object, image or coordinate mode.
3. Now for expert users of Testing Anywhere, a new way of creating a test is introduced in the Test Editor. It’s called the Expert View. It allows the user to type the commands in the editor and set the arguments.
4. Enhanced Data Parameterization feature which now allows the variable values to be fetched from various sources like database, excel and CSV/Text file. This is very powerful in generating different test data sets.
5. Now Testing Anywhere supports integration with the HP Quality Center (HPQC) test management system. After the test runs, Testing Anywhere can update the HPQC test lab for seamless test management.
6. Added a new feature of ‘Web Service’. This allows you to integrate with a Web service to establish seamless dataflow between clients/applications with the Web, supporting XML-based open standards, such as WSDL (Web Services Description Language), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration).
7. Added a new feature of XML that provides a tight integration with any XML document, be it online or as a text blob. It allows various operations to be performed like insert/update/delete nodes and attributes at given points to name a few.
8. Added a new feature of Terminal Emulator. This allows you to emulate virtually any server/mainframe that requires the use of a terminal with protocols such as ANSI, VT100, TN3270 and TN5250.
9. Enhanced String Operations command which now includes variety of functions like Sub String, Replace, Join, etc. to manipulate the data.
10. Now all the scheduled tests can be tracked from the newly added Schedule Manager. It provides a calendar-type view with various filtering options to have better visibility on the scheduled tests.
11. Added object recognition support for applications built using various technologies like WPF, Janus, Silverlight to name a few.
12. Added a functionality of Find-Replace in Excel.
13. Enhanced ‘Get Cells command of Excel with a newly added option ‘Get All Cells’ to loop through all the active cells of the spreadsheet.
14. Added two new system variables ‘Excel Cell Row’ and ‘Excel Cell Column’ to find out the address of the cell in use.
15. Enhanced ‘Open Program/File’ functionality where now you can specify a ‘Start In’ folder for the selected application/exe.
16. Now declaring of an ‘If’ and ‘Error Handling’ blocks just got easier. Just select multiple consecutive commands from the editor, right click and select ‘Insert If Condition’ or ‘Insert Error Handling’ option.
17. Now you can run the test from a specific command by right-clicking on the selected command and selecting ‘Run from this Step’ option.
18. Added a new functionality for Loop Condition where now the condition can be evaluated at the end of the loop instead of at the beginning.
19. Enhanced ‘Run Stored Procedure’ command with an ability to send input, output or input-output type of parameters while calling the procedure.
20. Now the output of the ‘Run Stored Procedure’ command can be saved in the CSV file.
21. Improved image comparison logic for the ‘Image Recognition’ command which can now perform comparison up to 5 times faster.
22. Enhanced Web Recorder that will support multiple value selection in a listbox while recording.
23. Added ability to change the column positions of the CSV file while using pattern based web data extraction functionality.
24. Enhanced scheduling functionality with an option to repeat the test every x minutes. Also, now ‘End Date’ can be specified.
25. Added support for wildcards at the beginning of the filename for the commands FTP/SFTP.
26. Added support for timeout in the ‘Extract Data’ and ‘Extract Table’ command of Web Recorder.
27. Added a variable support for the script path in the ‘Run Script’ command.
28. Enhanced ‘Task-to-EXE’ feature where ‘Run Script’ can have the non-existent script path.
29. Enhanced Web Recorder with added support for nested child frame support.
30. Enhanced SMART automation logic for Web Recorder which now supports searching of a control in all the IE windows opened by the application.
31. Enhanced Debug mode which is faster and supports nested loops with any number of iterations.
32. Improved Test Editor’s performance for rather large tests.
33. Now the ‘Insert Keystrokes’ feature can be used in conjunction with the Terminal window.
34. Now use Ctrl-a to select all the tests of a Run Suite in the Run Suite editor and all the visual logs of a test or a Run Suite for ease of use.
35. Added support for Send Email command working with Exchange Server in creating the executable.
36. Added Object Properties checkpoint under ‘Insert Checkpoint’ command which helps verify the object properties at run time.
37. Added Packet Content checkpoint under ‘Insert Checkpoint’ command that helps verify the content coming out of a particular TCP/UDP port on a hostname.
38. Added support for uploading/downloading files other than tests, e.g. doc type, etc.
39. Enhanced storing capacity of $FieldData Column$ to be able to store large amount of data while exporting data from a CSV/Text file.
40. Extended support for ‘Object Used’ under Properties > Test Report to the test executable.
41. Now a file can be deleted from the server via ‘Server Communication’ functionality if the client has the ‘Delete’ access permission.
42. Now even variables mentioned inside the square brackets, i.e .[] will yield the proper value and not be escaped.
43. Added an option under Tools > Options > Advance Settings to indicate how many visual logs of a test should be displayed in one page.

1. When the application path is changed to be on a network drive and the drive gets disconnected, Testing Anywhere could not start. Fixed.
2. ‘Run Task’ command with variables as parameters was not working properly when the test is converted to an executable. Fixed.
3. $Filename$ system variable could not be referenced in case of a nested loop using ‘Loop for each file in Folder’ command. Fixed.
4. In 2008, the ‘HTML’ option of the ‘Send Email’ command did not offer variable support. Fixed.
5. In certain cases, GDI objects were getting leaked. Fixed.

1. Improved test editor performance for rather large tests.
2. Now Undo/Redo functionality is configurable via settings.ini.

1. In rare cases, while editing image-based commands, ‘Path/File access error’ appears. Fixed.