July 2021 | ReadyAPI Community News
Hello Community! Welcome to the July TestComplete News. July is a great month – it’s time to sum up the quarter results and think about great stuff to do in the second part of the year! In this monthly digest, we’re happy to announce new quarterly community leaders, introduce the ReadyAPI Marketing team, share new product features, and much more. Let’s start. Q2 2021COMMUNITYLEADERS As usual, each quarter begins with choosing new community leaders – members who contributed the most to the community within the quarter by giving replies and getting kudos. Please meet the new Q2 2021 Community Leaders: Leaders in the ReadyAPI and SoapUI OS communities: nmrao,richie,HimanshuTayal Leaders in the TestComplete community:@Marsha_R,@AlexKaras First-time leader in the Zephyr Scale community:@MisterB Congratulations, gang! You ROCK! In addition to respect of the entire SmartBear Community, we’re happy to reward you with a $50 gift card. Want to be a leader next quarter? Read the 3 Simple Steps to Become a ReadyAPI Community Leader to learn how to earn this community status. INSIDEREADYAPI- Marketing Team Each month, we introduce ReadyAPI team members to our lovely customers so you can learn much more about us and the thought process behind the tool. This month, we’re talking with Phil Voulgaris, the ReadyAPI Marketing Lead. Watch the new interview to learn more about Phil and how the team works. If you have any questions to Phil, please post them in comments. >> Watch the interview with Phil Voulgaris Find more Inside ReadyAPI interviews, look under the ReadyAPITeam tag. PRODUCT UPDATEs Get the new ReadyAPI version – 3.9 – to access these new great features: REST support in the API Connection test step Smart Assertion And others Read the What's New In ReadyAPI article to learn about these and other upgrades. Download it now: If you’re a licensed user, get the latest version at the ReadyAPI Downloads Center. (And if you’re interested in giving ReadyAPI a shot, request a free 14-day trial). SMARTBEAR ACADEMY We recently made some major upgrades to the SmartBear Academy – this is a great, free learning resource where you can learn the products and improve your knowledge. Enroll in any courses you like, learn something new, and return to the SmartBear Community to share your new knowledge! You can even earn some more Kudos! Enroll in the ReadyAPI courses in the SmartBear Academy MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS Last month, there were so many great discussions. Here are only a few of them – but if anything piques your curiosity, please add your comments: ${projectDir} doesn't resolve correctly How to connect jdbc to an Excel file to fetch data and compare it with XPath match in ReadyAPI Groovy script to run a Teststep doesn't fail when the test Step fails How to get request body using a groovy script in ReadyAPI Newbie Question: Naming standards in ReadyAPI How to enable/disable multiple assertions in a test Suite via groovy script SQL Datasource Prepared Properties using a Property that is a comma separated list That’s all for a month! Got a question? Have a comment? Please feel free to let us know! /SmartBear Community TeamApril 2021 | ReadyAPI Community News
Greetings, All! Welcome back to the April ReadyAPI Community News. As usual, we’ll cover the hottest and most interesting community topics. Subscribe to the news to always be notified and leave your comments if you have any questions/suggestions/notes. VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH THEREADYAPITEAM I’m sure you want to know more about ReadyAPI! This month we continue introducing you to the members of theReadyAPIteam, so you can learn more about the people who are developing the best tool for API testing –ReadyAPI? Today, I present Alianna Inzana, Senior Director of Product Development for API and Virtualization. Ali started her career as an analyst, where she was happy to work with digits before she dove into the world of APIs. Check out what her passion is these days, along with what we can expect fromReadyAPIin 2021. >> Watch the interview with Ali Inzana Q1 2021 COMMUNITY LEADERS As usual, each quarter we’re happy to announce the most active community members, and award them with the elite community status of “SmartBearLeader.” Please join me in congratulating this quarter’s Leaders in theReadyAPICommunity - you probably saw their participation and the contributions they made each day. richie,HimanshuTayal,ChrisAdams,nmrao You rock, gang! Thanks for your willingness to help make theSmartBearCommunity great.EachReadyAPICommunity Leader earns a $50 gift card, courtesy ofSmartBear. Community, we encourage each of you to participate more actively in the community – bring up your own questions, answer other questions, and share your insights. Help us out starting today, and you might find out that next quarter it will be your name announced as a Community Leader! Find out more about contributing. PRODUCT UPDATE We’ve just released the new version ofReadyAPI, version 3.7. It’s got some great new features and improvements: Kafka support Assertion groups and much more Read the What's New in ReadyAPI 3.7article to learn about these and other improvements. Download it now: If you’re a licensed user, get the latest version at the ReadyAPI Downloads Center. (And if you’re interested in giving ReadyAPI a shot, request a free 14-day trial). Academy Certified TheSmartBear Academyprovides a set of courses to help you learnReadyAPI. Different course levels will fit the needs of learners with different skills. Review the ReadyAPI courses and enroll in the ones you like Once you complete a course, you will receive a special community badge – Academy Certified. Recently, we’ve updated theReadyAPIIntroductory Training course with the new March video. The course will help you learn the basics ofReadyAPI.Enroll today! MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS How many topics did you participate in last month? If you didn’t chime in on the following hot discussions, now’s the time! Fluent or English like assertions in Groovy? Remove project custom properties with TestRunner Log folder equivalent of Indicator.Clear() In IE11 , JSP (Java based application) pages not getting captured as CSS/Xpath in Name mapping How to 'GetData' from an xsd:string Run a test before other tests in a suite? NEW TECHCORNER ARTICLE Please check out the new TechCorner article created by one of our active contributors – JoostDG. Gmail OAuth 2.0 API Automation Example and example SubmitListener.beforeSubmit Thanks for sharing! All technical articles containing user stories, use cases, code samples, scripts, etc., posted to the ReadyAPI Community are stored under the TechCorner tag – to which you can subscribe to stay informed of all new posts. Definitely use this tag in your own posts if you have awesome technical material to share with the Community! That’s all for this month! Thanks so much for reading, and remember: contribute! The ReadyAPI Community is great as long as it has members like you keeping it vital and active. /SmartBear Community TeamMeet ReadyAPI 3.3
Hi Community, I'm happy to announce that we've recently released the new ReadyAPI version. It includes great improvements in Git integration, a new version of AppDynamics monitoring and some more awesome changes. Please readtheWhat's New in ReadyAPI 3.3article for more information. Where you can download ReadyAPI: if you are already a licensed user: download ReadyAPI3.3 for free other users:contact our Sales Teamororder a licenseordownload a free trial
TestComplete 14.2 is Here!
Hi TestComplete Community members! We're excited to share that the latest release of TestComplete is now available. If you're on active maintenance, 14.2 will be available for download in the SmartBear Portal. Just log in, and the license will be automatically generated for you. Here's what this release includes: • Simplified integration with Azure DevOps pipelines, and synchronization with Azure test plans. Learn more here. • Improved object recognition for faster test creation and better test maintenance. Learn more here. • PDF validation and text extraction for end-to-end testing (as part of Intelligent Quality). See it in action. See all Intelligent Quality features here. • Other features include:Test case tagging, support for CEF-based applications, performance improvements to speed up object recognition by 3x, improvements to logging and reporting, and support for Electron 6 and all latest browsers • Check out the TestCompletedocumentationto see all of the latest updates. Best, Amy Huie Marketing Specialist, TestCompleteJuly 2021 | Zephyr Scale Community News
Hi Zephyr Scale Community! This is a digest of the most exciting things that happened around Zephyr Scale in June. In this article, you will find: Zephyr Scale Community Leaders announcement, SmartBear Academy updates, the biggest forum discussions, and more! Let’s start. Q2 2021 COMMUNITY LEADERS All community members who actively participate in forum discussions and help others can become SmartBear Community Leaders. This is an elite status that we reward quarterly. Being a Community Leader encompasses many benefits: you get special recognition (and gifts) from SmartBear, elevated permissions on the community forums, a spot on the Hall of Fame, and more! Read this guide to learn the easy way to become a Zephyr Community Leader. With that, we’re happy to announce our first ever Zephyr Scale Community Leader: MisterB! Andy has helped an overwhelming amount of people in the Community already. He is a Zephyr Scale expert who generously shares his knowledge with others. Awesome job, Andy! As a thank-you for contributing so much to the Community. TestComplete Community Leaders:@Marsha_R,@AlexKaras ReadyAPI and SoupUI OS Community Leaders:@nmrao, @richie, @HimanshuTayal We’d like to present each of you with a $50 gift card from SmartBear. Way to go! SMARTBEAR ACADEMY The SmartBear Academy is an educational portal that offers free courses for SmartBear tools, and last month we added a new Zephyr Scale course to the mix: Getting Started With Zephyr Scale. This course is designed to help you get started with Zephyr Scale in no time. It touches upon the following topics: - Overview of test planning and execution in Jira - Managing tests at scale with test libraries and reusable test cases - Using advanced reporting and traceability functionality - Introduction to integrating with test automation ENROLL FOR FREE>> MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS We’re happy to see that the Zephyr Scale Community has been growing rapidly. We’re getting more questions asked and more people to participate in discussions. Check out the biggest discussions for June and feel free to take part in any of them: -Not able to add teststep -Seeking to Insert 75+ projects into Reporting filter easily -TM4J - Test case export and import -Zephyr Scale - Space between test cases/plans/cycles in list view -How to organize best Zephy Scale with multiple projects and a central Testing Team Got something on your mind that no one has brought up yet? Start your own discussion about Zephyr Scale! INSIDE ZEPHYR VIDEO INTERVIEW SERIES Were you able to participate in Inside Zephyr? It was a fun event where forum members could talk to each other, share their experiences of working with Zephyr tools, and a chance to meet the Zephyr Team via exclusive event interviews. If you didn’t catch them, you can still find the interviews under the InsideZephyr tag. Curious to learn more about the work behind this great tool? Definitely check the videos out. We spoke about Zephyr Scale, its past and future, upcoming test management trends, and more. That’s all for today. Thank you for reading this digest, and feel free to comment below. See you in the Zephyr Scale Community!July 2021 | TestComplete Community News
Hello TestComplete Community! At the beginning of each month, we post the most exciting things about the TestComplete Community and the tool itself. Let’s see what June has brought us! inside Testcomplete We’re continuing our series of interviews with the TestComplete Team members. This time, we spoke with TestComplete Developers Team Lead, Stanislav Egorov (SEgorov). Stas has been part of TestComplete development for many years and helped build a substantial part of the tool’s functionality. Check out our interview. If you like the video, don’t forget to give it Kudos and leave comments! WATCH THE INTERVIEW>> Find more Inside TestComplete interviews underTestCompleteTeam tag. Q2 2021 COMMUNITY LEADERS The first half of 2021 is over, and it’s been a productive time for the TestComplete Community for sure. It’s time to announce the quarterly Community Leaders! For the past quarter, these community members have been the most helpful and knowledgeable in TestComplete: Marsha_RAlexKaras For ReadyAPI and SoapUI OS: @nmrao, @richie, @HimanshuTayal For Zephyr Scale: @MisterB Congrats, folks! Your dedication to the SmartBear Community is amazing! Each of you will get a $50 gift card as a token of appreciation from SmartBear. A note for those who haven’t discovered our Leaders program yet: any SmartBear Community members can become a quarterly Leader. All you need to do is to be active on the forums – participate in discussions and help others! Being a Community Leader has a lot of benefits, which you can learn more about from this article:3 Simple Steps to Become a TestComplete Community Leader smartbear academy The SmartBear Academy has a plethora of great free learning courses for TestComplete. Completing them is a great way to learn the tool from scratch, master your skills of testing with TestComplete, and get certified! Each SmartBear Community member who earns a certificate in the Academy gets special recognition in the Community – a unique Academy Certified badge. Let’s congratulate everyone who passed the exams for TestComplete courses last month: Hassan_Ballan, AdrianDSV, osmarfer, Larry_M, OfficeApps, AnushaDesam, jfmol54, alijahluis, mramirezb, otomazeli, ArunReddiar, SiwarSayahi,awesomeme Great job, everyone! Don’t forget to share your certificates on LinkedIn and Twitter with a #SmartBear hashtag to show off your achievement! product updates We had not only one, but two updates for TestComplete this month! Version 14.90 in June, and version 14.91 just came out. Among the biggest enhancementsfor the two releases: Mobile testing improvements Support for iOS 14.5.1 and iOS 14.6 You can orchestrate parallel runs of your mobile tests – in the BitBar device cloud or on mobile devices controlled by a private Appium server easier – by using the Execution Plan Better support for timeouts when working with devices in the BitBar cloud The Mobile Screen window of TestComplete now shows both the list of connected mobile devices and recently used devices TestComplete can now capture images during parallel test runs on mobile devices managed by BitBar and local Appium Web testing improvements Support for Google Chrome 91 Support for Firefox 89 Use project and project suite variables to specify the URL of a tested website when orchestrating your parallel web test runs in the Execution Plan editor Microsoft Dynamics support SAP GUI support enhancements And more! Readaboutmoreimprovements here:What's New in TestComplete 14.91. If you have amaintenance subscription,go here toupdate to TestComplete 14.91. If you’re interestedinTestCompletebut don’t have it,request a free30-day trial. MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS Any great discussions you participated in last month? If not, then we’ve got some great ones you can jump in to – here’s our list of the hottest discussion for June 2021: - ReadyAPI timeout causing failure within TestComplete test run. - Data driven loop round collection of variables - Getting Error: Unable to navigate to the URL/page while launching tests -Electron application Object Browser shows only generic "Panel" objects in tree - Test automation on Virtual Machines That’s all for June TestComplete news! We hope you found this article interesting. Feel free to comment below – we’d love to get your feedback. See you on the community forums!June 2021 | TestComplete Community News
Hi Community! Welcome to the monthly TestComplete Community news. Let’s get into the May 2021 highlights! inside Testcomplete We continue our community introduction to the TestComplete team by talking with Emma Barbera, a Solutions Engineer focusing on TestComplete. I am sure a lot of you met Emma on the forums, her community name isebarbera We spoke about Emma’s work responsibilities, how she became part of the Team, and her personal experience of learning TestComplete. Check out the video interview below. If you liked the video, don’t forget to give it Kudos and leave comments! WATCH THE INTERVIEW>> Find more Inside TestComplete interviews underTestCompleteTeam tag. TOP COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTORS One month left until we announce the quarterly TestComplete Community Leaders. Becoming a Community Leader is easier than you think – contribute to the Community by posting replies and get Kudos! For now, let’s congratulate the top contributors for May 2021: Marsha_R,AlexKaras,ebarbera,mikef,MarkSchofer Great job! smartbear academy May was a big month for the SmartBear Academy: 1. We made updates so that it’s easier than ever to navigate. 2. We published 3(!) new free TestComplete learning courses: TestComplete Desktop Automation Engineer – Learn how to create automated tests for desktop apps from scratch! TestComplete Web Automation Engineer – Learn the specifics of creating web tests as it guides you through the test creation process. TestComplete QA Architect – This course will be extremely helpful for a QA Manager. It speaks about standardizing and deploying test automation, making the tests maintainable by all relevant stakeholders, and how to report test outcomes to relevant management tools. Enroll in any of the courses today, learn new things, and come back to the TestComplete Community to share your knowledge and get more Kudos! MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS Great conversations sparkle in the TestCompelte Community daily. Take a look at the biggest discussions for May, and feel free to participate: Read the status of .mht file which is already Exported Smart Bear Suddenly Stopped Recording Copying variable Table data missing after closing TestComplete Update Test Execution version using command line (via Jenkins) or in any other way Community enhancements Our goal is to keep improving your community experience. Recently we’ve deployed a new feature – now you can reply to the community posts you follow right from the email notification. You can accept solutions and give Kudos, too! Simply click the corresponding link in the email you receive from the SmartBear Community and you are good to go: Read more about this feature here and stay tuned for more improvements! That’s all for this month – and don’t forget to post any questions/comments you have below. Let’s have an awesome June!May 2021 | ReadyAPI Community News
Howdy all, and welcome to the May ReadyAPI Community News. From this post, you’ll learn the most interesting and hottest news from the ReadyAPI Community. If you have anything to add – feel free to reply under this topic. And of course, give me your kudos 😉 MEET THE READYAPI TEAM We continue the series of interviews with the ReadyAPI Team, and this month we’re talking with Ilya Avdeev – the Project Lead at SmartBear. We’ll learn more about the development process, how they select which features to implement, the most memorable ReadyAPI functionality, and much more. >>Watch the interview with Ilya Avdeev here Find more interviews with the ReadyAPI Team under the ReadyAPITeam tag. TOP COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTORS All of you made community contributions by asking questions, posting answers, or sharing interesting use cases. Please join me to congratulate the members who you gave the biggest number of kudos – it means that you liked their replies: nmrao,khanchett,richie,JoostDG,TNeuschwanger PRODUCT UPDATE We’re happy to let you know that a new ReadyAPI version is available (version 3.8) with several great improvements: Extended Kafka support Support for AsyncAPI definition And much more Read the What's New in ReadyAPI 3.8 article to learn about these and other upgrades. Download it now: If you’re a licensed user, get the latest version at the ReadyAPI Downloads Center. (And if you’re interested in giving ReadyAPI a shot, request a free 14-day trial). READYAPI TRAINING For those of you who has just started your journey with ReadyAPI, watch the ReadyAPI introductory training! It explains the basic ReadyAPI features you should to be aware of, and describes where to move forward. Watch the ReadyAPI Test Introductory Training class MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS Here are the hottest and most discussed community topics of the last month. Have something to add to them? Just post your reply: Getting error with dynamic extractions in Groovy script DataBase inserts while the overriding region with -e command line argument Use different format cells while create Excel file Can Rhino Javascript execute an external program? TestRunListener.beforeRun triggered multiple times That’s all for today. Don’t hesitate to post any comments if you have something to add. /SmartBear Community TeamZephyr for Jira is now Zephyr Squad!
We are thrilled to announce that Zephyr for Jira has a shiny new name – Zephyr Squad!Why the rename? We think Zephyr Squad lines up better with our other tool names, so everyone has a clearer path to understanding which test management solution in Zephyr family best fits their needs. This rename follows therename of TM4JtoZephyr Scalein November, completing our Zephyr product portfolio, which now includesZephyr Squad,Zephyr Scale, andZephyr Enterprise. You can find more info about the Zephyr Squad rename here.
