We’re back! Well, its a been a while since the last post, but we haven’t been slacking. We’ve been hard at work overhauling and revamping the testCloud platform. From a completely new customer and tester interface, loads of new features, and many internal bug fixes, we’ve spent the last several months honing a platform that makes the most of the lessons we’ve learned here at testCloud, both from customers and testers alike. Over the next weeks, we’ll be releasing many of the new features into our production platform, but for right now we can give you a little taste of things to come.

For customers, you’ll be getting an intuitive interface that gives you a lot more fine grained control over setting up and managing your products and tests, complete with a simple 3 step wizard for test creation. We’ve taken customer feedback and done our best – and will continue doing so – to build a platform that makes it easier than ever for you to battle harden your software, how you want, when you want, with the testers and test environments you want, all as automated as modern computing technology can make it. As a tiny example of a place we’ve built in this automation, we’d like to give a short description of the new bug exporting function. Now, with the new export wizard, you can select your bug tracking system, and in a few steps, you can configure your bug tracker on a per product basis. Then once you run a test and accept some bugs, they’ll automatically be exported, complete with attachments and all into your tracking tool of choice. Right now the bug exporter supports Jira, Mantis, Redmine, plain email and CSV exports, but if you use something we don’t support just send us a request and we’ll get it integrated into our auto exporter for you. We’ve also got product management tools, improved analytics, new chat support, and many many other features that are too long to go into on this first post, but we’ll be covering them in detail over the next weeks so you can make the most of your testcloud experience.

If you’re a tester there’s no reason to feel left out. We’ve got just as many new features, complete with an all new interface, forms, notifications and more. The tester side of our revamp is codenamed “halo”, partly because we’re nerds and fans of the game but mainly because we want it to be something cool, that gives you incentive to use the platform more than the obvious monetary reasons. One of things we’re most excited about in project halo, are the all new app sections. They are detailed specific parts of a test, for instance for an online shop there would be a “shopping cart” app section, in addition to others such as “products overview” or “single product page”. Basically, these are the parts that make up a complete test and allow customers to narrow down and provide detailed descriptions of what they want tested for each area of their product. For testers, this means, you can now filter your bugs on a per “app section” basis during a test, so finding duplicates before you submit your bugs is a lot easier. Also, if you get started late or have to do something else for a while, you can easily come back and filter the “app sections” to see which ones have the fewest bugs and start working from there accordingly.