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This page documents our goals and feature requirements for our upcoming releases. Since we currently small team of active developers, timeframe for upcoming releases should be changed. Generally our main effort is targetted to Test specification and results. These features are corner stone of the project.

TestLink 2.1 and later (planned)

We will continue to hold high configurability, robustness and usability.Test specification and result reporting is our main interest for enhancement.

Planned New Features:

  • GUI improvements (remove frames)
  • Plugins - users can easily create own extensions and reports without change of core functionality
  • Improved automated test control
  • Requirements review process
  • Collaboration with Requirements tools
  • Performance improvement

TestLink 2.0 and later (planned)

Planned release: Late 2010

We will continue to hold high configurability, robustness and usability.Test specification and result reporting is our main interest for enhancement.

Planned New Features:

  • GUI improvements (ajax technology to improve performance; graphics; clean-up)
  • Test Specification review process
  • Test Specification: text patterns (templates) for test design
  • Notification (users could be notified for manitored actions)
  • Support for test automation via TestLink GUI
  • Document generator: more features

Smile TestLink 1.9 (comming)

Planned release: january 2010

This release will continue to integration the most wanted features (check our tracker to see full list). Especially related to Test Specification. We also nerly finished a refactoring of core libraries.

New Features:

  • Execution platforms (ability to to have spread of results according SUT in one Test Plan)
  • Test Specification: step-by-step structure of Test case
  • Requirements: versioning
  • Requirements: full compliance for n-depth structure
  • Infrastructure table (new feature)
  • GUI improvements (ajax technology to improve performance; graphics; clean-up)
  • API enhancement (more requests)
  • More reports
  • Document generator: enhanced options
  • New security layer

TestLink 1.8.0 - "Automation base"

Released: March 2009

This release will continue to integration the most wanted minor features. We also would like to open TestLink to easy implementation user features and cooperation with natural completive projects and software. This version brings API for collaboration with test automation scripts (experimental mode). The important part of this release is also stabilization of core functions after deep changes in TL 1.7.

New Features:

  • Testlink API - XML/RPC support for get Test results from scripts/external tools. Read more .
  • User audit (logging browsable via GUI)
  • Test prioritization
  • Basic support for test automation (experimental)
  • Performance improvement (execution)
  • More new interfaces to bug trackers

 

TestLink 1.7.0 - "Next Generation"

Released: Septemberl 2007

The 1.7 release should include some new features that was the most wanted by user. However the main effort will be pointed to restructualize database schema. The current schema has certain limitations and this step is highly important for future. Of course we are going to update the conversion script for data from older releases. No new development is planned (bug fixing only).

New Features:

  • Test Case history/ versioning
  • Unlimited structure of Test Specification
  • Support for other databases (SQL standard, generalized DB interdace). Postgres and MS-SQL are officially tested.
  • Improved user management (editable roles, Test project and Test Plan related rights)
  • Attachments
  • Revision of Standard terminology
  • Enhanced reports
  • XML import/export
  • Custom fields for Test Cases
  • Charts and graphs
  • Support for more Bug Trackers (Eventum, Redmine, Trac, Seapine)

TestLink 1.6.0 - "Localization and Requirements"

Released: December 2005

The 1.6 release includes some new features that was cutted off from TL 1.5 and a lot of minor improvements. Bug fixing releases will come (1.6.1, etc.). No new development or bug fixing releases are planned.

New Features:

  • Localization and Internacialization
  • Requirements based testing
  • Alphanumeric build
  • General bug tracking system
  • Mantis and Jira  interface

TestLink 1.5.0 - "Big Beng"

Released: May 2005

This is big milestone in internal code. Not too much new features but more more solid application. The release. 1.5.1 brings several bug fixes.

New features:

  • Appearance: Totally new GUI via Smarty, nearly valid (X)HTML + CSS
  • Performance: improved SQL performance
  • Huge refactorization (include new directory structure)
  • Improved test case auditing
  • Encrypted passwords
  • Updated htmlarea component
  • Improved security
  • Smarty Implementation

TestLink 1.0.4

The last version developed by originator Chad Rosen.This version was functional base for TestLink 1.5.

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