This has been a very exciting year for us here at Gurock Software and we are truly grateful to have worked with such great customers and partners from all over the world this year. We wish everyone happy holidays and a happy and successful new year 2012 and we look forward to working with you again next year.

Please note that we don’t currently have plans to support SmartInspect for Delphi for Mac OS X and other cross platform targets. As the SmartInspect logging library for Delphi makes heavy use of the Windows APIs for performance reasons, we first want to wait on how popular the Delphi cross platform capabilities will become. If Delphi for Mac OS X becomes more popular we will certainly consider supporting this environment as well.

If you are a registered customer you can download the new version from our customer portal. You can also download the updated trial version to try SmartInspect for free. Just let us know in case you have any questions or feedback about the new version.

• Ability to connect to the Router’s and Console’s named-pipe server from unprivileged user accounts (e.g. ASP.NET under IIS)
• Support for regular expressions in filters (by prepending strings with “re:”)
• Option to find previous log entries for entered search terms
• Support for resizing the Add/Edit Watches Graph dialog (this is especially useful if you are working with larger names)

Please read the announcement in our forum for the full list of enhancements and bug fixes. To download the new version, please either access your customer portal account or download the new trial version.

We wish all customers, partners and vendors happy holidays and a good start into the New Year! It has been an amazing year for us here at Gurock Software and we’ve enjoyed working with all of you. We’ve quite a few things planned for 2011 and we are looking forward to working with you again next year.

Defect plugins

TestRail’s new defect plugins can be used to implement an improved integration with bug and issue tracking tools. Defect plugins can implement different capabilities such as pushing a defect from TestRail or looking up bug reports via the bug tracker’s API. Plugins can be configured globally or you can use project-specific settings, making it easy to use different bug or issue tracking tools for different projects.

Configuring a defect plugin in TestRail

It is possible to customize or build your own defect plugins for TestRail, allowing you to integrate the application with custom solutions or to modify our plugins for your needs.

Pushing defects

One task testers often have to perform during testing is creating bug reports for issues they found. So one of our goals with the new defect plugins was to make reporting bugs as easy as possible. This resulted in the new Push defect feature, a way to directly push bug reports to your bug tracking tool from TestRail.

Pushing a defect from TestRail to Jira

The Push Defect dialog automatically reuses the entered test comment and pre-fills all the defect details. It also automatically remembers the selected project and project area for you. The nice thing about this feature is that the dialog can be completely customized or extended by modifying the plugin script. So if you have heavily modified your bug tracker (with new fields, forms and work flows), TestRail’s defect plugins can be modified to seamlessly work with your customizations.

Looking up defects

Besides pushing bug reports from TestRail to your bug tracking tool, TestRail now also supports querying defect information via your bug tracker’s API. This allows testers to look up bug reports from TestRail without having to leave the application, resulting in a much improved workflow.

Looking up bug reports in TestRail

Built-in plugins

We already support most web-based bug and issue tracking tools with our existing URL-based integration. However, we wanted to make it as easy as possible to get started with TestRail’s new defect plugins and we built ready-to-use plugins for popular tools. TestRail 2.2 ships with plugins for:

• Jira test management
• FogBugz test management
• Bugzilla test management
• YouTrack test management
• Trac test management
• Gemini test management

TestRail also ships with a general-purpose email defect plugin that allows you to integrate TestRail with tools that support the creation of bug reports via emails. We are also considering adding additional plugins to future TestRail versions and it’s also possible to build your own plugins. If you would like us to add a plugin for your favorite bug tracker, please let us know.

Other changes

While the focus of this release has been the improved bug tracker integration, we also added a list of smaller improvements, changes and bug fixes. For example, TestRail now automatically sets a test to failed if you mark one of the test steps as failed. It’s now also easier to register custom translations and locales if you want to localize TestRail. Other changes include opening defect links in new browser tabs, using the default values of test case fields when adding cases from the suite pages and improving our stylesheets to work with more web browsers. To view the complete list of changes for TestRail 2.2, please see our announcement forum.

Getting the new version

Existing customers can download the new version from our customer portal. New users can download TestRail or request a hosted trial on our website. If you want to update your existing TestRail trial (download or hosted), please contact us and we will provide you with the necessary details. Please refer to TestRail’s Admin Manual on how to upgrade an existing installation. If you have any questions about the new version, please let us know.

The new website is part of an effort to make the documentation easier to access and will help us publish new articles more easily in the future. We are also looking into ways to bring the SmartInspect documentation online to make it easier to link and search SmartInspect’s reference documentation.

Gurock Software Documentation

Gurock Software Jobs

Ideally, students qualifying for the open positions are located in Germany as this makes it easier to coordinate the projects. But we might also consider exceptional applications from other regions and countries. If this sounds interesting to you, we would love to hear from you. If you know someone else who would be a good fit for the positions, please forward this posting.

A small selection of user groups we sponsored in the past

Additionally, if you want to present and demonstrate SmartInspect in front of at least 15 attendees at a user group meeting or similar event, please contact us and we are happy to provide you with an extra SmartInspect license.

Learn more: SmartInspect licenses for user groups

Additionally, we wanted to separate DelphiFeeds.com and our blog from our website for performance and security reasons, so we also put those sites on different machines. The good news is that our websites should become a lot faster because of the server move, especially DelphiFeeds.com. If you notice any problems, we would appreciate a quick email.