Hexawise recent updates

Hexawise recent updates

May 8, 2014
IMPROVED
Password reset usability

The same usability features in the registration and password update interface are now available password reset interface.

FIXED
Very long parameter names are now truncated in the Auto-Scripts parameter drop down

Thanks to Robin for pointing out this issue in the forums.

April 29, 2014
FIXED
"Relax" with an unsaved step

The "Relax" auto-generate auto-scripts button would appear as soon as you had a step 1 that met the criteria, but the button didn't actually work until you saved the step. Now it works to save the step if it wasn't saved before.

IMPROVED
Removed rounding from analysis percentages

The pair-wise coverage percentages are now floored to 1 decimal of precision rather than rounded so you won't have multiple tests that show 100.0% coverage in a large plan.

Thanks to Robin for pointing out how this could be confusing.

FIXED
Updated practicum quiz answers

The practicum quizzes answers on security settings now match the new security setting labels.

April 24, 2014
FIXED
Parameters are once again de-duplicated in the parameter re-use drop down
FIXED
2-way test results shown for mixed-strength tests set with every parameter as 3-way

This was a pairwise defect in the caching logic. Hexawise tries to be smart and show you existing cached n-way tests if it has them and you ask for mixed-strength tests with all the same strength. There was a defect when this all the same strength was not 2-way though.

Thanks to Vikramjit and Vikas for reporting this issue.

IMPROVED
Bigger click target for auto-script expected results "Add" and "Save" actions
NEW
Warning about unused value expansions

If you accidentally create a value expansion that doesn't correspond to a parameter value, or you edit or update a parameter value that has a corresponding value expansion, orphaning it, you know get an informative message letting you know.

April 16, 2014
FIXED
Unsaved requirements dialog

Was newly empty except for a spinner in some cases. No longer.

FIXED
Login page when the browser window is small

There were graphical glitches if the browser window was sized very small.

April 5, 2014
FIXED
Issue saving edited requirements in some test plans

Thanks to Melissa for letting us know about the issue.

April 3, 2014
FIXED
Bulk Add partial success and duplicates

When using the bulk add feature with some parameters that had greater than 8 values, a partial update would be applied before the handy warning dialog. Canceling the add would leave you with some (the small) parameters bulk added, and bypassing the warning would leave you with some parameters added in duplicate.

This is a classic pair-wise defect. To trigger it requires you to have params with > 8 values that occur after your smaller params in the plan, and to perform your adds using bulk add rather than single add.

This demonstrates that pairwise designed tests are only as good as the variability that's been identified. This is probably the most heavily tested part of Hexawise, with a strong battery of tests that have been automated, but the order of the large parameters compared to the small ones was never identified as a variation.

FIXED
UI glitch in sample plan modals

The bottom of the explanatory modal dialog was cut off leaving no white space. White space is back.

March 28, 2014
IMPROVED
Excel line breaks specific to the version of Excel you're using

There is now a setting in the export dialog to pick your specific version of Microsoft Excel for Excel and HP QC exports so that any line breaks you have in your expected results or auto-scripts will be respected by Excel.

Thanks to Robin and Yue for nearly concurrent prompting in the forums asking for this feature.

FIXED
Errors in requirements page

Our automated error reporting alerted us to some uncommon but recurring errors being experienced in the requirements page and these were addressed.

IMPROVED
Sharing dialog is easier and pleasier

Continuing the theme from last week, we revisited the sharing dialog itself and spruced up the UI to be more pleasing to the eye and changed the wording to be easier to understand.

March 26, 2014
IMPROVED
Improved wording in the Start/Finish prompts in Auto-Scripts

Words more good. Me happy.

FIXED
Warning dialogs in Firefox

Some users of up to date version of the Firefox browser have experienced warning dialogs for the last couple weeks. These are resolved.

Thanks to John for alerting us to this issue.

March 19, 2014
IMPROVED
Easier plan sharing

Sharing plans in Hexawise has always been project based, and while that's not changing, we did make it much easier to share your plans. There is now a share link in the UI that takes you directly to the project sharing options, or if you're in a private plan, gives you the option to make a project for the plan.

March 16, 2014
IMPROVED
Auto-Script expected results are included in the CSV export
FIXED
Issue with the wrong strength being displayed in some cases in the auto-script test preview strength picker
FIXED
Issues completing certain achievements

A couple of the achievements on the path to Hexawise Guru were not ticking off properly. Thanks to Ed for pointing this out in the forums.

March 15, 2014
NEW
Brand New Website

Hexawise.com is sporting a brand new website. Check out the new look!

February 26, 2014
NEW
Rename parameters without breaking your requirements, value pairs and auto-scripts

You can now update a parameter name (change only the parameter name in the single parameter update, not using bulk update) and it will update the parameter reference in any requirements, value pairs and auto-scripts, rather than warning you and then deleting them.