Hexawise recent updates

Hexawise recent updates

September 21, 2013
FIXED
Exporting missing tests in a rare case

If you use Hexawise in multiple tabs, it's possible that the export dialog is open while you do something in the another tab that causes the cached generated tests to be cleared out. This would result in an error trying to export from the dialog. Hexawise is now smart enough to detect this rare situation and adjust.

FIXED
Selecting to copy or use a read only plan as read only could result in a logout

The same security fix gone awry.

FIXED
Hiding the Auto-Scripts tutorial notice could result in a logout

An overly draconian security fix gone awry.

September 13, 2013
FIXED
Sticky panel auto-expand states

Most of the various panels you see in the Hexawise interface are collapsible and expandable and the current state is preserved so the interface stays how you last used it for that particular plan. There was a small exception to this in that the value pair panel auto-expanded as soon as you add a value pair (invalid pair or married pair). In this one case, where the panel auto-expanded, it wasn't sticky. So when coming back into the define inputs page for that plan the panel would be collapsed again.

This is a classic pair-wise defect. Value Pair panel collapse state is sticky? Check! Value Pair panel collapse state is sticky when value pair panel auto-expands due to value pair addition? Broken!

Broken no more.

FIXED
Insufficient parameters for mixed strength selection

When generating mixed-strength tests, you can't select fewer than n parameters to receive n-way coverage. For example, it doesn't make sense to ask for 3-way coverage on just 2 parameters. Hexawise has a user message explaining this, but this was covered up (literally in this case) in the user interface by a regression that happened when we changed how test generation results are retrieved. This issue is fixed.

Thanks to Geordie for pointing out the problem.

IMPROVED
Faster initial view of mixed-strength tests

Mixed-strength tests start out with all parameters set to 2-way strength, but mixed-strength tests for this were still generated even if 2-way tests had already been generated. Rather than computing these as mixed-strength, Hexawise will now re-use 2-way, or 3-way or n-way tests from cache that match an all n-way mixed-strength test request.

September 12, 2013
CHANGED
Export type (Excel or HPQC) is no longer in the export file name

The export type has to be represented somewhere, since you can export both at the same time into 1 zip file, but now the export type is in the directory name rather than the file name so the file name is more descriptive of the tests inside (file name is the test plan name and the strength of the tests, assuming it includes generated tests).

IMPROVED
OPML import robustness

OPML importing is much more robust to a variety a variations in how the mind mapping or outlining tool might have exported the test plan inputs as OPML. Automated regression tests now in place on this to boot! QA FTW!

FIXED
Ranged parameter values parsed incorrectly in rare case

Did you know when adding a new parameter you can ignore the instructions to enter the values one on each line and instead enter them comma delimited? Probably not, but you can, and this impacted our range parsing code in some cases. Entering a range like so worked fine:

1,000-10,000

But entering a range like so (with the white space) did not work:

1,000 - 10,000

It resulted in 3 values "1", "000 - 10" and "000" rather than a single value range.

This means to trigger this defect you needed to do a parameter add, with only 1 parameter value that happened to be a comma delimited range, and that happened to have white space in it. That's somewhere between a 3-way and 4-way fault depending on exactly how you would have modeled the tests.

September 8, 2013
FIXED
Overzealous automatic value pair creation

Hexawise creates value pairs on your behalf in some circumstances when you create constraints that imply other logically necessary constraints. There were two cases where Hexawise would complain about not being able to create these because they already existed. Of course them already existing is just fine and it shouldn't have complained.

FIXED
Expanding and collapsing projects could result in a logout

An overly draconian security fix gone awry.

IMPROVED
Massive...

see above

IMPROVED
Massive speed and reliability improvements in Analyze Tests feature

It's massive in the same way the Sun is massive.

Did we mention it's massive?

August 23, 2013
FIXED
Analyze Tests interaction sequence failure

Accessing Analyze Tests with a certain sequence of user interactions would cause Analyze Tests to stick at 0% complete. (Sequencing issues are an interesting form of pairwise defect to think about including in your tests).

FIXED
Don't allow a plan or project to be renamed as blank
IMPROVED
Expected results editing in Auto-Scripts

The adding and editing of expected results in Auto-Scripts is now more robust with detection of unsaved edits when navigating away from the editing before it's completed. It's now consistent with editing Auto-Script steps.

IMPROVED
Space for defining inputs

The text area for defining test inputs (parameter add, parameter edit, bulk add, and bulk edit) now sizes to match the size of the top panel giving you more room to edit your parameter values.

August 12, 2013
IMPROVED
Export a mind map achievement

The export a mind map achievement has a more clear description and a link to the help file about exporting.

FIXED
Graphical glitches on "Your Achievements" page

In some cases and on some screen resolutions the 2 panels in the "Your Achievements" page would be inconsistently sized.

FIXED
Issues with ranged value expansions

There were some cases (involving mixed use of delimiting commas and no commas) where value ranges would not expand to particular values. There were also cases where the distribution of: lowest value in the range, highest value in the range, random value in the range, then repeat, would not be used.

August 7, 2013
IMPROVED
Auto-Script editing

The UI is now more consistent about showing a "View" or "Discard" option when you quit editing steps before completing them. The same handling is now provided for editing expected results as well.

Unsaved expected result edits are now saved (after a prompt) when navigating away from the auto-scripts page.

IMPROVED
Wait spinner for long loading sets of test cases

For large sets of tests that are already generated and cached but take some time to render for display, the rest of the page now renders, and there is a waiting display for just the portion of the page waiting on the rendered tests.

FIXED
Incomplete message in conflicting plan name dialog

If you attempted to create a plan with a name that already exists for one of your plans the resulting dialog was incomplete and did not provide a full explanation of why you could not create your plan.

IMPROVED
OPML exports get .opml extension

We were temporarily using .xml as the extension for exported .opml files as a work around for them not emailing properly with their proper extension. This causes issues with some mind map tools though so we've gone back to the .opml extension and we zip them if they are emailed.

Thanks to Roon for pointing this out.

August 5, 2013
FIXED
Auto-Script expected results incorrectly removed

There was a case where auto-script expected results that referred to the last parameter value could be removed when saving a bulk edit with no change. Thanks to Scott and his team for reporting this.