Failed invalid pair creation, should have been disallowed

There was a rare case where invalid pair creation should have been disallowed with an informative message and was instead failing with an error.

Spurious requirement deletion warning

They were some cases where Hexawise would warn you about a change effecting a requirement when adding some parameter values. The warning was unfounded and was caused by different types of line terminators on the values.

Line termination (LF, CR, CR+LF, LF+CR, etc.) is an interesting thing to include in your test plans in some cases!

Failed Excel exports

There was a sequence of events with expected results, requirements and auto-scripts that could result in exporting to Excel failing in some particular cases.

Blank auto-script steps are now included in HP QC exports if they include an expected result

In the past blank Auto-Script steps were excluded from the auto-script, but now they are included if they include expected results that apply to that test case.

Streamlined achievements interface

The "Your Achievements" screen is now streamlined and more clear about your next action to level up.

Auto-Script preview when the parameter name includes certain characters

The preview would not function properly in some cases.

Blank auto-script steps are now included in Excel exports if they include an expected result

In the past blank auto-script steps were excluded from the auto-script, but now they are included if they include expected results that apply to that test case.

Share a project copy via a URL wording is more clear

The wording in the sharing dialog for projects is now more clear about the option to share a copy of a project via a URL.

Hung auto-script page on some plans

Some unescaped characters were causing the auto-script page to hang on some plans. This has been resolved.

IE7 Operation Aborted error for some users on login

Some users were getting an "Operation aborted" error from the IE7 browser immediately after loggin in.

Thanks to Darpan for reporting the issue.

Auto-Script save or lose changes dialog wasn't functioning for some cases

Thanks again to master tester Pratibha for reporting this one.

Auto-Script expected results would not appear in certain cases where they applied

Thanks to Pratibha for discovering and reporting the issue.

Couldn't select 0 as the parameter value of a requirement

0 was used as the value for blank so this prevented you from selecting a parameter value that happened to actually be 0.

Thanks to Steve and Rasaiya for reporting the issue.

Tooltips on the actions in the requirements interface

The main actions in the requirements interface, edit, delete, save and cancel now have tooltips to go with their icons to make the action more obvious.

There was no new step and add step link after initial save of step 1 in Auto-Scripts

Another classic pair-wise defect, it had to be the first step, and it had to be the initial save for the defect to be triggered.

Thanks to Pratibha again for discovering and reporting the issue.

Auto-Scripts preview would disappear after it was collapsed in some plans

This is now fixed. Thanks to Fabio for reporting the issue.

Issue with the blank first step disappearing in Auto-Scripts if editing is canceled before an initial save

A classic pair-wise defect, it had to be the first step, and the user had to cancel w/o editing.

Thanks to Pratibha for discovering and reporting the issue.

Issue getting to the married pair link on the last parameter value of long parameter value lists

This has been resolved. Thanks to Alicia for reporting it.

Don't show Auto-Scripts preview panel when it can't be used

There is one case where the preview can't be used, that's in a read-only plan with no generated tests. In this uncommon case the preview panel is no longer shown.

Excel export issue in IE7

Some plans would not successfully export on IE7 only. This has been resolved.

Value Expansions now include the Parameter Value

Previously a Value Expansion of the Parameter Value "fruit" to "Apple", "Banana" and "Pear" would result in values in the test case of "Apple", "Banana" and "Pear". Now we include the Parameter Value too, with a dash separator, so the values are "Fruit - Apple", "Fruit - Banana" and "Fruit - Pear".

No horizontal scroll bar to get to top right menus on smaller browser windows

If the browser window is too small horizontally, a horizontal scroll bar is now provided to ensure you can reach all the right top menus.

Attack of the Frogs!

Hexawise now features an achievement roadmap that guides you on your journey from pair-wise novice to combinatorial guru.

The path from novice to practitioner, on to expert, and ultimately to being a guru involves taking advantage of increasingly sophisticated Hexawise features and showing your mastery of pair-wise test design techniques.

Send us your feedback and have fun learning!

Graphical glitch in table border in Create Tests and Requirements

A small graphical glitch has been fixed.

Acting on a deleted plan in an old tab

Now redirects you to the initial app start location rather than to the error page.