The Grinder is a load testing framework that makes it easy to run a distributed test using many load injector machines.
This release includes many fixes, translation updates, and a few new features.
In particular, please note the rules for resolving a relative path setting for the grinder.script property has changed. You may need to update your properties files.
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BUGS is an enterprise level web-based bug tracker designed with ease of use as its foremost goal, but also features a high level of flexibility for developers and administrators.
The BUGS team is happy to announce the release of our second BUGS 2 beta.
In this beta we finished up the “publish” module, which lets you publish news, links and articles, as well as made some big improvements in the “report issue”-wizard and several other key areas.
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eTraxis is a web-based bug tracking system written on PHP.
New features integrated in this release:
- new-722: Bulgarian localization.
new-729: [SF2008579] Mark all records as read
Bug fixes integrated in this release:
- bug-724: Import MYSQL41.SQL failed
- bug-726: References to other records are parsed wrong, when there are several of them.
- bug-727: Notifications are not sent via Lotus Domino SMTP server.
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CppTest is a small but powerful unit testing framework for C and C++. This release comes with several bugfixes as well as an improved HTML output module which now produces XHTML 1.0 Strict.
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A community-driven Ubuntu QA team has formally been created. The Ubuntu QA team is focused on developing tools, policies, and practices for ensuring Ubuntu’s quality as a distribution as well as providing general advice, oversight, and leadership of QA activities within the Ubuntu project.
We are broadly looking at enhancing the awareness and contribution to QA around Ubuntu as well as helping people interested in serious QA work find a common, collaborative, and open environment. They are looking to have a very diverse team and welcome people to contribute/join.
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Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS) has raised €2.47 million to build tools that will enable software companies and Open Source projects to benchmark the quality of their application’s source-code and prove its suitability for enterprise deployment.
SQO-OSS is a consortium of leading European Open Source projects, consultants and research institutions from Greece, the UK, Germany and Sweden that is developing a comprehensive suite of software quality assessment tools. These tools will enable the objective analysis and benchmarking of Open Source software.
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Open Source Testing was last week acquired by Kineo Open Source, an open source services company that I have set up with the help of the kind chaps at Kineo.
Initially, Kineo Open Source is offering popular open source solutions for website development, customer relationship management and learning including SugarCRM, Moodle and Joomla!
However in the coming months we’ll also be widening our support offering to include popular open source testing tools. Take a look at the existing services around the core products we’re currently supporting and you’ll get a flavour of what to expect.
It’s been a long term aim of mine to develop services around the site in order to better serve the needs of the testing community so it’s great to be able to finally realise this. It also means I’ll be able to put more effort into maintaining and improving the site now that it’s no longer a part-time concern but an important part of Kineo Open Source offering. We’ll put a formal press release out next week with more details, but I thought you should be the first to know the good news!
Mark
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New improvements to the leading open source test data generator:
Improved convenience by the new
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Watir 1.5.6 is out and mostly features bug fixes and minor enhancements. However there is one new feature that may be worth the upgrade: a speed improvement called “Zippy” speed.
Other features new since 1.5.3 (released last fall) include support for Chinese character input and the ability to locate more elements using multiple attributes.
You can now call the row method from within a table, also frequently requested. There are a number of other fixes.
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This release of issue tracker tool Project Dune is a focus on a better theme, functional improvements to the timesheet (you can now submit timesheets to the project manager) and the upgrade to Google Web Toolkit 1.5.0. There are some other small minor bug fixes.
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