Welcome to the first dev blog post in 2019. I hope, that everyone had a great new year holidays and now ready for the new awesome stuff.

Pricing

More than one month ago, we’ve added a pricing page to the website. Choosing a right monetization model is a key to the startup’s survival. Unlike almost all test case management systems, we have decided not to use a pay-per-seat solution. This model doesn’t correspond with our beliefs, that the good software should help people make their work better and faster without overwhelming company’s budget.

All basic test case management features in Qase.io will be free. So no limits by users or projects or test runs. We are going to focus on features, that you need when your company becomes bigger and simple test case repository doesn’t fit your needs. Here is a list of some features, that will be available in a paid plan:

• Single sign-on
• RBAC
• Test case review
• Pairwise tool
• Unlimited file storage and API requests

You can see the difference between plans on the pricing page.

New features

Test plan/run creation reworked

We’ve received a lot of comments, that current test plan creation process is not user-friendly and the purpose of test plan in Qase.io in some cases is useless.

How it worked before update:

1. You create test plan (for example regression) and select test cases included in it.
2. You create a new test run and choose test plan with predefined test case list and start it.

Sounds logical, right? But now imagine, that you want to run a regression for a specific release and test new features added in this release. In the old scheme, you used to create two runs (regression and new features) or edit the existing test plan by adding new features and run it. Not so cool, right?

How it works now:

1. You create test plan as usual by selecting test cases in the new widget. Also, you can assign people directly from it and save in plan.
2. You create a test run. The same widget is here, so you make absolutely custom. Choosing a test plan will update a wizard with a predefined test case list (including people assignment), which saves a lot of time.
3. Run.

A little bit more words about how assignments work:

• Assigned test cases in the run are visible only for the person for whom they belong to.
• All team members see in run unassigned test cases. When they open some unassigned test case in the wizard, it becomes assigned to this person.
• You can re-assign test case from dashboard page using the dropdown menu.
• You can choose a default assignment during test run create and all unassigned test cases will be attached to the selected user.

Test suite tree

We have added a test suite tree on test case repository page. It appears if you have more than two test suites in the project. It is used for fast navigation in large projects with dozens of suites and hundreds of cases.

Test case duplication

A simple feature, that saves a lot of time. You can find duplication button on test case preview block in the repository.

Public report for the test run

Awesome feature, if you want to share test run report for a person, who is not registered in Qase.io. Public report page looks similar to test run dashboard but excluding sensitive information and links.

Here is an example of such a report.

Test run time tracking

Once you open a test case in a run wizard, time tracker starts counting the time you spend on a current test case. Once page open, it will continue working and stops only when you close the page. After submitting the result of test case check (success, failed or blocked), it adds information about total time spent on specific case and updates total time spent on the whole test run.

Also, you’ll have a hint for your test plans about average time required for it:

Other improvements

We have made hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes. All of them are made with a help of our users and their daily feedback. We want to say thanks to everyone, who helps us make this application better day-by-day! You are awesome! Thank you!

What’s next?

Drag’n’drop

The most popular thing in user requests is the ability to change the order of test cases in suites using drag’n’drop. We’ve been working on it and wanted to release in 2018, but have met some performance issues with big test case repositories. Anyway, we don’t give up and, as I think, soon we will release it.

RBAC

Many users ask about kind of ACL for their teams. We are going to provide the first version of RBAC in next releases.

Test case review

Cool feature, that allows you to review all changes into test model from other members. It requires the first version of RBAC to be released. Coming soon.

Integrations

There is a small debt, left from the previous blog post: YouTrack and Slack integrations. Very soon they will be available for installation.