Tag: release

We’re pleased to announce that a new version of Conical is now available. This contains a few small technical as well as some more UX improvements.

Highlighting of flattened Json

The highlighting functionality from the results text display has been brought into the flattened results Json display. This should assist in interpreting test results.

Better 404 experience

When navigating to incorrect links, the experience is now slightly better.

Data deletion

A bug was discovered whereby data wasn’t always removed from disc when a test run or evidence set was deleted. This has been rectified.

Note that any data which was previously left dangling is unaffected by this change. We are adding a piece of functionality to make it easier to clean this data which will be available in a future version.

As usual, if you have any requests, suggestions or comments then please do get in touch.

Happy testing!

We’re pleased to announce that a new version of Conical is now available. This comes with a range of UX improvements to make the tool more powerful. These changes include:

Results text / logs

When viewing these, the user can now apply filters to narrow down the range of rows which are displayed. This can be useful when a user is trying to find specific messages in the output. To further assist in this, users can choose to highlight rows which match their criteria. By using these 2 features, it should be simpler to hunt for the rows of interest.

Additionally, where the source data points are large, users can now use pagination to improve the responsiveness of the browser.

Results json

It’s now possible to flatten the results json and apply filters to the flattened data.

Improved UX for non-logged in users

Previously, when a non-logged in user clicked on a link, they were presented with an error screen. They were required to navigate to the profile page, log in and then click on the link again. To improve that experience, they can now log in directly from the error page.

Filtering

Filtering functionality has been added to audit trails and .net assembly information.

Additional files

Some tidying up has been made here to improve the consistency of experience across all usages of additional files.

As usual, if you have any requests, suggestions or comments then please do get in touch.

Happy testing!

Although the blog has been quiet for the last couple of months, our keyboards have been anything but. We’ve been working with our clients to add additional features to simplify their processes and improve their ability to present testing results to their clients. These new features include.

UX improvements

A lot of small improvements have been made to the tool to improve its usability. We’re always keen on user feedback, so if there are any aspects of the tool which you think that we can improve, then please do let us know.

Lightboxes for media

As part of extending the tool to better facilitate UX testing, users can now take advantage of being able to see any additional files using a lightbox.

Product dashboards

Users can now upload multiple dashboards per product (as opposed to previously only being able to configure the front page). This functionality can be thought of as a ‘mini CMS for test results’ allowing users to create customised presentation of the data, typically a dashboard per release or CI pipeline. These dashboards can contain standard HTML alongside Conical specific widgets for accessing test data.

We are currently using them to allow our clients to present an overview of a release candidate’s testing status, thereby allowing their project owners to be able to see the status at a glance.

We currently have support for embedding searches alongside their results. Additional widgets will be added as user requirements become clearer. If you have suggestions or requirements for additional widgets which would be useful, then please do get in touch.

As usual, if you have any questions about Conical or how we can help you improve your build, test and release processes, then please do contact us – contactus@conical.cloud.

Happy testing

We’ve been busy this last month helping our clients use Conical to improve their testing processes. We’ve got some cool new features coming out of this work will be announced and released shortly, but in the meantime, we’re pleased to announce a new version of Conical has been released.

This version has a few improvements, including:

• Improvements to the UX in the admin section
• improved user searching functionality
• long tags fail gracefully (BadRequest) rather than a server error
• server metrics – free space on mounted discs on linux now report the correct value

Additionally, we found a problem with product level aliases when combined with product level privileges. This has now been corrected and fixed.

If you would like us to assist you with your testing and release processes then do get in touch with us at services@conical.cloud. We can help all sizes and types of organisations and we relish a challenge!

As usual, any questions, suggestions or comments, please get in touch.

Happy testing.

We’re pleased to announce a new version of Conical has been released.

This version has a few new features, the main ones being:

• The internal storage of ‘creator’ for test run sets has been updated so that it reflects the current name of the user which uploaded the data rather than the name of the uploading user at the time that they uploaded data
• Usernames can now contain ‘.’

Note this is the 1st version of Conical for which automated Selenium tests have been used as part of the release testing process. We will provide more details on how we use Selenium in future blog posts / updates. As part of this testing, we’ve also added a range of additional features to the book of work which’ll help other users to use Conical to help with their UI testing.

Happy testing

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve just released a new version of Conical. The major features are:

• Ability to search both test run sets and evidence sets by tags through the UI
• Ability to see the history of a test run
• Improvements to the UI to stop reloading data

As usual, any comments, questions or feedback, then please do get in touch.

Happy testing

We’re pleased to announce that a new version of Conical has been released with a few minor bug fixes as well as the ability to see more information about the hosting environment.

As usual, to get started go to our docker page.

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve uploaded a new version of Conical to Docker.

This version contains a few minor fixes as well as a small update to the underlying DB schema.

The schema change will be applied by the tool automatically after the container starts up and the super user code is installed (see your container logs for this code).

To get started, go to our Docker page and follow the instructions.