We are pleased to announce that the DevTest 8.1 including CA Service Virtualization, CA Application Test and CA Continuous Application Insight 8.1 is generally available (GA) as of June 10, 2015. This release includes both fixes to reported issues as well as enhancements to our 3 core products.
This is also our first release of the DevTest solutions on our way to an almost monthly cadence of releases.
Here is a list of the notable enhancements in this release:
CA Service Virtualization 8.1
- Ability to record multiple virtual services at the same time in the DevTest Portal. Users can now view up to 40 recordings within the portal, creating them as needed. (Idea that spurred this enhancement: Create Multiple services using DevTest Portal)
- New REST DPH Editor during virtual service recording provides an quick way to view, add, change and prioritize the URI rules and their associated parameters before finalizing your REST virtual service. This increases the ability of your virtual service to match requests and provide a more accurate response based on your specific business needs. (Idea that spurred this enhancement: A very simple way to preview the result of a DPH execution)
- High Performance Code Editor for editing a virtual service response includes a live syntax checker/context aware code completion, automatic indent and outdent/formatting, search and replace with regular expressions, highlights for matching parentheses, copy/cut/paste and the ability to auto-format and toggle comments and word wrap. (Enhancement based on Idea: DevTest Workstation Scripting Enhancements)
- Copy & Paste Between Service Images, even those in different projects. (Based on idea: Copy and Paste Transactions from one Service Image to another)
- IBM MQ Native Support including:
- New Assets for IBM MQ Native: Queue Manager, Live Request Queue, Live Response Queue, Proxy Request Queue, Proxy Response Queue allows users to use the same pre-configured asset for tests and virtual service recordings without having to remember all the fields or type them in manually each time.
- Added support for live invocation mode in the Service Model
- Ability to use up to 4 different Queue Managers in a recording
- Ability to generate virtual service with live or proxy queues
- Support for RFH2 Headers
- New built in correlation schemes
- New Test Step
CA Application Test 8.1
- Improved REST API testing using Visual JSON editor
- Improved JSON assertion to report what is not matched
- Large Dataset dynamic file load
- Global Filter to allow Header Injection and replacement
- Support for Android 5.1 added
CA Continuous Application Insight 8.1
- New database validation for generated tests. Traditionally we have been told don't trust the system under test, verify at a second layer of the application. This is the first of several new features that will generate database validation steps for SQL Inset, Update, and Delete transactions associated with the test step.
- Improved template functionality allowing user to specify a test file vs just steps to be used when generating tests. The new functionality let's you provide test complete with companions, filters, datasets and steps. You just place CAI Template Place Holder as a do-nothing step and the test steps will be generated after the step. This means the generate steps can be in the middle of the test.
- Beta features available to Customer Validation Testers only
Enterprise Common Components
Documentation:
The full release notes are available here: Release Information - DevTest Solutions - 8.1 - CA Wiki
Download:
The release is posted and available for download on our support site. Instructions to download are here: Download DevTest Solutions Installers - DevTest Solutions - 8.1 - CA Wiki