Change history

The current section provides an overview of new and notable changes in the latest GITB TDL documentation release as well as access to all previous documentation versions.

What’s new in release 1.14.0

The table that follows summarises the notable changes in the latest documentation release that matches the latest GITB TDL and GITB software release. In each case the “type” indicates whether the change applies to the GITB TDL as a whole or specific improvements in the GITB software (or both) . In addition, references are provided to the relevant sections for more information.

Description

Type

Relevant sections

The receive elements of interact steps support the inputType and mimeType attributes to determine the type of input control to use.

GITB TDL

interact

The instruct elements of interact steps support the mimeType attribute to determine downloaded file extensions and editor syntax highlighting.

GITB TDL

interact

Previous documentation versions

The following table provides the main highlights introduced in each previous documentation release as well as its access link.

Release

Key highlights

Documentation link

1.13.0

Support for steps to be defined as hidden and collapsed, display of group steps, and option to display process steps.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.13.0/

1.12.0

Support for sharing resources and scriptlets across test suites, new RegExpProcessor and CollectionUtils processors, extensions to the TokenGenerator and SchematronValidator.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.12.0/

1.11.1

Referencing a missing variable evaluates as an empty string.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.11.1/

1.11.0

Stop on errors, test case output messages, support for verify output data, new TEST_SUCCESS variable, and custom interact titles.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.11.0/

1.10.2

Maintenance release with no changes.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.10.2/

1.10.1

Maintenance release with no changes.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.10.1/

1.10.0

Dynamic test case imports, custom titles, new log step, imported documentation and extensions to endpoint parameters.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.10.0/

1.9.1

Maintenance release with no changes.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.9.1/

1.9.0

Automatic variable creation from assign steps, rich documentation for test cases and test suites and new Base64Processor.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.9.0/

1.8.0

Support for hidden actors, warning-level verifications and extended test step documentation.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.8.0/

1.7.2

Support for any expression to be used as a template (asTemplate).

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.7.2/

1.7.1

Maintenance release with no changes.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.7.1/

1.7.0

Organisation and system properties and extended configuration options for parameters.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.7.0/

1.6.1

Extensions to the TokenGenerator to better handle timestamps and documentation on template file use.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.6.1/

1.6.0

New TokenGenerator and XmlMatchValidator handlers, optional processing transactions, and selection lists for the interact step.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.6.0/

1.5.0

Improved and new embedded validation handlers (XPathValidator, RegExpValidator), improvements to steps (exit, if) and management of reasonable defaults.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.5.0/

1.4.1

Extensions to HttpMessaging capabilities.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.4.1/

1.4.0

Significant configuration and parameterisation extensions, improved SOAP support and introduced timeouts.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.4.0/

1.3.0

Release 1.3.0 for the GITB TDL documentation.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.3.0/

1.2.0

First release for the GITB TDL documentation.

https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.2.0/