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 1.15.1

Note

Maintenance release: Release 1.15.1 is a global maintenance release that did not change the GITB TDL. The latest features presented in this section correspond to the latest release that did introduce changes, i.e. release 1.15.0.

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
Messaging steps now support the reply attribute to indicate that they should be presented as reply messages.	GITB TDL	send, receive, listen
Support for automatically converting non-list values to lists (as single-item lists containing the value).	GITB TDL	Type conversions
Support for automatically converting lists and maps to strings.	GITB TDL	Type conversions
The log step now supports a level attribute to define the message’s severity level.	GITB TDL	log
Test cases now support the logLevel attribute to control which messages are included in test session logs.	GITB TDL	Steps
The severity level of verify steps can be now be provided dynamically via variable reference.	GITB TDL	verify
The process step now enables simplified usage through the input, operation and output attributes.	GITB TDL	Simplified processing steps
The call step now enables simplified usage through the input and output attributes.	GITB TDL	Simplified call steps

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
1.15.0	Logging levels, simplified process and call steps, and styling of replies in messaging steps.	https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.15.0/
1.14.1	Maintenance release with no changes.	https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.14.1/
1.14.0	Syntax-aware processing on interact steps via the mimeType attribute and support for several input types via the inputType attribute.	https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.14.0/
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/