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 1.3.0¶
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 |
|---|---|---|
Transactions (messaging and processing) now support config elements to customise transaction creation |
GITB TDL | btxn, bptxn |
Configuration elements (config) now support variable references |
GITB TDL | btxn, send, receive, listen, bptxn, verify |
| User instructions now consider “string” as the default type and can be fully empty in case of simple messages | GITB TDL | interact |
| User requests now consider “STRING” as the default content type | GITB TDL | interact |
The foreach step now allows its boundaries (start and end) to be set using variable references |
GITB TDL | foreach |
| Actors can now be defined in test suites without endpoints | GITB TDL | Actors |
| Service handler implementations can now be specified with variable references | GITB TDL | Specifying the handler implementation |
The receive step now allows a timeout to be specified |
GITB TDL | receive |
| Communication with service handlers now supports authentication (HTTP Basic and UsernameToken) | GITB TDL and software | Specifying the handler implementation |
The SoapMessaging embedded messaging handler now supports HTTPS |
GITB software | SoapMessaging |
| Value ‘CONFORMANCE’ is now correctly considered as the default test case type | GITB software | Metadata |
| The actor name defined in a test case does not have to match the actor ID | GITB software | Actors |
| Domain-level configuration parameters can now be used in expressions | GITB software | Referring to domain configuration parameters |
Previous documentation versions¶
The following table provides the main highlights introduced in each previous documentation release as well as the link its access link.
| Release | Key highlights | Documentation link |
|---|---|---|
| 1.2.0 | First release for the GITB TDL documentation | https://www.itb.ec.europa.eu/docs/tdl/1.2.0/ |