PathWave Test Automation

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.23:

• Use PluginTypeSelectorAttribute for Mixin selector
  
• Add MacOS to Nuget Package
• Make IMixinBuilder an ITapPlugin 
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

OpenTAP Release Highlights

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.22:

• Added support for Visual Studio 2022
• Added new Mixin feature, which can be used to add (mix in) new functionality to Test Steps
• Added new Expressions feature, which enables use of mathematical and functional expressions within Test Step settings
• Added new Artifacts feature, which enables files or named data streams to be processed by other Result Listeners (artifact listeners)
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

OpenTAP Release Highlights

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.21:

• Optimized offline (Full) installer
• New Community License for EditorX
• Licensing updates to PathWave License Manager 2.7 and CCL 5.5.1
• Improver Package Manager performance
• Various bug features and and performance improvements

OpenTAP 9.21 Release Notes

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.19:

• Enable "Rename" in Resource right-click menu
• Hot key to open Settings menu
• Improve parent/child step selection behavior
• Improved license error messages

Highlights of OpenTAP 9.19

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.18:

• Windows 11 support
• Improvements to licensing system
• Various bug fixes and usability improvements

Highlights of OpenTAP 9.18

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.17:

• OpenTAP now .NET 6 compatible
• HelpLink attribute now supports URLs
• Improved Verdict handling between runs
• Various bug fixes and usability improvements

Highlights of OpenTAP 9.17

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.16:

• Introducing Smart Web Installer
• Optional support for PathWave License Manager (KS8400B licenses) of Keysight License Manager (KS8400A licenses)
• Support for Test Plans in Test Step Panel
• Ability to recall saved Editor Layouts
• Various bug fixes and usability improvements

Highlights of OpenTAP 9.16

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.15:

• Updates to Connections and Ports to support Switch Manager
• Improved support for PathWave License Manager (KS8000B licenses)
• Various bug fixes and usability improvements

Highlights of OpenTAP 9.15

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.13:

• Test plan and test step description
• Improvement to copy/pasting output values
• OpenTAP Sessions
• Merging parameters of numeric types
• Changes in the `tap package` command
• Test plan and test step description

Highlights of OpenTAP 9.13

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.12:

• Support Parameterizing Lists in Test Steps
• Focus Mode to simplify UI layout and execution
• OpenTAP  Community Forum @ forum.opentap.io
• Smart Installer for reduced download size @ http://packages.opentap.io
• Test Plan Reference Performance Improvement

Highlights of OpenTAP 9.12

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.11:

• Moving to KS8400 B Version to support PathWave License Manager
• Reduced installer size
• Migrating to new .csproj style

See Test Automation Release Notes for the full details

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.10:

• Improved Input/Output Handling in Editor
• CSV Package for Linux
• Improvements to Test Plan Settings Panel
• Improved updated behavior of installer
• Full Release Notes:

Test Automation Release Notes

https://doc.opentap.io/Release Notes/ReleaseNote_OpenTAP9.10.html
 

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.9:

• Test Plan Settings Panel
• Improvements to dependency resolution when building packages
• Significant performance improvements for short Test Steps and Test Plans

Full Release Notes:

Test Automation Release Notes

https://doc.opentap.io/Release Notes/ReleaseNote_OpenTAP9.9.html

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.8:

• Scoped Parameters
• Various bug fixes and usability improvements

See full Release Notes at: https://doc.opentap.io/Release%20Notes/ReleaseNote_OpenTAP9.8.html

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.7 (based on OpenTAP 9.7):

• Plugin support for authentication icon in GUI
• Support access to current TestPlan from IMenuItem
• Improved SCPI Instrument Settings
• Fixed SDK Examples
• Fixed issues building netstandard plugins

OpenTAP Release Notes
 

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.6 (based on OpenTAP 9.6):

• Help: Unclear example for Results Viewer/ Order Points & Order Series setting
• Missing Step settings description from help
• Improve Enabled<> view in test plan grid
• Fixed Editor Hangs When Instrument Fails to Load Due to missing DLL
• Fixed tap package list --version x.y.z does not work
• Fixed test steps do not appear after upgrading from 9.4.2 to 9.5.1
• Other fixes and improvements, see the release notes for further details.

OpenTAP Release Notes
 

Highlights of PathWave Test Automation 9.6 (based on OpenTAP 9.6):

• Improve Enabled<> view in test plan grid
• Fixed Editor Hangs When Instrument Fails to Load Due to missing DLL
• Fixed tap package list --version x.y.z does not work
• Fixed test steps do not appear after upgrading from 9.4.2 to 9.5.1
• Other fixes and improvements, see the release notes for further details.

OpenTAP Release Notes
 

Highlight of PathWave Test Automation 9.5 (based on OpenTAP 9.5):

• Make it possible to insert Test Plans as a Test Step (Test Plans can show up as available Test Steps).
• Performance improvements in Result Viewer when handling large amounts of measurement.
• 20+ other fixes and improvements, see the release notes for further details.

• Add .NET Standard project template to VS SDK Plugin
• Change SDK and templates to no longer save compiled output in TAP directory
• SDK Support for VS 2019
• SDK Template to be dependent on NuGet rather than %TAP_PATH%
• Various other performance improvements and bug fixes, see Release Notes for more details.
   

• Improvements and bug fixes for Sweep Loop behavior
• Improved UX performance for large Test Plans
• Added support for Continue Loop
• Various other performance improvements and bug fixes, see Release Notes for more details.

• Improved workflow for software developers using OpenTAP as it now exists as a NuGet package. This means that solutions using the OpenTAP NuGet package can now be opened, compiled and executed by new developers without the need for pre-installing OpenTAP as that is all being taken care of by NuGet.
• Published a docker image for OpenTAP (Linux version)
• See Release Notes for other features, improvements, and bug fixes

• Now built on OpenTAP open-source test sequencer
• Two Versions Available: Enterprise Product and now Community Edition for non-commercial users
• See Release Notes for other features, improvements, and bug fixes

• Improved filtering and bulk updates of Test Plans
• Added Select All options for Sweep Loop Parameter Settings
• "Dot" display is replaced with Dropdown for Resource Settings
• Performance improvements for SQLite database
• Performance improvements for Parallel Step
• See Release Notes for other features, improvements, and bug fixes

• Right-click menu allows for Enable/Disable of all Test Steps in Tes Plan Panel
• Added Package Cache for install performance improvements
• TestPlan doesn’t load anymore if required packages are missing to prevent accidental changes
• TAP GUI performance improvements for large Test Plans
• Performance improvements for license validation
• Various other bug and performance fixes. See Release Notes for more details.

This release includes bugfixes and infrastructural improvements as well as a few GUI enhancements. See the Release Notes for full details.

Highlights:

• Resources can be opened when a given test step needs them, not when a test plan starts
• PackageDependency versions now update when creating a package
• Enable/Disable of SCPI logging
• Resource properties can have placeholder arguments, so they can map to any compatible resource at execution time
• Using Shift to select multiple test steps no longer expands test steps that are collapsed
• The behavior of the Repeat button simplified
• Scrollbar now follows selected step when scrolling up with arrow keys
• Fixed incompatibility issue with Dependency Resolution with .NET 4.7.1 installed
• Fixed issue with installing packages from network drive
• Numerous other features, improvements, and bug fixes (see Release Notes)

Includes numerous performance improvements and bug fixes

TAP 2018 Update 2 Developer System Includes:

• Support that Test Steps can run actions after Test Step Run() completes.
• Possibility to jump to any Test Step at the current hierarchy level when you hit a break point
• Bundles view in Package Manager GUI
• Allow exporting to databases in Run Explorer
• Many other improvements and bug fixes

TAP 2018 Update 1 Developer System Includes:

• Support for multiple group levels in Step Settings
• Support for switch matrix rows and columns in the Connection Settings
• Significant performance improvements in the Log Panel
• Search highlighting in the Log Panel
• More than 80 other improvements and bug fixes

TAP 2018 Developer System Includes:

• Support for docking and undocking of windows/panels in the TAP GUI
• Support for custom GUI panels as plugins, e.g. make your own manufacturing UI or live data views.
• Support for plugins stored in custom folders.
• TAP Engine, CLI and Package Manager CLI, now .NET Standard 2.0 compliant.
• TAP 2018 can be installed side by side with your existing TAP 2017 version.
• Numerous other bug fixes and performance improvements.

TAP 2017 Update 2 includes:

• Allow instruments to use other instruments as resources.
• Support for signing assemblies when they are packaged.
• Package Manager GUI now supports searching across plugin packages.
• Package Manager can now source packages from multiple repositories.
• Check for dependencies between plugin packages during uninstall.
• Test Steps can now implement IResource (useful when used with Keysight Measurement Framework, KMF).
   

TAP 2017 Update 1 includes:

• PostgreSQL databases now supported for Result Listeners.
• External parameters can now be imported/exported to a file, also via CLI.
• Result Viewer can now import data directly from csv files.
• Search field in Run Explorer now supports auto completion.
• Performance improvements in Engine and GUI.
• Package Manager shows information about license requirements, provides simplified plugin installation process
• Compare Test Plans feature now make use of external compare tool.
• Combined installer for both 32-bit and 64-bit.
• Improved help content
• Resolved license issues
• … and more than 200 other improvements and fixes.
   

Test sequencer software with timing analyzer, result viewer, and other useful tools for test automation development.

Test sequencer software with timing analyzer, result viewer, and other useful tools for test automation development.

Test sequencer software with timing analyzer, result viewer, and other useful tools for test automation development.