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Squash Orchestrator 4.12.0 Release Note

Introduction

Squash Orchestrator is a set of micro-services to perform automated test execution workflows described in a specific format.

This release note describes the changes of Squash Orchestrator version 4.12.0 compared to 4.11.0.

Squash Orchestrator 4.12.0 was released on August 13, 2024.

New features

  • Issue orchestrator #419 Optimize channel allocation for jobs
    The orchestrator now allows parallel executions. This can be specified through the strategy.max-parallel option in a workflow. More information available here.

  • Issue orchestrator #506 Allow to use the newly available execution time for testcases in html reports
    New sections are now available for HTML reports to improve the exploitation of the execution time, such as BarCharts, ProgressBar, ScatterChart. The default one has also been updated with BarCharts and ProgressBar. More information available here.

  • Issue orchestrator #213 Autom/Devops: simultaneous execution with available or/and unavailable environments
    The orchestrator now allows jobs which do not have any dependencies to be selected as candidates for execution and no longer have a forced dependency with other jobs.

  • Issue orchestrator #521 [XML-report] Make XML report testcase items names unique
    To enhance compatibility with GitLab, testcase items now consist of unique names.

  • Issue orchestrator #538 Add reasons to WorkflowCanceled events
    A details.reason was added to WorkflowCanceled events to give more information about the origin of the cancellation.

  • Issue orchestrator #532 Move qualitygate plugin to the orchestrator
    The qualitygate is now a plugin of the orchestrator to make use of the new datasource endpoint.

  • Issue orchestrator #531 Restrict exposition of status functions
    Status functions (success(), failure(), cancelled(), and always()) are now only allowed in conditionals and insight model selection. More information available here.

  • Issue python-toolkit #136 Update workflow schema
    The workflow schema has been updated due to new/future components. It is now possible to set the timeout directly in the workflow through the timeout-minutes keyword. More information here.

  • Issue orchestrator #473 Logs from allinone does not give information about their origin
    Service allinone logs now expose their origin services to improve the readability.

  • Issue orchestrator #393 Allow jobs to be skipped
    Jobs now have access to the status skipped, for example, if a job has an unmet conditional.

  • Issue micronaut-java-plugins #73 🔑 Prepare bringing testcase execution time to TM (squash-micronaut-java-plugins)
    Issue micronaut-java-plugins #68 Prepare bringing testcase execution time to TM (otf-micronaut-java-toolkit)
    Issue micronaut-java-plugins #97 Prepare bringing testcase execution time to TM (otf-micronaut-java-plugins)
    The orchestrator now tracks the execution time of test cases. This information will be displayed starting with Squash 8.0.0.

Bug fixes

  • Issue squash-orchestrator #217 🔑 [SSL-Certificat]Can't run a orchestrator while using a CURL_CA_BUNDLE option
    Due to the change of the default user from the previous version, the orchestrator couldn't add the certificates passed by the CURL_CA_BUNDLE variable to the Java store. This issue is now fixed.

  • Issue orchestrator # 548 Incorrect phase for execution environments
    In some case, execution environments were shown at an incorrect PENDING phase, now a proper phase is notified

  • Issue python-toolkit #148 Incorrect handling of multi-lines variables on linux
    Issue orchestrator #248 A variable containing a carriage return will be considered as multiple commands
    Multi-line variables are now correctly handled.

  • Issue micronaut-java-plugins #79 🔑 Inconsistent duration calculated in uft parser compared to result generated by UFT with 1ms difference
    Issue micronaut-java-plugins #112 🔑 Inconsistent duration calculated in Robot parser compared to report HTML generated by Robot Framework with 1ms difference
    Uniformization of the ways parsers calculate the duration of the execution time.

  • Issue orchestrator # 482 Postman : folder name in the command line is not secured
    Some special characters broke the command line, such as double quotes for Linux and percentage signs for Windows. This is now secured.

  • Issue orchestrator # 377 Handle cleanup steps in case of ProviderCommand failure
    A step with a missing required input will now be considered as a step failure rather than an error that cancels the workflow.

  • Issue orchestrator #95 Run workflow with parameters returns error
    The orchestrator now correctly handles expression syntax on runs-on in a workflow.