Badboy 2.1 Beta 8 is Available!
This release mainly adds polish with a lot of cleanups to make the user interface smoother and fix small glitches here and there. There are also some feature additions, however, notably Navigations can now be set to fail if the element they are trying to 'click' is not visible, and Keys Items can now bring the window you specify into focus themselves if it isn't focused automatically. There are many other changes too, so take a look at the Release Notes for full details.
Badboy 2.1 Beta 7 is Available!
This release is primarily a bug fix release with fixes for several crashes and poor recording and playback behavior with common web frameworks and client side techniques.
See the Release Notes for full details.
Badboy 2.1 Beta 6 is Available!
This release includes numerous bug fixes and feature enhancements. Notable changes include:
- Support for flagging Screen Shots for Manual Review and Review Report
- Many improvements in handling and integration of external References (Bugs, Requirements) including a plugin for importing headings from Open Office documents
- Ability to save script outline and documentation in HTML format
- Fix for failure to launch Badboy on some Win XP installs
- Many other changes and bug fixes - see the Release Notes
Badboy 2.1 Beta 5 is Available!
This release includes numerous bug fixes and feature enhancements. Notable changes include:
- Support for Retrying Failed items in scripts
- Handling of File Downloads
- Fine tuning of recording and playback algorithms to avoid hangs and playing back too fast
- A number of fixes for potential crashes in unusual / specific cases
Badboy 2.1 Beta 4 is Available!
This release includes many bug fixes and feature enhancements. Notable changes include:
- Improved display of information for Assertion failures in HTML Reports
- Many performance improvements and bug fixes for load tests / Thread Items
- Problems with IE8 and File Uploads addressed
- New implementation of log views including features for searching and filtering and hot keys Ctrl+Shift+R, Ctrl+Shift+L for accessing (request log / Badboy log).
- Many other changes - see the Release Notes
Badboy 2.1 Beta 3 is Available!
This release is primarily a bug fix release with fixes for some critical issues, including crashes. In addition, a number of new features are added, including:
- Support for directly parsing CSV files (instead of needing to use Excel ODBC driver)
- Option to have Variable Setters extract content from the Runtime content of the page instead of original page source.
- Many improvements to HTML report.
Read the Release Notes for full details of changes.
Badboy 2.1 Beta 2 is Available!
This release provides a number of critical bug fixes for issues affecting Badboy 2.1 Beta 1 and also some much requested enhancements, including:
- Loading Javascript from external files
- Support for checking text in buttons, labels and other controls in native Windows dialogs
Read the Release Notes for full details of changes.
Badboy 2.1 Beta 1 is Available!
This release provides many bug fixes and enhancements with key features including:
- Improved support for IE8
- Improved Vista Support
- Recursive Spidering - easily spider through multiple levels of your web site
Read the Release Notes for full details of changes.
Badboy 2.0.7 is Available!
This release provides various minor feature updates, improved JMeter export support and fixes for a number of crashes.
Read the Release Notes for full details of changes.
Badboy 2.0.6.1 is Available!
This release provides a critical security update as advised by Microsoft (MS08-052). In addition several high priority bug fixes are included.
Badboy 2.0.6 is Available!
This release provides significant bug fixes and high priority new feature requests. Badboy 2.0.6 is a recommended upgrade for all users. Notable new features include:
- Break Points - Press Ctrl+Alt+B on any item in your script to set a break point
- Easy Variable Setter Creation - $ Button on toolbar automatically creates regular expressions to match text you select on page.
- Automatic Dismissal of Print Dialogs - Just check the box in Preferences to have Badboy handle print dialogs for you.
Read the Release Notes for full details of changes.
Badboy 2.0.5 is Available!
Badboy 2.0.4 is Available!
Badboy 2.0.3 is Available!
Badboy 2.0 is Available!
- Test Templates - Save a test as a template and reuse it over and over again!
- New XML Based File Format - Badboy can now write and read it's script in XML
- Script Tree Annotations - Problems in your script are now marked with Annotations, making them easy to find
- Draggable Tabs - You can now drag Badboy's tabbed views around to arrange them how you like
- Timing Report - See a detailed breakdown of the load time for components of your web pages
- Multiple Select - select, drag and drop multiple items in the script tree!
- Rich Thread Items - a brand new JScript-capable thread engine for load testing
- Improved AJAX Support - Much improved support for AJAX based sites!
- Unicode Support - full Unicode support for testing internationalized web sites
- Plugin Interface - Make plugins which can add features to Badboy itself!
- External Tools - Save External Items which appear in your Toolbox but live as independent files!
- References - Track references to bugs, features and requirements inside Badboy!
- See the Badboy 2.0 Overview for full details!
Badboy 2.0 is a major release and users with existing scripts should test the new version with their scripts before upgrading. Please backup your Badboy Scripts before using this version as it is not possible to load scripts in Badboy 1.6 after saving them with Badboy 2.0.
Anyone experiencing an issue loading or playing 1.6 scripts in Badboy 2.0 should report the problem via the Feedback Page
What next?
- Read the Release Notes for the latest release
- Go to the Download Page to get Badboy!