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New Englanders aren’t known for doing well in hot weather, and a recent heat wave has kept us all inside in the air conditioning. Since our engineers can’t go outside without melting or vaporizing, they’ve been inside keeping busy creating some cool new features. Let’s take a look:

Attachment Viewer
Our testers love uploading attachments with their bug reports.  Whether it’s a screenshot or a video, testers know that an attachment can make a bug report easier for our customers to understand and visualize.

Until now, customers have had to download every attachment individually and then open them on their desktops. To make this process faster and easier, we have launched a nifty new attachment viewer that works inside our platform. Now customers and testers can view video and image attachments with a single click, toggle between them easily, and download the ones you want to keep. And for non-multimedia files like spreadsheets and documents, we still make it easy to download the files and open them from your desktop.

Take a look at this short 30 second video showing off the new attachment viewer:

More Interactive Reports
For customers, the coverage report is a quick way to see how your test cycle is shaping up in terms of coverage and bug counts. However, the old coverage report page presented a lot of data in one place. With this release, we’ve made it easier to focus on the reports that matter the most and see them as either in the form of interactive charts or tables of hard data.

Now you can choose your favorite reports and build your own reporting dashboard. On the “Reports” tab of a test cycle, click the “Select Report” button to show or hide the reports that matter to you. By clicking a table or graph toggle button in the report window, you can switch between the two views and find the right mix of information for you. Click “Save Layout” and now you have your very own reporting dashboard.

Quicker Bug Navigation
We’ve had a lot of customers ask us for ways to make it faster to approve or reject a long list of bugs and test cases.  With this update, we’re changing the way our platform behaves after you change the status of a bug. Now when you approve or reject a bug (or test case), the next bug in the list will automatically load for you.

And if this new default doesn’t suit your needs, you can switch back to the old behavior. Just click Accounts & Settings, choose User Setting, and uncheck “After updating a bug’s status, show the next bug.”  If you have questions, just contact your uTest project manager.

Wrap-up
Of course, we also fixed a number of bugs and made a lot of behind-the-scenes improvements.  Thanks to our testers and our customers for their great feedback.

Have a great idea for our future product releases? uTest community members can join our tester forums and check out our Platform Feedback section. Customers can contact their project manager directly or drop us a line.