Release Notes

Wiiisdom Ops 2021.3

We hope you all had a great summer and got the chance to recharge the batteries.

Usually I would welcome you to the latest edition of Kinesis CI.  But this time it’s a little bit different.  Following our rebranding, I’m welcoming you to Wiiisdom Ops for Tableau!

After focussing on adding quality in the product we had just acquired with 2021.1 and then working on enhancing existing features in 2021.2, the theme of this release is evolving with new things that you have been requesting.

As always, our goal is to make sure you trust your Tableau analytics thanks to our automated testing solution.

Please read below for more information regarding what’s new, compatibility updates, changelogs and resolved issues.

We hope you enjoy it.  See you just before Christmas for 2021.4 🎅!

Take care and stay safe!

New Features

Cross Environment Tests: Test in Bulk

I’m very happy to announce enhancements and evolutions made to Cross Environment Tests.  Probably the most requested features made by you!

The first enhancement is light but will save you a lot of time.  You now can add more than one Cross Environment Test task in a single test.

If your goal is to do regression testing between objects located on different sites and have different names, you now have the ability to compare these objects in a single test.

Pro tip!  Remember that all of our tests are saved in JSON format.  With a bit of scripting experience you can easily dynamically manage your tests and create tasks like these in bulk:

We also evolved by adding a new task: Multi Site Comparison.  If you have two sites that contain the same projects / contents and want to test a lot of viz in very few clicks, this is the task for you.

Here is an example.  You have Tableau 2021.2 in Production and the goal is to upgrade to 2021.3.  But first you want to test against regressions.

One option used by our customers is to backup a site in Production and then restore it on a different server for example: UAT.  Wiiisdom Ops will do the rest:

Select the entire site, project(s) or view(s):

The example below will test 189 views:

Final step is to choose a Target:

Voila!

Watch this space.  There is more to come in the future regarding Cross Environment Tests!

Write Test Results to a Database

Another big request is about improving the reports of tests you have run.

Currently they are very detailed and informative.  But they are sometimes difficult to share and they cannot be customised.

We have decided to give you full flexibility on how you chose to document your test results, analyse the results and how to share them.

To do this, we introduce a new integration: PostgreSQL.

Simply configure the new integration:

And consume the data in Tableau for instance:

Hiding and Encrypting Sensitive User Defined Variables

If you are using Drive Browser tasks, you are likely using User Defined Variables to store your username and password.

It is now possible to encrypt User Defined Variables:

Assert SQL: Improving the Target Database tab

We have simplified the interface to manage your Database Connections to a minimum to save you time and effort.

Also you will find a Test Connection button to validate everything is configured properly instead of finding out during the test.

Note: As always, make sure you have saved your JDBC driver in the right folder.

Contexts: Personal Access Token (PAT)

We now support 3rd party authentications to Tableau which are not using the Tableau Identity Provider.

Using Drive Browser SSO and Personal Access Token (PAT) you can now fully use Wiiisdom Ops (Kinesis).

Dynamic port for the Tableau Canvas web server in the CLI

The CLI should now use a random available port to start the lightweight web server hosting the Tableau Canvas when no static port is provided.

We can use the “0” port: the OS will automatically bind the underlying socket to an available ephemeral port.

The default value for the “–web-port” argument is now ”0” instead of “3000” if not specified.

This will be great for those of you automating your tests for example with Jenkins.  Very useful also for parallel testing!

Compatibility

Change Logs

(no change logs in this release)

Resolved Issues

Kinesis 2021.2.1

Compatibility

Enhancements & Resolved Issues

Kinesis 2021.2

Welcome to the latest edition of Kinesis CI!

A few months ago we released 2021.1, this was our first release since the acquisition of Kinesis CI.  It was all about quality and preparing us for our future ambitious roadmap.  We hope you enjoyed it!

With 2021.2, this time it’s about enhancing existing features you are already enjoying on a daily basis ahead of bigger things this summer in 2021.3.

As always, our goal is to make sure you trust your Tableau analytics thanks to our automated testing solution.

Please read below for more information regarding what’s new, compatibility updates, and changelogs.

Take care and stay safe!

New Features

Opening Kinesis: Full Screen by default

Because we know that’s the first thing you always do!  You’re welcome!

Adding a Task: Tooltips and Online Documentation

Scrolling through the list of tasks when creating a test will now display a tooltip providing a brief description of the task and a link to the relevant chapter in the documentation.

Functional Tests: Continue on Error

Current behavior: If a single task in a test fails, the test will not continue to the next task and will return a fail status.

You now have the ability to set “Continue on error” on tasks.

This new option is not enabled by default and needs to be enabled manually on each task.

Note that if the result of a test has a mix of Success and Failed tasks, there is now a new status of “Partial Success”.

Project Summary: Test Summary

Besides some cosmetic updates and resolving issues with hyperlinks, we have introduced two new columns:

• Last Run: Sorting the table in descending order
• Success Rate: (Success + Partial Success) / Number of Tests

Adding a Context:

Creating a new Test:

Feature Usage

We would like to understand how customers use our software and gain insights into where they are successful and where they might run into problems that we can address.

For example, this usage data can help us learn where features are commonly failing and allow us to make product changes to address those issues, or identify what portion of our user base are using specific tests, tasks or features to assist us with our roadmap.

Our hope is that you will accept this feature.

See our Product Usage Data Policy.

You can disable sending this data at installation time, or later. For details on how to do this, see the instructions on our Product Documentation.

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Enhancements & Resolved Issues

Kinesis 2021.1

Welcome to the latest edition of your favorite automated testing framework for Tableau, Kinesis-CI!

Today is a special moment for all of us at 360Suite as it is the first release since the acquisition of this amazing solution with so much potential.

As you can imagine, going through a process like this involves a lot of work. From the behind scene refactoring you will not see but had to be done. To the technical improvements to make this product future proof and able to handle the roadmap we have in mind.

What’s new in this release?

You may have notice the versioning has changed from the old 1.8.x, 2.x versions to a quarterly numbering. You should expect from us one release every quarter from now on. When appropriate and necessary, we will also release incremental hotfixes.

Our Mac users will be pleased with seeing their solution at parity with the others on Windows and Linux.

Finally, please read below for more information regarding the new features, compatibility updates and changelogs.

Enjoy!

Kinesis 2021.1.1

Compatibility

Enhancements & Resolved Issues

New Features

Context Creation: Default Values

The creation of contexts introduces new default values:

• Tableau Server URL*: http://
• Tableau Version*: [latest supported version of Tableau] – in this release Tableau Server 2020.4

Test Reports: Sorting Order

Once a test has run a report is generated by Kinesis summarizing the tasks that have run and if they have passed or failed.

These reports are now sorted in descending order based on the completion date / time.

Cross Environment Regression Test: Source & Target Contexts

One area of Kinesis Designer needing some TLC is the Cross Environment test. The source (formerly the basic tab) environment wasn’t flexible enough and the target screen was repetitive and misleading. In this release we introduce the following enhancements:

New: Source tab

• Simply select a context from your list of available contexts. Or simply chose to always use whichever is the Active Context.

New: Target tab

• No more typing and misleading behaviors. Again, simply select a context from your list of available contexts. Or simply chose to always use whichever is the Active Context.

Warning: These changes introduce new properties in the kinesis.json file of your test. Projects saved in 2021.1 will no longer open in earlier versions. Please take a backup of your projects before using a new version of Kinesis.

Email Notifications: Multiple recipients

Email notifications can now be send to multiple recipients by using a comma separator.

E.g.: user1@360suite.io, user2@360suite.io, user3@360suite.io

Description Fields: Consistency within Kinesis Designer

The Description field is now a consistently optional field everywhere in Kinesis Designer.

E.g.: Create New Project

Debug Window

• Debug information will now text wrap for easier reading
• A new and clearly visible vertical scroll bar will appear when necessary

Compatibility

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Enhancements & Resolved Issues