Provengo Tool: December 2023 Edition

Dear everyone,

A new release of the Provengo tool is out. The updates, improvements, and features are listed below, but the main thing, the “big picture”, the “30K feet view” is:

Better user experience, based on user feedback and our grand plan of making Model-Based test and design accessible and useful for everyone.

OK. So here’s what’s new:

• Visualizations
  • New visualization style looks tidy event on larger graphs (see title image)
  • Node order can be alphabetical or visual (that is, optimized for best visual order. But it’s a long sentence so we though we’ll put in in parentheses).
  • Improved visualizations for State Machines.
• Streamlining – making the tool easier to use
  • sample: Change --delete-previous to --overwrite, just like in the gen-book and gen-script commands.
  • gen-book:
    • When no title is set to a scenario, a title is auto generated, and a warning is issued.
    • Automatically invoke sample and ensemble as needed.
  • run:
    • Improved handling of pre/post/error scripts
    • Friendlier error messages for Selenium automation fails
  • create: Improved AI guidance files in new projects.
  • gen-script:
    • Automatically invoke sample and ensemble as needed.
  • report:
    • Command-line actuation logs are stored and presented in the reports.
  • No log is generated when using invalid project directories.
• DSLs
  • New command in bp-base: halt(errorMessage) marks a model state as violating a requirement. We’d try this ourselves but our models are never invalid 😇 (OK, ok, we wish)
  • Wait for, block, and generally work with events generated by maybe() using the maybeEvent(msg) object.
• New global flag --dev-mode makes is easier to develop UI automations.
• Also, fixed various bugs.

Grab your copy at our downloads page. Happy modeling/testing/spec-ing (these are all aspects of the same thing…… right?)