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New and enhanced features in 4.1.4 (click to view videos):

Connecting to the iTest NTAF server — The NTAF server (an XMPP server that is installed and managed by your IT administrator) handles communication between Spirent iTest and a session with an NTAF tool (for example, TestCenter NTAF).
Launching the NTAF proxy — You launch the NTAF proxy to enable Spirent NTAF tool (for example, Spirent TestCenter) to communicate with the NTAF server.
Spirent Landslide NTAF sessions — You can use Spirent iTest to automate Spirent Landslide tests. Watch this short video to learn nearly everything you need to know to get started.
Spirent TestCenter NTAF sessions — You can use Spirent iTest to automate Spirent TestCenter tests. Watch the short video to learn nearly everything you need to know to get started.

New and enhanced features in 4.1.x releases (click to view videos):

Creating custom device templates for a topology map
Display Current Step During Test Execution — During execution and when you pause execution, the Test Case editor highlights the currently executing step and indicates it with a yellow arrow in the left column. You can turn this feature on and off with a preference setting in Fanfare > General > Execution.
HP Quality Center 10 adds parameters directly — QC 9.2 has technical limitations that did not allow iTest to add parameters to the default location in QC 9.2. Instead, the parameters were added to a special design step. QC 10.0 does not have this limitation, so iTest can now publish parameters to the proper location in QC.
Including charts when exporting test reports — When you export test reports as HTML, iTest includes all charts as JPEG images in the first step of the test case.
iTestRT support for Quality Center — The qc options for iTestRT cause iTest to publish the test report to the Quality Center server, domain, and project that you specify at the command line
New VMware vSphere Integration — Significant usability and performance improvements for vSphere sessions: New support for importing an existing VM as part of an automated test, raw devices (SAN arrays, iSCSI, and so on), importing OVF/VSDK datastore files, and vMotion.
NTAF — iTest supports an alpha NTAF integration.
Rational Quality Manager Integration — Use RQM to drive test executions and have the test results automatically reported back into RQM.
Refactoring iTest resources -- renaming, moving, or deleting files — iTest auto-updates dependency relationships when you refactor files
RFT Launcher — Use Rational Functional Tester to build block-level tests and automated scripts to drive Windows applications, then use iTest to incorporate the tests into an end-to-end system test.
Selective step reporting — By default, each step that executes in a test is added to the test report. You have the option to specify that a particular step should not appear in test reports (the step executes normally, it simply is not reported).
SOAP Attachment Support — Attachments are supported for the SOAP Web Services module.
SOAP, WS-Security Features — Use the new WS-Security tab to specify the authentication/authorization values that you typically use to access the server. You can configure default settings in the session profile.
Spirent Avalanche -- Run scripts directly — You can run a test using the Tcl scripts generated by Avalanche
Swing -- Latest feature enhancements — Watch demonstrations of the latest feature enhancements
Test report diff feature -- Comparing two test reports — Quickly compare test results side-by-side to identify key differences in your tests.
Virtual testbeds -- VTB -- Controlling emulation for any device in a topology — You can control how emulation is used for any device in a topology in any test case that uses the device:
VMWare vSphere sessions — Automate virtual machines using iTest: Create, retrieve, update, delete, start, stop  your VMs as part of testing and automating your virtualized environments
VNC sessions — Drive OS-related controls (Windows, Mac, or Linux) as part of your overall system test (for example, triple-play testing, VOIP testing, VPN connection tests, and so on).
Web Services Module — Test and automate your enterprise applications (EMS, OSS/BSS etc.) directly through the programming API using SOAP or RESTful Web Services.
Web sessions -- iTest captures link IDs whenever possible — To ensure that test cases are as robust as possible, iTest captures the ID for a link (rather than
XML-RPC Web Services Support — Try it with Bugzilla – save test case log results directly into your bug tracking system.

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