This page documents the changes in STRIDE version 4.2.01x (code name Hole In The Fence).

Please review this information before upgrading from an earlier version.

Note that if you are upgrading from a previous installation you must uninstall your existing STRIDE before installing version 4.2.01x.

What's New

Based on customer feedback, in this release we have many key usability improvements and bug fixes.

Usability Improvements

The STRIDE scripting solution has been optimized and ported to Linux.

Expectation Testing in Script and C/C++ has been enhanced to support non-strict validation.

This section describes defects which have been corrected in STRIDE and the customer tracking number associated with them, if any, in brackets [].

Waiting with timeout on unordered Test Point expectation always results in a failure.
STRIDE Runtime source may fail to compile in environment where "long long" and "long" are the same type
Linux SDK may fail to compile in environment that has no support for SYS V semaphores.
STRIDE Build Tools may fail to compile a test class in a namespace.
STRIDE Runner on Linux fails to trace with timeout.
Running a STRIDE::Test module may result in resource leaks on the target.
Running test units in STRIDE Studio via ascript may not behave as expected.

STRIDE::Test module TestPointSetup method has been updated to support non-strict processing and to handle startup scenarious.

Expectation Tests setup API, srTestPointSetup, API has been updated to support non-strict processing and to handle startup scenarious.

STRIDE Host Release 4.2.01x is compatible with the Runtime Version 4.2.01
Most of the Runtime files have been modified. It is recomended that you update them all.
The names of the PAL OS Timer services has been renamed (from palTimerXX to palXXTimer). The signature of the timer creation API has been changed.
All Linux SDK files have been modified.
All Windows SDK files have been modified.