After some time of silence, XBench development has become visibly active. On October 14, 2009 they released new version 2.8, and it took ApSIC less than a month to release its new build with hot fixes.
The tool, which was powerful enough for a tool available for free, is now even more helpful and useful. The most important things, to my mind, are regular expressions support and faster search engine, but this is not the whole list. XBench has always been the tool that supported the widest variety of file formats, but it expanded here as well having added a few more formats with the new release. Additionally, its checklists were enhanced and allow for better organization.
Last but not least, as of October 7, 2009, XBench allows you to develop plug-ins to it. Now you can implement your own types of checks as a DLL and make XBench run those checks together with ones that are built into it. All you need to do that, is to be familiar with software development and read this document carefully.
Well done, I believe. The market of QA tools has been quite live recently, and the fact that we have a powerful and evolving free tool is really pleasing.
And if ApSIC takes the next step and provide support for a community of plug-in developers, I really believe we may expect XBench to be the most comprehensive QA tool on the market in a very short time.
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