New features:

• Support was added for testing Eclipse/SWT version 3.6 "Helios".
• SWT Multiple file selection in an SWT FileDialog can now be recorded and replayed.

Bugs fixed:

• Replay performance could suffer severely if the user's home directory was located on a network drive.
• Swing A workaround for an AWT weakness introduced in QF-Test 3.2.1 could impact replay performance for AWT/Swing.
• Swing Yet another performance problem resulting from very large hierarchies of Swing menus has also been fixed.
• Web Several special cases for uploading files with Internet Explorer are now handled correctly.
• Web Downloading files with Internet Explorer now works correctly in case of HTTP redirection.

Bugs fixed:

• With a 1.4 JDK in interactive mode QF-Test would only start if given a file to open.
• Web Web-testing now works again on Windows 2000.
• The QF-Test debugger used to show duplicate entries on the variable stack for 'Procedure call' and 'Test call' nodes.
• There was a memory leak in connection with interactive editing of test-suites with 'Check image' nodes for large images.
• In very special cases an import of components into their own suite could result in incorrectly updated references.
• Saving entries for zipped run-logs could occasionally fail on Windows due to a problem in the underlying library. QF-Test now works around that.
• Two problems were fixed for SUTs with more than one GUI engine, e.g. a WebStart application or combined SWT/Swing. In such a case QF-Test used to log more than one screenshot of the main screen after an error and sometimes connections from the second engine could fail.
• Web The upload dialog for web pages was not handled correctly for all browser versions and the procedure qfs.web.input.fileUpload in the standard library qfs.qft did not handle all cases correctly.
• In recent QF-Test versions there was an inofficial global Jython run-context rc available in addition to the local one. In special cases this could cause subtle namespace problems, so the (still inofficial) global version was renamed to __rc.
• Several minor problems and occasional exceptions in connection with the result list dialogs were fixed.

Following is an overview over the main new features that have been implemented for QF-Test version 3.2. For detailed information about the differences between QF-Test 3.0 and 3.2, please see the following sections with the release notes for versions 3.2.0 and 3.1.x.

New features:

• SWT Support for Eclipse/SWT has been brought up-to-date with the current versions 3.5.2 and 3.6M6.
• Swing Swing components are no longer highlighted by exchanging their foreground and background color but by painting a rectangle, similar to SWT and Web. Target sub-items are now highlighted as well.
• The new 'Boolean check' node with 'Check type identifier' attribute 'visible' is similar to 'Wait for component to appear' node, but in contrast to the latter is is listed in the report as a check and it has different default settings for the result handling.
• The most recently accessed component and possibly item in the SUT can now be retrieved in Jython and Groovy 'SUT script' nodes via rc.getLastComponent() and rc.getLastItem().
• Web Selecting a file for upload in a web form can now be recorded and replayed directly on Windows. For a cross-platform implementation it is still necessary to call the procedure qfs.web.input.fileUpload from the standard library qfs.qft.
• Additional features were added to the result lists for complex operations. For example, you can now perform actual replacements in the result list for the replace dialog or you can update multiple failed checks at once from the error list in a run-log. Besides, the result list for an operation that takes time is now filled continuously and the operation can be aborted if necessary.
• Recent search expressions are now saved in the user configuration.
• 'Dependency' nodes inside 'Packages' are now listed in the pkgdoc documentation unless disabled via the command line argument -pkgdoc.dependencies or the respective interactive option.

Bugs fixed:

• Web Right-clicks for Javascript-based popup menus no longer need to be replayed as hard events in order to trigger the popup reliably.
• Web When recording checks the z-order of DOM nodes is now properly taken into account so that QF-Test no longer records nodes that are actually in the background, covered by other nodes.

New features:

• Swing It is no longer necessary to instrument standard JDKs or JREs, though it doesn't hurt to keep existing instrumentation. Please see the option Connect without JDK instrumentation (Swing) for further information.
• SWT Support was added for the latest Eclipse/SWT version 3.6.
• Web QF-Test now supports Firefox 3.6.
• The new part II 'Best Practices' in the manual describes recommended procedures based on lessons learned from several customer projects and user feedback that will hopefully help you to find the best strategy for using QF-Test in your own projects.
• Reports have been restructured and further extended. 'Check' nodes now have an optional 'Name' attribute for their representation in the report. Besides, the performance of report creation has been drastically improved and its memory impact reduced.
• The tree display in run-logs now shows expanded values instead of variables. This can be toggled via the »View« menu.
• Compactification for run-logs is now more efficient and special placeholder log entries show where nodes were removed during compactification.
• SWT Support for the Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) is now included by default and works correctly with multiple concurrent GEF editors. See section 38.4 for further information.
• Web The new procedure qfs.web.input.fileUpload in the standard library qfs.qft handles <INPUT:FILE> nodes for the various browser variants.
• TestLink integration has been simplified (section 18.4).
• For Swing and SWT tables and multi-column trees it is now possible to check a whole row at once.
• ExtraFeatureResolvers can now also be used for SWT and Swing. These are described in subsection 38.1.6.
• The standard library qfs.qft now includes wrapper procedures for the autowin module in the package qfs.autowin. These can be used to check for the existence of a window and to close it on Windows systems.
• The runid of the current test-run now is now available via ${qftest:runid}.
• Special variables or properties of type group:name can now be used for 'Characteristic variables'.
• For nodes like 'Test-step' or 'Test-set' with several tabs for variable bindings the number of bound variables is now displayed in the tab which makes it much easier to locate those bindings.

Bugs fixed:

• Web Several causes for IE crashes were fixed.
• Web Wait for absence now works correctly for invisible nodes.
• QF-Test doesn't get blocked as easily when the SUT generates a lot of output and the JTextArea for the shared terminal cannot keep up.
• The internal variable stack of QF-Test could get messed up in some special cases.
• The procedure builder now correctly handles '_' characters in package or class names.

New features:

• The new 'Test-step' node can be used to provide further structure and document tests below 'Test-cases'. 'Test-steps' are listed individually in the report unless deactivated with -report.teststeps. Similar effects can be achieved by marking arbitrary nodes with the doctag @teststep, optionally followed by a name for the step.
• The report now also can list checks (off by default) and warnings (excluding component recognition warnings, on by default) integrated into the test-step listing and also shows icons for nodes. The respective settings can be changed via -report.checks, -report.warnings and -report.nodeicons in batch mode or the respective options in the dialog for interactive report creation.
• In the workbench view there is now a context menu for the test-suite tabs.
• All 'Comment' attributes can now be edited in an external editor similar to scripts.
• There are new toolbar buttons in the run-log window for navigating to the next/previous error or warning.
• The incremental search feature now has more intelligent scrolling for hits and also allows scrolling the component being searched via the [Up], [Down], [Page up] and [Page down] keys.
• 'Dependencies' can now optionally be resolved in a namespace which allows having different sets of dependencies for different parts of a test so that the dependencies don't interfere with each other. See the 'Dependency namespace' attribute for details.

Bugs fixed:

• Due to the JIDE libraries used, the new workbench view does not work with JDK 1.4. It now gets deactivated automatically when starting QF-Test with a 1.4 JDK.
• Several exceptions caused by the new workbench view and the multi result dialogs were fixed.
• In the new workbench view QF-Test could lose track about which suites are currently loaded, causing a suite to get loaded more than once, leading to confusing behavior and sometimes an exception.
• The new mechanism for on-the-fly SWT instrumentation only handled one SWT plugin, so that in case of a multi-platform Eclipse based application with several SWT plugins the correct plugin for the current platform could remain uninstrumented.
• Calling stopRun could cause the shared run-context in the QF-Test daemon to become unusable.
• SWT Text checks for SWT Group widgets were missing.
• Web Fixed automatic scrolling of web pages for image checks and replay of hard events.
• The popup sub-menu for setting and removing marks was sometimes empty.

New features:

• SWT Support was added for the latest Eclipse/SWT version 3.5.1.
• Web We have started work on special support for several AJAX web toolkits, including Ext GWT, Ext JS, GWT, qooxdoo and RAP. Instead of deeply nested hierarchies of <DIV> nodes QF-Test now operates in terms of the actual rich interface of buttons, labels, trees etc. For information on how to activate this feature in its current state, please get in touch with QFS.
• QF-Test now comes with support for interacting with the open source test management tool TestLink. Please see section 18.4 for details.
• By default QF-Test now starts with a "Workbench View" where all open test-suites are arranged as tabs in a single window. This feature is work in progress. In case it causes problems or if you prefer the old style, you can switch back to multiple windows via the »View« menu.
• The new function »Analyze references« in the context menu of a node can be used to statically validate the correctness of a test-suite by verifying the existence of the target nodes of 'Procedure calls', 'Test calls', 'Dependency references' and references to 'Components'.
• Operations that search for or result in changes to multiple nodes now bring up a mass result dialog listing the affected nodes. You can either navigate to specific nodes directly from that dialog or use it to set marks on some or all of the resulting nodes.
• Nodes in a test-suite can now be marked with markers in four different colors for easier reference and quick navigation. Marks can be set either individually via the menu »Edit«-»Marks« or the context menu, or from a mass result dialog.
• All text fields, terminals etc. in QF-Test's user interface can now be searched locally by pressing [Ctrl-F] when the field owns the keyboard focus. Details are described in subsection 2.3.1.2.
• The new Component Method Spy retrieves and displays fields and methods of Swing or SWT components as well as the Javascript properties of a DOM node in the web client (see section 6.5).
• After recording a new sequence and transforming it into a 'Procedure' you can select »Parameterize node« from its context menu to tell QF-Test to automatically extract parameters for it from the contained nodes.
• SWT The Eclipse/SWT instrumentation performed by the 'Procedure' qfs.qft#qfs.swt.instrument.setup now operates on-the-fly, building a new plugin from an existing plugin and the QF-Test specific add-ons. Thus it is now possible to instrument custom SWT plugins or plugins for unofficial Eclipse versions for which QF-Test doesn't provide an exactly matching instrumented plugin.
• Event nodes can now be transformed into a 'Wait for component to appear' node.
• The keyboard shortcut for the 'Redo' operation was changed from [Ctrl-R] to [Ctrl-Y]. Over the last years the latter has become a de facto standard.
• The warning about nested 'Test-case' execution can now be suppressed via the option Log warning for nested test-cases.
• Web Where scrolling a web page is required to perform a hard event or an image check, QF-Test now tries to scroll a web page itself via Javascript calls instead of relying on the browser's internal mechanism which often completely messes up the display.
• Component recognition based on geometry can now be suppressed by setting the coordinate and size attributes of a 'Component' to '-'.
• It is now possible to specify just the 'Class count' or 'Class index' of a 'Component' node and ignore the other.

Bugs fixed:

• Using the replace dialog to replace a regular expression with an empty string caused an exception.
• The function to make 'Procedure calls' or 'Dependency references' relative did not work reliably.
• When moving several 'Procedures', the automatic correction of 'Procedure calls' could fail in some special cases.
• Procedure recording now works correctly for custom classes with a special ClassLoader.
• When creating reports, warnings can be suppressed entirely by specifying -report.warnings=false for batch mode or deactivating the respective option in the dialog for interactive report generation.
• SWT Recording a click on an editable table cell could cause the cell editor to get activated in the wrong table row.
• SWT 'Fetch index' nodes were not implemented for SWT.
• Removing or marking unused components, importing and other complex component operations could fail if the test-suite contained a 'Data table' node with no columns or empty table cells.

Incompatible changes:

• The changes to the check system described below are fully backwards compatible. However, once a test-suite has been saved with QF-Test version 3.1.1 it cannot be run correctly with an older QF-Test version except for QF-Test version 3.0.3 which has explicit bidirectional compatibility support for this feature. Once you introduce QF-Test version 3.1.1 you can safely continue to work with QF-Test 3.0.3, but you should not use older versions like 3.1.0 or 3.0.2.

New features:

• The transition to the new check mechanism is now complete. Custom Checkers are now fully documented (section 38.3) and can be created for all check data types. All 'Check' nodes now have a 'Check type identifier' attribute and the old 'Check editable', 'Check enabled' and 'Check selected' nodes were replaced with 'Boolean check' nodes with a matching 'Check type identifier'.
• It is now possible to bookmark test-suites, run-logs and individual nodes in a test-suite so they are directly accessible via the new sub-menu »File«-»Bookmarks«. Please see subsection 27.1.2 about how to create and manage bookmarks.
• Web The new ClassNameResolver (see subsection 38.1.2) - though also useful for SWT and Swing applications - is an important milestone for AJAX web testing. With its help and the new pseudo class hierarchy for DOM nodes (see section 6.4) a deeply nested hierarchy of <DIV> nodes can be turned into a concise component hierarchy with expressive class names that vastly improve component recognition.
• 'Procedures' can now automatically be parameterized via the sub-menu »Parameterize node« in the popup menu for the 'Procedure' node. This feature is work in progress and will need more fine-tuning so we hope for your feedback.
• When creating testdoc documentation it is now possible to follow 'Test call' nodes and include the target 'Test-case', 'Test-set' or test-suite into the generated documentation by activating the respective option in the dialog for interactive use or via the command line argument -testdoc.followcalls in batch mode.
• Several more variants for converting and (un)packing nodes were added.

Bugs fixed:

• Several problems with split run-logs were fixed. Log entries could get lost in compact logs, when the split run-log was not saved as a zip file or when split run-logs were disabled but the attribute 'Name for separate run-log' was defined.
• DaemonTestRunListeners did not work correctly in asynchronous mode.
• When creating a report, screenshots for failed 'Check image' nodes were always saved regardless of whether the failed check actually represented an error or was just a part of a conditional construct.
• Use of the new Java regular expressions in QF-Test's replace dialog was not correct so that some replacements based on regexps were not possible.
• Web When determining uniqueness of "id" attributes for use as names, QF-Test was too strict so that in some cases potential names were not assigned.
• Instrumenting an OpenJDK directory now works.
• Web Waiting for a new document did not handle the window name attribute correctly.
• Web Waiting for a download to finish always waited for the full timeout.
• SWT In very rare cases replaying text input could crash an SWT application on Linux.
• Option settings from rc.setOption() in the SUT were reset whenever options were changed in the option dialog.
• SWT Event replay for SWT MenuItems with Gtk 2.4 on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 was not reliable.
• SWT The ktable and gef Jython modules for the respective SWT components were not correctly updated for the new ItemResolver and Checker mechanisms.
• SWT QF-Test now properly discerns the most modal SWT Shell in case multiple modal Shells are opened simultaneously.

Incompatible changes:

• QF-Test now uses standard Java regular expressions by default which are much more powerful than the old GNU regexp package. One major difference is that '{' and '}' are special characters for Java regexps and may need to be escaped with a '\'. If necessary, you can switch back to the old GNU regexps via the option Use old-style GNU regexps (from before QF-Test version 3.1). See also section 35.4.
• Web In contrast to Mozilla, Internet Explorer reports a local navigation to an anchor on the current page as a normal navigation event, so up to now a 'Wait for document to load' node was recorded which failed when replaying the same test on Mozilla. QF-Test now treats this situation uniformly by ignoring the extra navigation from IE so no 'Wait for document to load' node is recorded with either browser. Consequently, old 'Wait for document to load' nodes for local navigation will now fail and need to be removed from your tests.

New features:

• Web QF-Test's embedded browser for web testing now supports Java applets with JDK 1.6.0_10 and up, so QF-Test can now test the interaction of a web application with its embedded Java applet.
• Many of QF-Test's options, specifically those with an impact on test execution, can now be changed at run-time via the new run-context method rc.setOption described in subsection 12.3.9 and section 36.6.
• When moving 'Procedure', 'Dependency' or 'Test-case' nodes, all references to these nodes can now be updated automatically. Similar updates are now performed when changing the name of such nodes or 'Component' IDs via the replace dialog. As an additional feature the new special Variable group ${id:...} (see section 8.4) and the run-context method rc.id (see section 36.6) can be used to mark arbitrary text as the definition of a component id that will be updated whenever the referenced component changes.
• 'Procedure calls' from one 'Procedure' to another 'Procedure' in the same 'Package' hierarchy can now use a relative procedure name. Also, 'Procedures' and 'Packages' can now be made local to their test-suite by prefixing the name with an '_'. See subsection 10.3.2 and subsection 10.3.1 for details.
• The selection dialog for a 'Procedure', 'Dependency' or 'Test-case' node now also shows the comment of the selected node. Also, it is now possible to select multiple nodes in order to insert multiple calls at once.
• A 'Procedure call' to a specific 'Procedure' can now be created by copying the 'Procedure' node and pasting it to a place where insertion of the 'Procedure' is not allowed, which is basically everywhere a 'Procedure call' is allowed except for the 'Extras' node. Dragging and dropping a 'Procedure' with the same effect is also supported.
• Web It is now possible to interact directly with the Javascript engine of the browser and execute arbitrary scripts via the methods DomNode.toJs, DomNode.evalJs and DocumentNode.evalJs, described in chapter 37.
• When an error or exception occurs, the run-log now contains a stacktrace node, showing all nodes on the execution stack including their variable bindings, similar to the variables view in the debugger window.
• There is a new API for various kinds of resolvers and checkers, including an ItemResolver interface for implementing your own sub-items of custom components and a Checker interface for custom checks that can be captured and replayed just like QF-Test's standard checks. See section 38.2 and section 38.3 for further information.
• The new TestRunListener API, described in section 38.5, can be used to monitor a test-run from a script. Its variant DaemonTestRunListener supports the same remotely via QF-Test's daemon API. It is documented in section 39.5.
• SWT Support for Eclipse/SWT now includes the latest Eclipse milestone 3.5M7.
• Web The run-context method rc.callProcedure now also works from an 'SUT script' in a web application.
• Execution of a 'Test-case' or 'Test-set' can now be aborted or skipped via the run-context methods rc.skipTestCase, rc.skipTestSet, rc.stopTestCase and rc.stopTestSet, e.g. to prevent wasted time and irrelevant error messages in case a dependency cannot be resolved. See section 36.6 for details.
• The name of the currently executing 'Test-case' is now available via the special variables ${qftest:testcase.name}, ${qftest:testcase.qname} and ${qftest:testcase.reportname} (see section 8.4).
• Web Via the new methods setProperty and getProperty in the class Node from QF-Test's pseudo DOM API for web applications, arbitrary data can be associated with DOM nodes without affecting the web application.
• The new command line argument -ping for qftest -batch -calldaemon can be used to check whether a QF-Test daemon is up and running.

Bugs fixed:

• In QF-Test version 3.0.2 hard TAB characters in Jython or Groovy scripts were replaced with blanks when showing the script, immediately causing the respective node to become modified. This change has been taken back.
• Mac For SUTs running on Mac OS X QF-Test disables use of the screen menu bar to allow proper capture/replay of menu actions.
• With JDK 1.6 some of QF-Test's dialogs were not displayed with the correct size.
• Activating an engine license in the option dialog now works as expected.
• When recording procedures, a new root 'Package' is always created instead of merging the procedures into a possibly existing 'Package' named "procbuilder".

New features:

• SWT Support was added for Eclipse/SWT versions 3.5M6 and 3.4.2.
• The method callProcedure was added to the class DaemonRunContext of QF-Test's daemon API. This method and the existing method runTest now also support direct passing of parameters to this call. See chapter 39 for details.

Bugs fixed:

• Web 'Wait for document to load' nodes for web clients did not work reliably in case of multiple browser windows.
• Web Checking the enabled/disabled state of components is now also implemented for web clients.
• Web Capture and replay of MOVED and SIZED events is now also supported for browser windows of web clients.
• QF-Test now performs regular explicit garbage collections to prevent running out of memory in the PermGen Space, a special Java memory region that causes trouble for a lot of Java applications. For the SUT these extra garbage collections can be turned off via the option Automatically perform garbage collection in the SUT.
• SWT Disposal and recreation of an SWT Display is now handled correctly.
• SWT Custom SWT Widgets implemented as an anonymous local class were not treated correctly, possibly leading to a ComponentNotFoundException.
• For checks with a very long timeout deadlock detection is now adjusted accordingly.
• The demonstration test-suite for integration with the Imbus TestBench was updated to the latest TestBench version and now handles split run-logs correctly.

New features:

• The Jython and Groovy run context rc now provides the convenience methods getBool, getInt, getNum and getString for simplifying lookup of typed variable values in scripts.
• It is now possible to specify proxy settings for a web SUT directly in the quickstart wizard or via the procedure qfs.web.browser.settings.setProxy in the standard library test-suite qfs.qft.
• An entry for Swing JInternalFrame components has been added to the template file for automatic procedure creation.

Bugs fixed:

• Web-testing with Mozilla on Linux no longer requires using a 1.4 JDK.
• Using the "Update component" feature for web pages with deeply nested tables could lead to duplicate component IDs.
• Left-to-right binding in 'Data table' and other data nodes has been fixed.
• SQL statements in 'Database' nodes did not work with Oracle databases, due to an automatically appended ';' character. This has been fixed. If your database engine requires that SQL statements are terminated with a ';' you have to specify it yourself.
• The procedure qfs.swt.instrument.setup now always picks the SWT plugin with an exact version match for instrumentation, if available. This is important for SWT 3.4, where versions 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 are mutually incompatible.
• When recording procedures, a '$' character displayed in one of the fields of the SUT could lead to an exception.
• Groovy class loading and script parsing in the SUT should now be faster, in some cases - specifically applets - drastically.
• A caught exception in the 'Finally' node of a 'Try' node could mess up the state of an exception caught earlier in a 'Catch' node.
• The demo test-suite swt_addressbook.qft was still based on SWT 3.1, support for which is no longer distributed with QF-Test. The suite is now based on SWT 3.4.

The following new features have been implemented for QF-Test version 3:

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