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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [QF-Test] QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.3 released
Dear QF-Test users,
QF-Test version 5.3.0 is now available for download from
https://www.qfs.de/en/qf-test/download.html
The full newsletter - including information about an upcoming free web
seminars, new videos and blogs and upcoming QF-Test training dates -
is also available online at
https://www.qfs.de/en/company/news/newsletters/newsletter-2021-05-20-qf-test-53-released.html
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send an informal email with subject "Subscribe Newsletter" to
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1. QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.3 Released
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With the newly added browser connection mode CDP-Driver (Chrome
DevTools Protocol) this medium upgrade is a real game-changer for web
test automation with QF-Test.
By talking directly to the browser it supports Google Chrome,
Microsoft Edge and Opera on Windows, Linux and macOS with a
performance, stability and feature set formerly only available with
QF-Driver for Chrome on Windows. And that's on top of a massive
performance boost of QF-Driver for Chrome with observed speed-up
ranging from 10% to over 500%.
The user interface of QF-Test has been cleaned up and streamlined,
using a uniform flat look with fewer lines and beautiful new icons
that still maintain the existing image language and are immediately
recognizable. The HTML manual and tutorial as well as report and test
documentation have also received a face-lift.
The update of the Jython integration to fully support international
characters is complemented by several more new features and a handful
of bug fixes.
A video highlighting the main new features is available at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlCGPaDN1is&list=PLsQ3ggMe67qgEd4HTruyIgzvdq0RYOzBX
For detailed release notes please see section 5 below.
2. Free Special Webinar about QF-Test and Continuous Integration
================================================================
We continue our popular special webinars. The webinar is free of
charge but seats are limited. You will have the possibility to ask
questions.
Monday, September 27, 2021; 14.30 - approx. 15.30 CEST:
(German version in the morning)
Everything in flux - Using QF Test with Continuous Integration
Tools on the Example of Jenkins
Reserve your seat via service@?.de or +49 8171 38648-10.
If you missed one of our special webinars or want
to "catch up", you can find here the recordings of
former special webinars.
3. New Blog Articles and Videos
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Since the last newsletter we have published further blog posts and
videos:
Blog:
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* Test automation of KeePass with QF-Test - Seminar paper
https://www.qfs.de/en/blog/article/2021/04/29/test-automation-of-keepass-with-qf-test-seminar-paper.html
* First QF-Test Meetup Switzerland
https://www.qfs.de/en/blog/article/2021/04/23/first-qf-test-meetup-switzerland.html
Videos:
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* QF-Test Version 5.3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlCGPaDN1is&list=PLsQ3ggMe67qgEd4HTruyIgzvdq0RYOzBX
* Recording of Special webinar on "Image Testing with QF-Test"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXuIKpKe5wQ&list=PLsQ3ggMe67qgEd4HTruyIgzvdq0RYOzBX
* Quick run through QF-Test | Test automation features
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwBy-NNS9k&list=PLsQ3ggMe67qgEd4HTruyIgzvdq0RYOzBX
4. New Terms and Conditions
===========================
We would like to inform you about the update of our General Terms and
Conditions for QF-Test and the related services. As a common process
of maintenance, the agreements have been updated to the current state
of the law. You can find the documents on the Terms and Conditions
page
https://www.qfs.de/en/company/terms-conditions.html
5. Release Notes for QF-Test 5.3
================================
New features:
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* The newly added browser connection mode CDP-Driver supplements
QF-Driver and WebDriver for controlling Chromium based browsers via
the Chrome DevTools Protocol. By talking directly to the browser
without the intervening WebDriver protocol, speed, stability and
feature set of CDP-Driver are on par with QF-Driver (and that's
after the QF-Driver performance boost, see below). In addition,
while QF-Driver is limited to Chrome on Windows, CDP-Driver now
supports Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Opera on Windows, Linux
and macOS, so this is a real game-changer for web test automation
with QF-Test.
* The performance of web tests with QF-Driver for Chrome has been
significantly improved. Observed speed-up ranges from 10% to over
500%.
* The user interface of QF-Test has been cleaned up and streamlined,
using a uniform flat look with fewer lines and beautiful new icons
that still maintain the existing image language and are immediately
recognizable. The HTML manual and tutorial as well as report and
test documentation have also received a face-lift.
* Use of international character sets in Jython scripts is now
straightforward. If the new option "Literal Jython strings are
unicode (16-bit as in Java)" is turned on, literal strings
(explicitly specified string constants like "abc") in Jython scripts
are treated as 16-bit unicode and are thus equivalent to strings in
Java and the other QF-Test scripting languages. Please see
subsection 12.3.4 for detailed information.
* Detection of errors in the browser console has been improved and,
depending on the option "How to handle errors in a web application",
they are logged in the QF-Test run-log. Besides, the new procedure
qfs.web.browser.settings.setTerminalLogs in the standard library
qfs.qft can be used to define if and how messages from the browser
console are to be shown in the QF-Test terminal.
* The embedded Chrome browser used for QF-Driver mode has been updated
to CEF version 89.
* The bundled GeckoDriver was updated to version 0.29.1.
* Support for JxBrowser 7.14 and 7.15 was added.
* QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 76.
* The JRE ditributed with QF-Test has been updated to Zulu OpenJDK
version 8_292.
* The quickstart wizard now has its own toolbar button. This - or any
other unwanted toolbar button - can now be removed from the toolbar
via a right-click popup menu.
* The 'Wait for absence' node now has a dedicated entry in the
»Insert« menu and its logic when applied to sub-items has been
simplified: Execution of the node is successful if either the parent
component of the sub-item is absent or the sub-item itself.
* When running a test with the command line argument -verbose
[<level>], QF-Test now expands variables in node names for console
output also.
* The default setting for the available Java memory for QF-Test has
been increased to 1024 MB. The configuration of existing QF-Test
installations is not affected.
* Sub-items of Swing JComboBox components can now be addressed
relative to the JComboBox without requiring identification of the
popup list.
* Linux The ability to bring windows of the SUT to the foreground when
needed and set the input focus is crucial for automated testing. On
Linux QF-Test now uses an updated, more reliable method to bring a
window on top regardless of desktop settings if the option "Force
window to the top when raising" is not deactivated.
* Exception messages in the run-log or an error dialog are now
displayed using word-wrap to break long lines. This can be turned
off via the option "Wrap lines in exception messages".
Bugs fixed:
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* Installing a resolver via the generic method resolvers.addResolver()
did not work in SUT scripts with the JavaScript language.
* The browser zoom level is now reset to 100% when clearing the
browser cache.
* The procedure qfs.swing.startup.startWebstartSUT now ensures proper
quoting of the jnlp argument for use on the command line of Linux
systems in order to avoid side-effects from special characters it
might contain.
* The qfs:label extra feature for elements within a TabPanel of a
native WPF application was not determined correctly.
* Since QF-Test version 5.2.2 in very special cases elements in a web
page were mistakenly considered to be invisible.
* QF-Test now runs again on macOS versions older than 10.14.
* Resolution of the qfs:label extra feature for a label located above
the target component is now slightly more tolerant about horizontal
alignment.
* Fast replay of several mouse clicks onto the same location of a
Webswing application could accidentally create double clicks when
redirecting events through the browser.
Changes that can affect test execution:
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* Jython issues with character encoding have been reduced and it is
now possible to treat Jython literals as 16-bit unicode string which
is the natural representation for Java and thus QF-Test. For
compatibility reasons the new option "Literal Jython strings are
unicode (16-bit as in Java)" is turned off by default if QF-Test
encounters an existing system configuration.
Please see subsection 12.3.4 for detailed information about why the
option should be turned on and how to trouble-shoot possible issues.
Chances are high that your Jython scripts will simply work and
string handling will become much cleaner. If not, either undo the
option change or fix the resulting incompatibilities. We had to do
the latter in only a handful of places in our over 1600 test-suites,
some of which date back over 20 years. The section Trouble shooting
Jython encoding issues explains the most common pitfalls and of
course our support is always there to help.
* The default folder name of the Firefox profile when executed in
WebDriver connection-mode has been renamed from mozProfile to
firefoxProfile and it is now used in place instead of copying it to
a temporary directory. This behaviour is now consistent with using
QF-Driver but has the side-effect that preferences from one test
execution are preserved for the next execution and might have to be
overwritten during the next browser start. To restore the previous
behavior, set the OPT_WEBDRIVER_COPY_MOZPROFILE option to true
before starting the browser.
* The procedures in the package qfs.utils.ssh of the standard library
qfs.qft and the underlying Jython module ssh have been updated to
default to RSA public key authentication with the default private
key file /.ssh/id_rsa instead of DSA which is no longer supported by
most current ssh servers.
* The option "Create compact run-log" is now deactivated by default in
interactive mode. Existing system configurations are not affected
and the option has no effect in batch mode where compactification is
controlled via the command line attribute -compact.
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