New features:
-
The JRE distributed with QF-Test has been updated to Zulu OpenJDK version 8_345.
- SWT
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.25 alias "2022-09".
- Web
Support for JxBrowser version 7.27 was added.
-
The methods
getFirstChild, getNextSibling, getPreviousSibling,
getFirstElementChild,getNextElementSibling and getPreviousElementSibling were added to the QF-Test
pseudo DOM API. See subsection 50.11.1 for details.
Bugs fixed:
- Web
When performing an upload with CDP-Driver connection mode, a TestException is now thrown in case the
specified file does not exist.
- Web
In rare cases the information about sub-items was lost when recording a mouse click in a web application.
- Web
In some cases a browser window was mistakenly closed in case of a WebDriver timeout triggered for a
different frame.
- Web
Overlays in web applications driven by the Angular framework might not have been recognized correctly.
- SWT
For SWT applications on Linux, replaying a selection on a ToolItem in a vertical ToolBar could trigger the
wrong item.
New features:
-
Clean shutdown of running QF-Test instances - especially in batch mode - has been greatly improved. With the
new command line arguments
-allow-shutdown [<shutdown ID>] and -shutdown <ID> it is now possible to target
individual QF-Test processes based on their process ID or a previously specified shutdown ID. The former
command line arguments -allowkilling and -kill-kunning-instances still work but
are now deprecated.
-
The command line argument
-clearglobals now also works for calldaemon mode (see subsection 22.2.2). To that end the DaemonRunContext API has two new methods,
setGlobals and clearGlobals (see section 51.2).
- Web
Support for JxBrowser version 7.26 was added.
-
The faster variant of the procedure
qfs.utils.xml.compareXMLFiles in the standard
library qfs.qft now also supports sorting.
-
For SmartIDs the prefix of special features like "Tab: some tab" or "Label: some label" is now optional.
See section 5.6 for details about SmartID syntax.
Bugs fixed:
-
When logging screenshots of individual windows, QF-Test mistakenly also used to create images for embedded
windows from different GUI engines.
-
When editing options, assigning duplicate hot keys is no longer allowed.
- Web
The pseudo DOM method
DomNode.getElementsByTagName now also returns slotted elements.
- Web
Text from slotted elements was not taken into account when determining the feature of web components.
- Web
In direct download mode existing files are no longer overwritten by default but saved with a unique
name.
- SWT
Replay of TAB keystrokes is now significantly faster for SWT on Windows.
New features:
- SWT
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.24 alias "2022-06".
-
There is a new variable group to conveniently escape special characters in SmartIDs.
${quotesmartid:...} deals with the item syntax characters '@', '&' and '%' as well as the
SmartID special characters ':', '=', '<' and '>'.
Bugs fixed:
- Android
Replay of text input for android applications has been improved.
- Web
In web applications a GenericClassNameResolver registered on "DOM_NODE" was not called correctly.
- SWT
Replaying text input as single events for SWT applications running on Ubuntu 22 could lead to garbled text
with the order of some characters changed. QF-Test now replays these events with improved synchronisation.
- Web
Support for testing Firefox using QF-Driver connection mode, which is limited to Firefox versions 43 and
lower, has been deprecated for removal in a future QF-Test version. Please consider using current Firefox
versions with WebDriver connection mode instead.
- Web
Support for testing Internet Explorer, which has officially reached end-of-life, has been deprecated
for removal in a future QF-Test version.
- Web
Support for testing Opera using WebDriver connection mode has been deprecated for removal in a future QF-Test
version. Please use CDP-Driver connection mode instead.
- Web
When testing web applications in CDP-Driver or WebDriver connection mode, slottable nodes are no longer
referenced as direct children of the WebComponent node, but as children of their assigned slot node. This
is unlikely to break existing tests, but if it does, please contact QFS support.
- Swing
The way QF-Test internally addresses table columns in a Swing JTable was changed from model-based to
view-based. This has no effect if table columns or cells are addressed with a textual index @... or %...
or if the order of the columns in the table view and model is identical. In case a test based on numeric
column indexes &... fails you can either update the column index or restore the previous functionality
with an SUT script of the form
rc.setOption(Options.OPT_SWING_TABLE_USE_VIEW_COLUMN, false).
- Windows-Tests
The internal API of the UI automation library has been reworked to simplify class names
(e.g. "AutomationWindow" became "Window"). If you use the
uiauto module directly in your
scripts and reference class names directly, you may need to adapt the class names according to the
supplied JavaDoc.
New features:
-
The new Android engine adds support for testing Android applications in an emulator or a real device.
See chapter 15 for further information.
-
Though the embedded JRE of QF-Test is still version 8 - currently at relase 8_332 - QF-Test can now also be
started with Java 17 (see command line argument
-java <executable>). This provides crisp display on scaled
monitors and enables support for plugins that require newer Java versions.
-
Support was added for testing applications based on Java 19.
-
In order to reduce the chances of creating screenshots showing sensitive data during a test-run QF-Test now
takes screenshots only from relevant monitors that show a window that belongs to QF-Test or a connected SUT.
While this default setting is useful for personal workstations it may be preferable to turn it off for
dedicated test systems via the new option Limit screenshots to relevant screens.
-
The HTML report has undergone a major overhaul. Readability is improved thanks to many subtle details with
a more pleasant design and screenshots and error messages are shown as an overlay when clicked, including
navigation between screenshots.
-
Report creation can now also be triggered via a new toolbar button in the run-log window.
-
In reports, the name of a test suite, which can be specified in the 'Name' attribute of the root node,
is now used in place of the file name of the test-suite. This can be configured in the report creation
dialog or in batch mode via the new command line argument
-report-include-suitename.
-
Display of duration indicators for a better understanding of the run-time behaviour of a test-run can be
turned on for run-logs via a new toolbar button and the »View« menu. See subsection 7.1.3 and the options Show relative duration indicators and
Duration indicator kind for further information.
-
Activating the new option Create screenshots for warnings causes screenshot creation
for warnings in the run-log in addition to those for errors and exceptions.
-
It is now possible to link nodes in a test-suite to external resources or documents via the @link doctag.
Via a right-click the target can then be opened in a browser or the application associate with the file
type. See Doctags for reporting and documentation for further information.
-
Groovy was updated to version 4.
-
The new parameters
warningDelay and errorDelay in the procedure qfs.utils.logMemory in the standard library qfs.qft are used to introduce a short
delay in case the warningLimit or errorLimit are exceeded, followed by an
additional garbage collection and another check.
-
The performance and memory consumption of the qfs.qft procedure
qfs.utils.xml.compareXMLFiles have been improved.
- Web
Display and responsiveness of the highlights in check mode were significantly improved for CDP-Driver and
WebDriver connection mode.
- Web
The handling of WebComponents using ShadowDOMs and slots has been improved for testing web application in
CDP-Driver or WebDriver connection mode (QF-Driver support is still pending): The shadow root node is now
accessible as the only child of its host node and slotted nodes are referenced as children of their
assigned slot node.
- Web
Text retrieval with CDP-Driver connection mode has been greatly improved and the DOM hierarchy is
now consistent with other connection modes.
- Web
Performance of image checks in headless browsers has been improved.
- Web
QF-Test now supports multiple parallel downloads in web-tests with CDP-Driver connection mode.
- Web
The new procedure
qfs.web.browser.settings.setDirectDownload in the
standard library qfs.qft allows to download files directly into the directory provided,
suppressing the download dialog. Currently for CDP-Driver connection mode only.
- Web
The embedded Chrome browser used for QF-Driver mode has been updated to CEF version 100.
- Web
Support for JxBrowser versions 7.23 and 7.24 was added.
- Web
The bundled cdp4j library has been updated to version 5.5.0.
- Web
The bundled GeckoDriver was updated to version 0.31.0.
- Web
The method
FrameNode.getFrameElement() was added to the pseudo-DOM API of QF-Test.
- Web
Via the parameter
consoleOutputValue in the procedures qfs.web.browser.settings.doStartupSettings and qfs.web.browser.settings.setTerminalLogs in the standard library qfs.qft it is now
possible to also set the type of the terminal logs.
- Windows-Tests
The embedded UI automation library has been updated to version 0.7.0.
- Mac
On macOS the occasionally showing message dialogs about Safari browser automation are now handled
automatically by QF-Test and no longer block test execution.
Preview features:
The following features are not yet complete, but development has reached a point where they are already of
great use and the released functionality can be relied upon without concerns about backwards compatibility.
-
SmartIDs enable a flexible, easy recognition of components directly from the 'QF-Test component ID' without
recording component information first. Please see section 5.6 and 'Component' nodes versus SmartID for detailed information.
-
Thanks to the new integration with Robot Framework, QF-Test procedures can be
used as Robot Framework keywords.
Bugs fixed:
- Windows-Tests
The mini-installer files for Windows -
minisetup.exe and minisetup_admin.exe -
can now be run in silent and very-silent mode, similar to the full installation.
- Mac
QF-Test might crash when replaying hard key events on macOS.
-
When using split run-logs, the maximum number of screenshots for a run-log was not always respected, if
the option Count screenshots individually for each split log was turned off.
-
The procedure
qfs.autowin.acrobat.saveAsText in the standard library
qfs.qft now also works for Acrobat Reader version 22.1 and up.
-
A call of
rc.clearTestRunListeners() in a server script in batch mode broke the output
resulting from the command line argument -verbose [<level>].
- Web
Detection of the Chrome window for semihard clicks has been improved.
- Web
For current Opera versions in WebDriver connection mode QF-Test now supports automatic download of the
required ChromeDriver version.
- Electron
The window of an electron application was inadvertently resized upon startup when tested with CDP-Driver
connection mode.
- Electron
Popups were not recognized when testing an Electron application in CDP-Driver connection mode.
New features:
-
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.23 alias "2022-03".
-
Support for JxBrowser 7.22 was added.
Bugs fixed:
-
In very special cases instant rerun of a failed node, triggered via the @rerun doctag, could lead to wrong
values on the variable stack.
New features:
- Web
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 84.
- Web
The Kendo UI and Smart GWT Custom Web Resolvers have been updated for the latest release of the respective
framework.
- Web
The bundled cdp4j library has been updated to version 5.5.0.
- Web
The method
FrameNode.getFrameElement() was added to the pseudo-DOM API of QF-Test.
- Web
In the procedure
qfs.web.browser.settings.setTerminalLogs in the standard library
qfs.qft it is now possible to set the type for terminal logs via the
consoleOutputValue.
Bugs fixed:
- Web
Cookies were not properly reset upon browser start for Chrome and Edge version 98 and higher on Windows.
- Web
When elements of a webpage were reordered QF-Test sometimes failed to synchronize them correctly with the new
order.
-
The procedure
qfs.daemon.startRemoteSUT in the standard library qfs.qft
did not work correctly if the QF-Test daemon was started with a keystore for securing the communication via
TLS.
- Swing
Feature resolution for Swing components had a subtle bug in QF-Test versions from 5.3.4 to 5.4.1, resulting
in a tool-tip having higher precedence than an explicitly associated label.
New features:
- Web
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 83.
- Web
The bundled cdp4j library has been updated to version 5.4.1.
Bugs fixed:
- Web
When using CDP-Driver connection mode QF-Test 5.4.0 could sometimes not find elements added after page
load.
- Web
It is now possible to display non-string console log data from a browser started in CDP-Driver connection
mode in the QF-Test terminal.
- Web
The Chrome DevTools can now be detached when developing a web test in CDP-Driver connection mode.
- Electron
In some situations, dialogs in Electron applications were not closed properly when using WebDriver
connection mode.
- Electron
Connection to an electron application on Windows failed in CDP-Driver connection mode in case the
application was starting slowly.
- Mac
The command
automac.sendText made QF-Test crash on newer macOS systems.
- Mac
${qftest:os.version} now returns correct values for Windows 11 as well as macOS 11 and up.
-
An error was fixed in the
qftest launch script on Linux. While processing command line
arguments with an escaped $-expression in the value of a -variable or -option argument, the $-expression
was inadvertently expanded.
- Swing
Components in a Swing
JScrollPane, most notably JTree and JTable,
were assigned inconsistent qfs:label extra features.
- Web
Testing with Microsoft Edge (legacy) is no longer supported because that version of Edge is generally
discontinued. This does not affect support for the current Microsoft Edge browser.
- Web
Execution of the 'Wait for document to load' step has been fixed and the check for document reload
improved. This may lead to errors in places where the testsuite design relied on the malfunction. In such
a case it is advisable to examine the affected 'Wait for document to load' steps and possibly disable or remove
them, or replace them with a 'Wait for component to appear' step. Alternatively it is also possible to reinstate
the broken version via the option Reset web-document load state during rescan (before 5.4).
- Web
For web applications the attributes "aria-checked" and "aria-selected" are now automatically taken into
account for 'Boolean check' nodes with check type selected or checked.
New features:
-
Support was added for testing applications based on Java 18.
- Electron
Electron applications can now be tested using CDP connection mode which is far more effective and works
without requiring inclusion of the problematic module @electron/remote into the electron application.
-
The dialog for the option settings of QF-Test now provides search functionality.
-
It is now possible to copy and paste images from and to QF-Test, most notably for 'Check image' nodes
and screenshots in a run-log.
- 'Mouse event' nodes with a 'Modifiers' attribute of 4, designating a
right-button click, are now shown in the tree as "right-click".
- Web
The embedded Chrome browser used for QF-Driver mode has been updated to CEF version 95.
-
Groovy was updated to version 3.0.9
-
The JUnit library has been updated to version 5.8.1.
- SWT
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.22 alias "2021-12".
- Web
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 80, 81 and 82.
- Web
Support for JxBrowser 7.20 and 7.21 was added.
- Web
For a web application the attribute 'Check type identifier' of a 'Boolean check' node can
now be set to "attribute:<name>" to check for the boolean value of the attribute <name> in the
target node.
-
The new doctag @outputFilter can be used in client starter nodes in order to suppress unwanted messages in
the QF-Test terminal. See section 58.3 for details.
-
If the 'Default value' attribute of a 'Set variable' is a QF-Test component ID in the form
${id:...}, it is now possible to highlight or jump to the target component by right-clicking and selecting
the respective item in the context menu.
Bugs fixed:
-
The search for unused callable nodes sometimes missed certain references and thus could turn up nodes that
were actually still in use.
-
QF-Test now tries to avoid creating non-daemon threads in the SUT, including implicitly created threads from
the RMI sub-system. These threads could prevent a process from terminating completely after closing the
last window of the SUT.
-
Performance and memory consumption have been improved in several places.
- Swing
The title of a
JPanel with a TitledBorder is now correctly retrieved as its
feature.
- Swing
The order of the components in a Swing
JSplitPane seen by QF-Test could vary depending on the
order of creation and replacement of those components. QF-Test now uses left->right or top->bottom order
irrespective of that.
- Web
QF-Test now also supports automatic ChromeDriver download for the Google Chrome variants "Dev" and "Canary".
- Web
QF-Test sometimes failed to record events after frame navigation in CDP-Driver mode.
- Web
An exception was fixed that could cause failures during document initialization in CDP connection mode.
- Web
The "label" attribute of an OPTION element is now taken into account when determining the name of the
option.
- Web
When a browser window crashes in CDP connection mode, an error is now reported and the window is
automatically closed.
- Web
Handling of unload dialogs during web tests with CDP-Driver connection mode has been improved.
- Web
When running web tests on a headless browser with CDP-Driver connection mode QF-Test no longer attempts to
show a temporary Swing dialog for file up- or download. As a result, headless-only web tests with
CDP-Driver should now run as batch tests in a container with no X-server at all.
- Web
Synchronization with animations in web applications has been improved for CDP-driver connection mode.
- Web
By default, console output of Firefox in Webdriver connection mode was redirected to the process' standard
output so that QF-Test could check it for JavaScript errors. Due to the potentially heavy load on CPU and
memory this has been turned off and can be re-enabled by setting the parameter
consoleOutputValue to 1 in the call to the procedure qfs.web.browser.settings.doStartupSettings in the standard library qfs.qft.
New features:
-
The bundled GeckoDriver was updated to version 0.30.0.
Bugs fixed:
-
A memory leak in QF-Test, introduced in version 5.3.3 has been fixed.
-
The procedure
qfs.autowin.acrobat.saveAsText in the standard library
qfs.qft now also works for Acrobat Reader version 21.6 and up.
New features:
- SWT
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.21 alias "2021-09".
- Web
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 78 and 79.
- Web
Support for JxBrowser 7.17, 7.18 and 7.19 was added.
- Web
The bundled cdp4j library was updated to version 5.4.0.
Bugs fixed:
-
The dialog for editing step details is now properly shown the range of visible screens, even when a
previously attached monitor gets removed or when switching a session to RDP.
Bugs fixed:
- Web
Some websites containing custom HTML elements were not testable with CDP connection mode.
- Web
In CDP connection mode whitespace was missing from fetched text in some cases.
- Web
In CDP connection mode, the keyCode property of key events generated from text is now set correctly.
- Web
In CDP connection mode the location of elements in nested IFRAMEs was calculated wrongly.
- Web
The 'Name of the browser window' attribute of 'Wait for document to load' nodes was ignored.
New features:
-
Support was added for testing applications based on Java 17.
- SWT
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.20 alias "2021-06".
-
Performance in CDP connection mode with dynamic content updates has been improved.
-
Support for JxBrowser 7.16 was added.
- Electron
QF-Test now supports applications built with Electron 14 or newer, if the
@electron/remote is
bundled with the app.
-
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 77.
Bugs fixed:
- Web
Validity of text input to web applications via single events has been improved through additional
explicitly defined keycodes.
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 11.3.4 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.
New features:
- Web
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.
- Web
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 11.3.4 for
detailed information.
- Web
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.
- Web
The embedded Chrome browser used for QF-Driver mode has been updated to CEF version 89.
- Web
The bundled GeckoDriver was updated to version 0.29.1.
- Web
Support for JxBrowser 7.14 and 7.15 was added.
- Web
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 76.
-
The JRE distributed 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.
- Swing
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:
-
Installing a resolver via the generic method
resolvers.addResolver()
did not work in SUT scripts with the JavaScript language.
- Web
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.
- Windows-Tests
The qfs:label extra feature for elements within a TabPanel of a native WPF application
was not determined correctly.
- Web
Since QF-Test version 5.2.2 in very special cases elements in a web page were mistakenly considered to be
invisible.
- Mac
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.
- Swing
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.
New features:
- SWT
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.19 alias "2021-03".
Bugs fixed:
-
In special cases, unluckily placed comment nodes could lead to unwanted side-effects during test execution
like a 'Setup' or 'Cleanup' node run just for a comment.
-
Improved timing for client shutdown when ending batch mode execution.
- Web
In WebDriver connection mode mutations on a website might have gone unnoticed in case the page contained
too many elements.
New features:
-
Support was added for testing applications based on Java 16.
- Web
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 74.
- Web
The bundled GeckoDriver was updated to version 0.29.0.
-
The new shortcuts [Ctrl-/] or [Ctrl-7]
can be used to insert a new comment node in the test-suite tree.
Bugs fixed:
- Web
Several performance bottlenecks for web tests have been fixed, most notably for Firefox on Linux with
WebDriver.
- Web
In very rare situations, Chrome was closed in case a JavaScript-execution intervened with a frame reload.
- Web
Delayed attachment of a shadow DOM is now recognized correctly.
- Swing
In special cases the improved event synchronization for Swing might have missed some events, causing
slower test execution.
-
If a 'Test-case' with the 'Expected to fail if...' attribute set to true does not fail, it should
be treated as an error. That error was incorrectly reported as an expected error itself.
-
The sort order of parameters is now also automatically applied when changing the target procedure of a
'Procedure call' node via the chooser dialog.
New features:
- SWT
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.18 alias "2020-12".
-
Support for JxBrowser 7.12 was added.
Bugs fixed:
-
Due to wrong file permissions on Linux machines, Jython scripts would fail when running QF-Test as a user
other than the one that installed it.
-
The JRE distributed with QF-Test has been changed back to Zulu OpenJDK. The version remains 8_275.
-
In some cases, showing an alert box on a web page lead to a browser deadlock.
-
Several details for the Webswing integration have been improved, including correct filtering of KeyEvents,
focus handling for embedded JavaFX components and cleaner separation of client processes in the demo
test-suites.
-
Daemon connection might have failed during handshake if different java version where used on client and
server side.
-
Testing applications running on Java 7 is no longer supported.
- Windows-Tests
Many procedures in the standard library package
qfs.qft.autowin have been deprecated
in favor of the much better suited Windows engine.
-
Due to the updated JRE in the QF-Test installation, graphical elements and graphs in the PDF client may be
painted with slightly different anti-aliasing. This can lead to errors in 'Check image' nodes.
Given that such problems cannot be ruled out for future JRE updates you should set the
'Algorithm for image comparison' attribute of affected nodes to "algorithm=similarity;expected=0.98".
New features:
-
QF-Test now supports integrated testing of Swing and JavaFX applications that are displayed in a browser
using the technologies Webswing or JPro. See chapter 17 for an explantion of the concepts
and the demo test-suite for Webswing, accessible via the menu »Help«-»Explore example test-suites...«, entry "Webswing SwingSet Suite".
- Mac
QF-Test is now notarized by Apple and thus starts on modern macOS systems without showing a warning message.
- Web
QF-Test now also supports testing with the Microsoft Edge browser on Linux.
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The JRE distributed with QF-Test has been updated to Liberica OpenJDK version 8_275.
- Web
The embedded Chrome browser used for QF-Driver mode has been updated to CEF version 85.
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Groovy has been updated to version 3.0.6.
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Jython has been updated to version 2.7.2.
- Web
Support for JxBrowser 7.11 was added.
- Web
The embedded GeckoDriver has been updated to version 0.28.0.
- Web
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 72.
- Web
Device specifications for many current mobile devices have been added to mobile emulation mode.
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The JUnit library has been updated to version 5.7.0.
- Web
On Windows systems with a scaled display QF-Test now starts QF-Driver browsers in compatibility mode so that
scaling is transparently handled by Windows and tests work very similar to unscaled mode except for image
checks.
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It is now possible to specify options on the command line via the argument
-option <name>=<value>.
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QF-Test command line arguments can now contain "." and "-" characters in arbitrary places and upper or lower
case characters at will.
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When testing Java applications, QF-Test can now intercept calls that open a native browser window in order to
launch a browser controlled by QF-Test for the given URL. An example is provided in the demo test-suites
"CarConfig test project" and "CarConfig JavaFX test project", accessible via the menu item
»Help«-»Explore sample test-suites...«.
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The new procedure
qfs.utils.waitForClientOutput in the standard library
qfs.qft assists in synchronizing with terminal output of the SUT.
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Several more node conversions are now possible.
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The 'Server HTTP request' step now also supports the
PATCH method.
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The two new procedures
qfs.utils.sendKey and qfs.utils.sendText
in the standard library qfs.qft can be used to enter text into the currently focused element
of the active window.
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The 'No events were recorded' dialog can now be suppressed via the new option Show message if no events were recorded.
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When merging run-logs in batch mode, the command line argument
-mergelogs-masterlog [<file>] can now be
combined with -mergelogs-mode [<mode>] set to "append". The appended run-logs will be stored as
externalized thus minimizing memory use both during merging and when opening the resulting run-log.
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Similar to Jython, script steps for Groovy and JavaScript can now use common exceptions without an
explicit import.
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When propagating the parameters of a callable node to its callers, there are now explicit choices for
whether to add missing parameters, remove extraneous parameters and/or update the sort order.
Bugs fixed:
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Opening a run-log with an automatic re-run still in progress could lead to an exception.
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Encrypted connections to the QF-Test daemon are now also supported by the external daemon-API.
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When generating reports, thumbnail images were created even if -report-thumbnails was not specified.
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The 'Unit test' step now correctly supports the
self.assertEqual call in Jython scripts.
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Text input on Swing and JavaFX components was slowed down if a browser embedded into Java was detected.
- Swing
Event synchronization under heavy load for Swing based applications has been improved.
- Swing
Text input with single events on a Swing JTextArea now handles newline characters correctly.
- Windows-Tests
Elements of Windows applications may not have been scrolled visible correctly for hard events and image
checks.
- Web
With a browser in WebDriver mode a failed frame focus switch could lead to a StackOverflowException.
- Web
In some cases the MSEdgeDriver was not downloaded correctly.
- Web
Checks on elements inside a shadow DOM could not be recorded.
- Web
Soft (invisible) hyphen characters are now implicitly ignored.
- Electron
In some cases, dialog boxes from Electron where displayed empty.
- JavaFX
The visibility of JavaFX components embedded in Swing was sometimes not determined correctly.
- SWT
For SWT version 4.17 on Windows highlight rectangles on Menus were not restored correctly.
New features:
- SWT
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.17 alias "2020-09".
Bugs fixed:
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In rare cases QF-Test could crash during image compression if memory was tight.
New features:
- Web
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 70.
- Web
The embedded GeckoDriver has been updated to version 0.27.0.
- Web
For WebDriver based tests with Chrome/Chromium, site isolation is automatically deactivated.
- Web
Support for JxBrowser 7.10 was added.
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A link to the JavaScript documentation was added to the help menu.
Bugs fixed:
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The 'Unit test' node now also searches for JUnit 5 (Jupiter) tests on the classpath.
- Electron
In some cases, native menu clicks on Electron applications were not properly recorded.
- Web
The cache of Chromium based browsers might not have been cleared properly.
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The option Enable 'Local variable' attribute by default will now be taken into account when pasting a copied
'Procedure' node as a 'Procedure call', for node conversions in general and also when recording
checks.
- Web
A deadlock could occur if embedded browser containers (e.g. JxBrowser) were removed and added at the same
time.
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Adding 'Comment' nodes to a procbuilder configuration file could break procedure recording.
- Mac
On macOS, JVM options (starting with "-J-") are now handled correctly.
- Windows-Tests
Text input in Windows applications may not have worked properly when the AltGr key was involved.
- Web
When working with dialogs in headless browser tests, sometimes the invisible dialog was not closed
properly.
- Web
A ClassNotFoundException could be triggered when an SWTBrowser was under test.
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When creating procedures via the Procbuilder using FORCECREATION the separation dots for the package
structure were replaced by underscores.
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When generating procedures via the Procbuilder values from the 'Extra features' of parent and grand
parent nodes can now be used as fallback.
Due to the updated JRE in the QF-Test installation, graphical elements and graphs in the PDF client may be
painted with slightly different anti-aliasing. This can lead to errors in 'Check image' nodes.
Given that such problems cannot be ruled out for future JRE updates you should set the
'Algorithm for image comparison' attribute of affected nodes to "algorithm=similarity;expected=0.98".
The JRE update can also cause communication problems between QF-Test and the QF-Test license server in case
the license server is run with a very old Java version that cannot cope with the key length required for
SSL in current Java versions. In that case it is best to update the license server to the current QF-Test
version and use its included JRE.
The library jniwrapper is no longer loaded by default because our old
jniwrapper version crashes QF-Test on newer JDKs. Modules with native dependencies like
autowin have been rewritten to no longer depend on it and all references to
jniwrapper have been removed from the standard library qfs.qft.
If you still have script nodes in your test-suites that depend on jniwrapper you should try to
reimplement these in order to remove that dependency. Please get in touch with our support if you need
help.
As an interim solution you can get such scripts to work again (on older JDKs where jniwrapper does not
crash) as follows:
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Copy the files from
misc/jniwrapper in the QF-Test installation directory to
qftest in the QF-Test plugin directory. To locate those directories, open the
»Help«-»Info« dialog and look for
dir.version and dir.plugin on the 'System info' tab.
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Add either a Jython server script to your startup sequence with
from com.jniwrapper import DefaultLibraryLoader
from java.io import File
DefaultLibraryLoader.getInstance().addPath \
(File(rc.lookup("qftest", "dir.plugin") + "/qftest"))
or the following Groovy variant
import com.jniwrapper.DefaultLibraryLoader
DefaultLibraryLoader.getInstance().addPath
(new File(rc.lookup("qftest", "dir.plugin") +
"/qftest"))
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The ChromeDriver library for old Chrome versions (older than 72) is not bundled wit QF-Test anymore.
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Testing applications running on Java 7 ist still supported in this QF-Test version. However, support for Java
7 has been deprecated and will be removed in QF-Test version 5.2.
Video:
QF-Test 5.1.0.
New features:
-
Support was added for testing applications based on Java 15.
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The JRE distributed with QF-Test has been updated to Zulu OpenJDK version 8_252.
- Web
Recording and replay of tests for embedded browsers has been significantly improved.
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JxBrowser is now supported in version 7, embedded into Swing, JavaFX or Eclipse/SWT applications.
- Electron
Support was added for handling native dialogs in Electron applications.
- Web
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 69.
- Web
Support for the web framework Qooxdoo has been updated for Qooxdoo version 6.
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HTML reports can now be customized via JavaScript in the form of a
user.js. See subsection 21.1.4 for details.
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The
automac module now provides methods for simulating keyboard and mouse events. See
chapter 49 for further information.
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The root node of a test-suite now also has a 'Name' attribute that is shown in the tree.
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The new option Enable 'Local variable' attribute by default determines, whether the attribute 'Local
variable' gets pre-activated in newly created nodes.
-
The procedure
qfs.utils.dragAndDrop in the standard library qfs.qft
has a new optional parameter eventDelay to control replay speed.
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It is now possible to convert a 'CSV data file' node into an 'Excel data file' node and vice versa.
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Test-suite tabs can be moved left or right using the keyboard shortcuts [Shift-Ctrl-Page up] and [Shift-Ctrl-Page down].
Bugs fixed:
New features:
- SWT
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.16 alias "2020-06".
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The included
jsch.jar library used by the qfs.utils.ssh package in the
standard library qfs.qft has been updated to version 0.1.55 in order to add support for
modern Linux systems like Ubuntu 20.
Bugs fixed:
-
The included WebP image compression library was rolled back to version 1.0.0 to avoid incompatibilities.
- Web
Component recognition might have failed when web components had non-integer sizes.
-
In rare cases calling
rc.callProcedure inside the parameters of a 'Procedure call' node
could lead to the global variables in the variable stack getting lost.
-
The special syntax ${qftest:engine.<componentid>} that can be used to determine the engine of a
component now also works if <componentid> contains a '@', '%' or '&' character.
-
Selecting a single value in a run-log's error list and using "Set value as filter" twice caused an
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
New features:
-
The WebP image compression library has been updated to version 1.1.0.
-
Keyboard event input in JX Browser is now more stable.
-
Contrast of toolbar icons has been improved especially for disabled buttons.
-
QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 68.
Bugs fixed:
-
Angular 9 is now auto-detected correctly.
-
The 'CSV data file' node now correctly handles UTF-8 encoded files with BOM that start with an
encapsulated complex expression.
- Windows-Tests
The 'Start windows application' node can again attach to a client via a given class name (-class) in the
'Window title' attribute.
-
Error handling and retry for automatic downloads of WebDriver libraries has been improved.
- Windows-Tests
Recording elements with a flat hierarchy did not work.
-
The PDF client is now able to check a Text component which contains only null "\u0000"
characters and treats it as an empty String.
New features:
- Windows-Tests
A new demo test-suite was added for the Windows 10 Calculator.
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QF-Test now supports Opera 67 with Operadriver 80.0.3987.100.
- SWT
QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT 4.15 alias "2020-03".
Bugs fixed:
- Windows-Tests
When recording components for the whole window, elements within a WPF TabPanel were omitted.
-
The
qfs.database.executeSelectStatement procedure now works again for databases
requiring an explicit db.commit() statement.
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When executing a 'Server HTTP request' node, the returned body was mistakenly not stored in a variable in case
of a server error.
- JavaFX
Processing JavaFX images in order to calculate a hash value could cause a
NullPointerException; to get printed to the terminal.
- Windows-Tests
Fixed a bug where a TextField in a Windows application might not get cleared before input.
- Windows-Tests
Occasionally a ModalDialogException might get incorrectly thrown in WPF Windows applications.
Note
For a detailed list of new features please see the release notes below for QF-Test versions 5.0.0.
The following major new features have been implemented for QF-Test version 5:
Changes that can affect test execution:
Software that is no longer supported:
Note
Please see section 1.1 for a detailed list of system requirements
and supported technology versions.
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Testing of applications based on Java 6 is no longer supported.
New features:
-
With the new Windows engine QF-Test can now test native Windows applications.
-
Support was added for testing applications based on Java 14.
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The new 'Comment' node can be used to improve the structure and readability of test-suites and run-logs.
-
It is now possible to download a file via the new 'Save response to file' attribute of the
'Server HTTP request' node.
- Windows-Tests
A package for Windows applications has been added to the standard library
qfs.qft.
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On Windows 10 QF-Test is now correctly displayed at scaled high resolution displays.
- Web
In the manual the chapter Web testing has been revised and a section (subsection 47.1.3) describing the procedure
qfs.web.ajax.installCustomWebResolver of the standard library has been added.
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The option Show message dialog after now has a setting to show a message dialog also when a
test run finishes successfully.
-
If the result dialog gets shown after a search the search dialog is now closed automatically.
-
The new procedure
qfs.util.click in the standard library qfs.qft can be
used to click at an arbitrary position on the screen.
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You can now create an electron start sequence in the quickstart wizard that automatically detects the
required ChromeDriver.
-
When copying a 'Procedure call', 'Test call' or 'Dependency reference' node the name of the
target node is now also copied as text to the clipboard.
- Web
The bundled GeckoDriver has been updated to version 0.26.0.
- Web
On Windows, tests with the Microsoft Edge 78 and newer are also possible in headless mode.
- Web
QF-Test now supports Opera 66 with Operadriver 79.0.3945.79.
-
The new variable
engine.$(componentId) in the qftest special group makes it
possible to find out which GUI-engine a component belongs to.
-
The project tree view in QF-Test now uses a natural sort order, respecting indexes and cases.
-
Data for several new mobile devices was added to the Mobile Emulation setup in the quickstart wizard.
Bugs fixed:
-
An image might have been removed from the run-log in low-memory situations.
-
Fixed a sporadic exception that could appear when creating a test-suite from a run-log.
- 'Finally' nodes inside a 'Try' now get executed even when an instant rerun gets
triggered from within the 'Try' node.
ImageWrapper methods now log warnings whenever the method fails.
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In very rare cases the [Ctrl] key might accidentally have stayed in pressed state
after finishing replay.
