[QF-Test] QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.1 released

• Subject: [QF-Test] QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.1 released
• From: Gregor.Schmid@?.de
• Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 17:30:50 +0200
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 QF-Test Medium Version 5.1 Released
 ===================================

The medium upgrade QF-Test 5.1 focuses on bringing support for
embedded browsers - JxBrowser (including version 7), SWT Browser and
JavaFX WebView, up to par with that for "normal" browsers. It also
comes with support for Java 15, native Electron dialogs and
customizable HTML reports. The internal JRE provided with QF-Test has
been updated to Zulu OpenJDK 8_252.

A short video about the new features is available at

    https://www.qfs.de/en/support/videos.html


 Release Notes for QF-Test 5.1.0
 ===============================

New Features
------------

* Support was added for testing applications based on Java 15.

* The JRE distributed with QF-Test has been updated to Zulu OpenJDK
  Version 8_252.

* Recording and replay of tests for embedded browsers has been
  significantly improved.

* JxBrower is now supported in version 7, embedded into Swing, JavaFX
  or Eclipse/SWT applications.

* Support was added for handling native dialogs in Electron
  applications.

* QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 69.

* Support for the web framework Qooxdoo has been updated for Qooxdoo
  version 6.

* HTML reports can now be customized via JavaScript in the form of a
  user.js. See subsection 20.1.4 for details.

* The automac module now provides methods for simulating keyboard and
  mouse events. See chapter 47 for further information.

* The root node of a test-suite now also has a 'Name' attribute that
  is shown in the tree.

* 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.

* It is now possible to convert a 'CSV data file' node into an 'Excel
  data file' node and vice versa.

* Test-suite tabs can be moved left or right using the keyboard
  shortcuts [Shift-Ctrl-Page up] and [Shift-Ctrl-Page down].


Bugs Fixed
----------

* The procedure qfs.web.browser.settings.setLocale now also works for
  WebDriver connections to Chromium based browsers.


Changes that can affect test execution
--------------------------------------

* 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:

  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.

  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"))

* The ChromeDriver library for old Chrome versions (older than 72) is
  not bundled wit QF-Test anymore.

* 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.

-- 
Gregor Schmid

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