[QF-Test] QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.4 released

• Subject: [QF-Test] QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.4 released
• From: Gregor.Schmid@?.de
• Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:59:12 +0100
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QF-Test version 5.4.0 is now available for download from

    https://www.qfs.de/en/qf-test/download.html

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 1. QF-Test Medium Upgrade 5.4 Released
 ======================================

The medium upgrade QF-Test 5.4 adds support for testing applications
based on Java 18, the embedded Chrome browser for QF-Driver has been
updated to CEF version 95 and Eclipse/SWT 4.22 alias "2021-12" is now
supported.

Electron applications can now be addressed via the far superior
CDP-Driver connection mode, the options dialog has a search
functionality and copy/paste of images is now possible for image check
nodes and screenshot logs.

Several more new features and version updates are complemented by
various bug fixes, some of which have a slight impact on backwards
compatibility as documented in the release notes in section 3 below or
online at

    https://www.qfs.de/en/qf-test-manual/lc/manual-en-history.html#app_news


 2. Preliminary Support for Android Testing
 ==========================================

This QF-Test release also includes support for Android testing as a
preview version. Android testing can be automated with virtual devices
using an emulator as well as with real devices connected via USB.

Test creation follows the same well-known patterns as the other UI
technologies including direct recording of test scenarios.

The manual will guide you through the required Android setup steps.
Feel free to take a look and please don't hesitate to request a free
trial license.


 3. Release Notes for QF-Test 5.4
 ================================

New Features:
-------------

* Support was added for testing applications based on Java 18.

* 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".

* 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.

* QF-Test now supports tests for applications based on Eclipse/SWT
  4.22 alias "2021-12".

* QF-Test now supports testing with Opera 80, 81 and 82.

* Support for JxBrowser 7.20 and 7.21 was added.

* 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 58.2 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.

* The title of a JPanel with a TitledBorder is now correctly retrieved
  as its feature.

* 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.

* QF-Test now also supports automatic ChromeDriver download for the
  Google Chrome variants "Dev" and "Canary".

* QF-Test sometimes failed to record events after frame navigation in
  CDP-Driver mode.

* An exception was fixed that could cause failures during document
  initialization in CDP connection mode.

* The "label" attribute of an OPTION element is now taken into account
  when determining the name of the option.

* When a browser window crashes in CDP connection mode, an error is
  now reported and the window is automatically closed.

* Handling of unload dialogs during web tests with CDP-Driver
  connection mode has been improved.

* 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.

* Synchronization with animations in web applications has been
  improved for CDP-driver connection mode.

* 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.


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

* 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.

* Components in a Swing JScrollPane, most notably JTree and JTable,
  were assigned inconsistent qfs:label extra features.

* 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.

* 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)".

* 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.

-- 
Gregor Schmid

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