Overview of newsletters

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.