Release Notes 19.x

see also: Release Notes 21.x
see also: Release Notes 20.x
see also: Release Notes 18.x

Release 19.2 (December 2019)

• STD-LIB: Additional Count/Search/Select and Collect actions (which take another action as match-function)
• Feature: Support Apple IOS 13 in mobile testing plugin
• Feature: GIT source code management plugin
• Feature: freeze values are now expanded with variable- and inputPin values by default. The old behavior can be configured via the freeze-value menu.
  WARNING: this may lead to possible incompatibilities with older suites. This expansion feature can be globally disabled via a flag in the project-flag settings page. Use the search function "Search for expanded Freeze Values" to check for freeze values which may possibly be expanded (i.e. which contain "$(...)"patterns.
• Feature: optional C-Style escape sequences in string freeze values.
• Feature: Datatype of a step's output pin can be changed iff the corresponding action pin has an abstract type.
• Feature: Inspector shows JSON encoding if possible
• Feature: new environment-variable initialization mode: "Constant - Not Expanded"
• Feature: option to add a timestamp to messages sent to the Transcript
• Feature: improved suite-difference browser/viewer
• Feature: bridged Jython actions
• Feature: Freezevalue Rewrite Dialog (in context menu of the project); to search for and rewrite many freeze values in one operation
• Feature: Shrinkwrap checks for names of attachments being possibly used as freeze value.
• Feature: new OS Process Monitor Tool.
• Feature: Shell script actions can have additional output pins
• Feature: Additional directories can be added to the PATH for scripts and external interpreters.
• Feature: new Action Finder Tool in the action selection dialog.
• Feature: Mobile Testing: Enhanced handling of WebViews in mobile apps
• Feature: Mobile Testing: New Supplements available for Windows and Mac OS containing Appium version 1.16.0-rc.1.
• Feature: Mobile Testing: Manage chromedriver for Android devices in the connection dialog.
• Feature: SeleniumWebDriverLibrary: The blocks for element actions now can handle both locators and WebElements.
• Feature: Selenium WebDriver Plugin: Improved handling of contents embedded in an iframe.
• Feature: Selenium WebDriver Plugin: Support for svg contents
• UI Enhancement: hidden connections in diagrams
• Bugfix: Some datatype elements prevented import-library unloading (due to false-positive reference finding). This only happened with types referring to a builtin type (eg. "Image"-type)
• Bugfix: Selenium WebDriver Plugin: Add delay for Chrome execution

Release 19.1 (June 2019)

• Bugfix: multiline strings where not allowed in environment variables
• Feature: CSV read actions allow for different number of columns per row
• Feature: new improved CSV reader to extract columns by name directly
• Feature: much improved NodeJS debugging support (breakpoint, single step, abort)
• Feature: bridged Python actions
• Feature: empty test plans are treated like empty compounds w.r.t. error reporting (i.e. they report an error unless the "allow empty actions" execution setting is enabled).
• Feature: option (setting) to control if empty actions and empty test plans are to be reported as error or as inconclusive.
• Feature: search-option for invalid names in call-by-name statements
• Feature: automatic code rewrite when called actions are renamed
• Feature: Ministatus window and autohide during test execution
• Feature: optional autoresize when renaming steps
• Feature: new pin-menu functions to bulk-freeze all corresponding pins in the whole suite
• Feature: much improved Testsuite browser, which is now found in the "File"-Menu
• Feature: asynchronous event handling framework
• Feature: Java Plugin: improved support for applications using multiple Java technologies, especially providing access to the content of frames within a WebView context
• Feature: Java Plugin: element highlighting for JavaFX
• Feature: Java Plugin: default skip mode for Java Swing set to ALL_HYBRID to get new paths using all elements while providing backwards compatibility for old paths
• Feature: WindowsAutomation2 Plugin now supports Desktop-Mode in addition to Single-Application Mode
• Feature: WindowsAutomation2 Plugin: new Blocks in Library to start an application
• Feature: Selenium WebDriver Plugin: Recorder has scrollbars to indicate and change the position of the current view within the document
• Feature: SeleniumWebDriverLibrary: default click parameters from environment; new blocks e.g. 'Get in New Tab', 'Switch to Window by URL', 'Take Element Screenshot'
• Performance: Speed improvement in shrinkwrap library operation
• UI Enhancements
• UI Enhancement: CTRL-e shortcut to freeze a selected pin from environment variable
• UI Enhancement: CTRL-p shortcut to toggle a pin's isParameter behavior
• UI Enhancement: additional menu items for debugging, to control bridges and to install "npm" and "pip" packages
• STD-LIB: The Trigger and Stream-NextElement action blocks had wrong typed output pins. These now adapt to whatever they are connected to (template type)
• Misc: Webtest: larger collection of different WebDriver versions to support more browser versions (e.g. Chrome 62-74, Firefox 52 and higher); to support more recent versions, additional driver versions can be added by the user
• Misc: updates/changes to support Java 11.

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