new Features:

Bugs fixed:

• Firefox 3.6 beta crashed when using the en-us version and recording tests on forms.
• Determination of the size of specific body element’s returned wrong values.
• Wait for absence was not working correctly for invisible nodes.
• Automatic scrolling of web pages for image checks and replay of hard events was not working as expected in certain circumstances.
• Some text checks resulted in empty string checks.
• After cancelling a download on a web page recording of events was not possible in some cases.
• Closing modal popups sometimes caused an exception in the browser engine.
• Changing locale of the browser during run time was not working correctly.
• Return value of getSourcecode was lacking the surrounding HTML-tag.
• When selecting the “What’s this?”-Link (contextual help) from the context menu the index page of the documentation was opened and not the correct sub page.

new Features:

- Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta is now supported (please use the latests beta release for testing)
- Although Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 had some issues on systems running Microsoft Windows XP the latest versions Mozilla Firefox 3.5.6 is fully supported again.

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed some concerning scrolling and image checks.
• procedure readTextFromFile in itc.w2t was missing parameters.
• Closing modal popups through javascript:window.close() sometimes crashed.
• The FAQ link in the manual was leading to an empty page.
• Several potential crash issues in MutationListeners

If you plan to use Mozilla Seamonkey 2 for testing please contact us, because this version uses statically linked binaries and you need to use a special workaround.

Best regards,
web2test team

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed some issues concerning testreports.
• Javascript based scrolling sometimes resulted in invisible/unreachable parts of a web page.
• Some HTML-pages of chapter FAQ in the manual were missing
• Check border on open javascript alert/confirm-dialogw as not removed when disabling checkmode.

new Features:

• New reporting mechanism added to web2test which contains a complete survey of all executed actions (Events) and assertions (Checks) during a test-run (see manual chapter 14.2).
• A FAQ-chapter was added to the manual to simplfy the handling of common problems.
• Enhanced documentation for converting/packing nodes.
• Where scrolling a web page is required to perform a hard event or an image check, web2test now tries to scroll a web page itself via Javascript calls instead of relying on the browser’s internal mechanism which often completely messes up the display especially on web page with iframes.
• All textfields, terminals etc. in web2test’s user interface can now be searched locally by pressing Ctrl+F when the field owns the keyboard focus.
• Component recognition based on geometry can now be suppressed by setting the coordinate and size attributes of a Component to “-”.
• It is now possible to specify just the Class count or Class index of a Component node and ignore the other.
• Operations that search for or result in changes to multiple nodes now bring up a separate result dialog listing the affected nodes. You can navigate to specific nodes directly from that dialog.
• The keyboard shortcut for the “Redo” operation was changed from Ctrl-R to Ctrl-Y since this has become a de facto standard.
• The warning about nested Test-case execution can now be suppressed via the option Log warning for nested test-cases.
• Copying or Dragging a procedure situated in the procedures nodes now automatically creates a corresponding procedure call.

Bugs fixed:

• Several potential memory leaks and null pointer issues which could be caused by invalid html.
• DocumentComplete-Events on about:blank pages were recorded in Mozilla based Browsers and not recognized during replay.
• Jython NameError occured when using a ChoiceOption with rc.setOption()-mechanism.
• assignment of Javascript-variables through JS-Bridge had no impact on the actual values in the browser window.
• Some Cascading Stylesheed-issues in the generated Reports and Test-Reports.
• special Javascript-Confirm-Dialog was not displayed in Mozilla Firefox.
• NullpointerException in MutationListener when using multiple popups.
• Exception in Browser-Engine after showing a Download-dialog and selecting cancel.
• Popup-dialog was not returning the correct return value in some cases.
• Closing browser-window while in checkmode was not working correctly.
• Exception occured when calling ShowModalDialog through JS-Bridge.
• Using the replace dialog to replace a regular expression with an empty string caused an exception.
• When creating reports, warnings can be suppressed entirely by specifying -report.warnings=false for batch mode or deactivating the respective option in the dialog for interactive report generation.

new Features:

• Support for recording/replaying HTTP/HTTPS requests
• Support for Mozilla Firefox 3.5
• Enhanced eventlisteners especially for registering mutation events and events concerning browser navigation
• Optimized check mechanism: Custom Checkers are now fully documented and can be created for all check data types. All ‘Check’ nodes now have a ‘Check type identifier’ attribute and the old ‘Check editable’, ‘Check enabled’ and ‘Check selected’ nodes were replaced with ‘Boolean check’ nodes with a matching ‘Check type identifier’.
• It is now possible to bookmark test-suites, run-logs and individual nodes in a test-suite so they are directly accessible via the new sub-menu »File«-»Bookmarks
• added several new variants for converting and (un)packing nodes

Bugs fixed:

• Javascript bridge was not allowing write access to all elements in a website
• Javascript bridge sometimes caused javascript errors in runlog (Object.rettype/Object.retval)
• autocompletion for classes DialogNode and FrameNode was missing
• stop button and corresponding events were not working in popup windows
• server url’s containing “#”-elements were sometimes ignored during recording
• some descriptions of specific constants were missing in the manual
• In very rare cases browser engine crashed while displaying pages with hidden div elements.
• several minor issues with javascript triggered popups
• DaemonTestRunListeners did not work correctly in asynchronous mode
• (reporting) screenshots for failed image checks were always saved regardless of whether the failed check actually represented an error or was just a part of a conditional construct.
• When determining uniqueness of “id” attributes for use as names, web2test was too strict so that in some cases potential names were not assigned.
• Waiting for a new document did not handle the window name attribute correctly.
• Option settings from rc.setOption() in the SUT were reset whenever options were changed in the option dialog.
• With JDK 1.6 some of web2test’s dialogs were not displayed with the correct size.
• Several problems with split run-logs were fixed.

Bugs fixed:

• Browser Engine was recording a “wait for DocumentComplete”-Node twice on local websites
• WINDOW_CLOSING-Event was recorded in Mozilla Firefox when window closing was initiated by javascript
• Timeout-Handling of “Wait for DownloadComplete” was not triggered correctly
• NullpointerException when trying to select more than one procedure in insert procedure call dialog

• Highly flexible JavaScript bridge for:
  • Access to JavaScript objects, functions, values, …
  • Access to CSS-properties
• New package (itc.checks.style) in standard procedures with several new procedures for checking color- and font-attributes
• Improved handling for procedures/packages (e.g. procedure calls are updated when a procedure is moved from one package to another)
• “rc.setOption” to set a majority of the program options temporarily for selected test cases or parts thereof
• Extended tutorial with two new main chapters and several optimizations:
  • Dealing with AJAX elements in a test-suite
  • Dependencies - Automatically ensuring correct prerequisites for each Test-case
• Enhanced and simpified manual
• Enhanced support for modal dialogs (opened using javascript:window.showModalDialog(…))
• For java version 1.6 an higher java applets which are embedded in web pages are displayed correctly
• Enhanced run-log (stacktrace of initialized variables is attached to run-log if errors occur; makes it easier to find errors in test scripts)
• New runcontext procedures (skipTestSet, skipTestCase, stopTestSet, stopTestCase)
• Support for relative procedure calls
• Enhanced web2test daemon (daemon.startRemoteSUT(),daemon.ping())

Bugs fixed:

• Opening browser window was only possible under Linux when using Java 1.4
• Browser window crashed when opening a dialog using javascript:showModelessDialog()
• Browser engine occasionally crashed when a popup window was closed while other popup windows were still open
• Dialogs opened using showModalDialog/showModelessDialog had no return value
• Closing a browser window in Internet Explorer 8 using javascript:window.close() resulted in a stacktrace in the web2test console
• Title of browser window was not changed if set using javascript:document.title=”…”
• web2test program dialogs were displayed in the wrong size (sometimes even bigger than the screen resolution)
• Main window of web applications based on bmc remedy was not reactivated when closing a corresponding popup window
• Some images were misplaced in the manual
• Several typos in manual
• Hyperlink in dialog for requesting an evaluation license was pointing to the wrong address
• Documentation of itc.browser.settings.doStartupSettings was missing a parameter
• Browser window was navigating to about:blank if a window close confirm-dialog was canceled
• Some web2test options had English labels in German version
• getAttributeIfSpecified always returned 1 for some elements
• Document complete node was recorded twice for several websites

• With “rc.setOption” a majority of the program options can not only be set globally but also temporarily for selected test cases or parts thereof. This largely increases the flexibility of the test cases.
• In the new version the user can access Javascript objects in the browser DOM for reading and writing via a Javascript bridge. Together with the Javascript bridge there are also new standard procedures included - e.g. for the verification of CSS properties.

• Assessment of the different approaches of web testing software which is currently available on the market
• Detailed explanation of necessary prerequisites and scenarios for a successful test automation web
• Exact approach for data driven web application testing using web2test
• Special challenges when performing DHTML and AJAX tests for web applications
• Description of the different approaches of website testing with static and dynamic content
• Overview over the different subareas of web testing
• A comparison of browser embedding – the approach used by web2test – with other approaches of functional web testing
• Reasons for automated web testing instead of manual web testing
• Cross browser and cross platform web based application testing
• Testing dynamic IDs with a web application test tool
• The advantages of the web testing tool web2test at a glance
• Advantages and disadvantages when testing web applications with Capture & Replay