Hi all,
There have been a lot of changes since the last release of Watir - 1.6.2,
many of these being contributions we've received from various community
members, core committers and others. In the effort to include Firewatir as a
1st class citizen, there are a lot compatibility changes and refactorings in
this release, many platform issues have been taken care of, as well as api
differences. The list of changes is included below.
This is being released as a true release candidate for the first time
(given rubygems support in 1.3.2+ for this type of release) which among
other reasons is why we're requesting you update rubygems . Please report
any issues with detailed information - platform, ruby version, error trace,
test run and html from the SUT, if this is a new failure with the current
version of watir. The more platforms we can run this on the better to detect
any issues. Success for running your current tests based on platform is also
good to hear.
Installation instructions are here. The final build will be posted on
rubyforge and tagged in github, with news to update to the final version.
http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Development+Builds
Thanks for your help,
Charley
== Version 1.6.5.rc1
This is a release candidate.
=== New Features (Both IE and Firefox)
* Browser.attach is now available.
* Browser.options and Browser.set_options are now available.
* Add support for definition lists, this adds these methods:
dd, dt, dl, dds, dts, dls. (Jarib)
* Hidden#visible? should always return false. (Jarib)
* New method execute_script.
* Add ElementCollections#size as alias of length. (Jarib)
* Some camelCase = snake_case renames (with aliasing). (Jarib)
Image#fileCreatedDate = file_created_date
Image#fileSize = file_size
Image#hasLoaded?= loaded?
SelectList#getAllContents = options
SelectList#getSelectedItems = selected_options
SelectList#clearSelection = clear
SelectList#includes?= include?
TextField#dragContentsTo= drag_contents_to
Radio/Checkbox#isSet? = set?
* Patch for winclicker fix. http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-279 (Derek
Berner)
* Add support for using a Regexp as the third argument (value) when locating
checkboxes/radio buttons. (Jarib)
* Add support for strong element. (Jarib)
* Add support and tests for em element. (Jarib)
* SelectList#select now supports Numeric arguments. (Jarib)
* Additional inspect implementations for both IE and FF. (Jarib)
* Added ElementCollections#{first,last}. (Jarib)
* Fixes for running on Ruby 1.9. (Jarib)
=== Firefox Improvements
* SelectList#set is now defined for Firefox. Like with IE, it is an alias
for
SelectList#select. [271]
* Element collections are now enumerable. This allows methods such as
@select@
and @map@ to be used with methods such as @divs@ and @li...@.
* FireWatir.attach is now available, analogous to IE.attach.
* Some Javascript errors that were being ignored, now raise Ruby exceptions.
* Added event handler which resets the context of document
* Fix bug that occurred when new page was automatically loaded. (Angrez,
3ef8b6)
when page gets loaded automatically (Angrez)
* Changed code to use document_var, body_var, window_var, browser_var
instead of
document, body, window, browser variables. (Angrez)
* Changed code to replace every quote () in xpath query with (\) so that
it
doesn't give error while executing the xpath query (Angrez)
* Fire onchange event for FireWatir file fields. Closes WTR-286. (Jarib)
* Fixes for running and closing Firefox on Mac OS X
* added functionality to allow Watir::Browser.attach with no arguments to
open
a new firefox window rather than taking over the existing focused window
(Rob Aldred)
* also modified some setup functions to correctly handle closed browsers,
browserless windows and others (Rob Aldred)
* Add test and implementation for Firefox#status
http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-250 (Jarib)
=== IE Improvements
* Allow attach timeout to be accessed as an option. Thus:
IE.set_options :attach_timeout = 5.0
This was previously available as class method.
* Fix for Autoit auto-registration. (Bret)
* Fix for IE6, 7 and 8 file downloads. (Željko Filipin Jarmo Pertman)
* Replaced REXML with Nokogiri for xml parsing. (Aidy Lewis)
* Option now supports :label attribute http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-297
* Patch for IE.close causing WIN32OLE errors
http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-304 (Tony)
* Watir::IE.inspect issue fixed: http://jira.openqa.org/browse/WTR-180(Jarib)
* Fix for Browser#execute_script on IE7. (Jarib)
* Removed ActiveSupport dependency. (Jarib)
=== Structure Improvements
* Lots of rework of the FireWatir code, including removing duplication and
dead code, renaming variables, and simplifying code. Also a few
performance
improvements.
* Rename source file names for consistency.
=== Unit Tests
* Add tests demonstrating known bugs.
* Make the window tests run more
