Selenium-Core: Release Notes

Selenium Core 1.0 beta-1

Selenium Core 0.8.3

New in 0.8.3:

• A new XPath count command, which tells you how many elements match a given XPath
• Our HTML Selenese TestRunner can now save the logs of an automated test run along with the Selenese test results
• Significant fixes/improvements in our XPath support
• Fixed our long broken readyState.xpi to support Firefox 2 in multiWindow mode

Warnings:

• There are a few small changes in the API. windowMaximize and windowFocus no longer take an argument; just "selectWindow" to the window you want to maximize/focus before you call them. Also, the "getLogMessages" accessor has been removed; it never really worked properly anyway, and we now support much more sophisticated logging.
• Use of the multiWindow mode in Firefox still requires installation of the "readyState.xpi" extension, available in the Selenium Core distribution.

For more details, see the JIRA release summary.

Selenium Core 0.8.2

Version 0.8.2 is a bug-fix release for Selenium Core. A critical bug was fixed in all waitFor* commands that made them never timeout. Other bug fixes were mostly in in element highlighting and support for IE HTA mode.

Warnings:

• Selenium's support for handling baseUrls has changed from version 0.8.1. Whereas before, opening relative URLs with the "open" command would result in windows opening relative to TestRunner.html, they now open relative to your test suite. Tests using relative URLs may therefore fail in 0.8.2. Fortunately, 0.8.2 also adds support for specifying an arbitrary baseUrl by specifying it in the TestRunner query string, like this: TestRunner.html?baseUrl=http://localhost/blah/

  Note that your baseUrl should end with a "/". If it does not end in a slash, we'll have to assume that it's really a file and strip off everything after the slash.

• Use of the multiWindow layout in Firefox requires installation of the "readyState.xpi" extension, available in the Selenium Core distribution.

For more details, see the JIRA release summary.

Selenium Core 0.8.1

Version 0.8.1 is a bug-fix release for Selenium Core. New features include support for holding down Ctrl/Shift/Alt while performing click and mouse events, and support for Firefox 2.0 and IE7. We also fixed a LOT of bugs.

Warnings:

• Use of the multiWindow layout in Firefox requires installation of the "readyState.xpi" extension, available in the Selenium Core distribution.

For more details, see the JIRA release summary.

Selenium Core 0.8.0

Highlights include:

• a "multiWindow" option which places the application-under-test in a separate window, allowing testing of "frame-busting" apps;
• more reliable page-load detection for popup windows;
• new cookie-management actions;
• a run-speed slider and "Pause" button which replace the old Run/Walk/Step radio-buttons;
• many bug-fixes and stability improvements;
• tested against latest versions of Firefox, IE6, Opera, Konqueror, Safari and WebKit.

Warnings:

• Use of the multiWindow layout in Firefox requires installation of the "readyState.xpi" extension, available in the Selenium Core distribution.
• We've been doing a lot of refactoring within the Selenium Javascript code, particularly in the area of the "TestRunner" user-interface: it's likely that some user-extensions may break as a result.

For more details, see the JIRA release summary.

Selenium Core 0.7.1

updated browser support

Firefox 1.5.0.6 and Opera 9, fixed support on Firefox 1.0.8

drag and drop support

new dragAndDrop command lets you configure drag-and-drop elements (may require some workarounds; see documentation for details)

cursor position commands

new get/setCursorPosition commands to control the location of the text cursor

window management commands

new commands allow you to maximize the browser window, focus the current window, and get a list of all open windows

breakpoints

set breakpoints in HTML tests with a single click, for easier debugging

CSS locator syntax

identify elements using CSS selectors (e.g. 'css=a[href="#id3"]')

element highlighting

optionally you can highlight elements as they are being used in Selenium tests

Selenium Core 0.7.0

updated browser support

Firefox 1.5.0.3, Opera 8, and improved stability in all browsers

improved AJAX support

"waitFor" commands are available for every assertion, to allow you to detect and respond to asynchronous activity

mouse/key events

keyUp, keyDown, keyPress, mouseDown, mouseOver...

comments

easily add comments in between HTML Selenese tables

HTA support from the command line

Automatically run Selenium Core tests and save them to disk using an MS IE HTA file

Selenium 0.6.0

pattern-matching

Support for regular-expression and exact matching. Allow patterns to be used to match alert and confirmation messages.

support for Javascript prompts

Capture and verify prompt-messages, set up return values.

fireEvent command

Allows arbitrary events to be raised.

logging

New "pop up" log window.

error-handling

Better handling and reporting of internal errors.

bug-fixes

Various defects fixed.

See also: JIRA release-summary.

Selenium 0.5.0

"waitForValue" command

Tells Selenium to wait until an input element has a specified value.

"close" command

Closes an open popup window

DOM Viewer

Now works in IE, show/hide works in all browsers

Option locators

Can now select options based on index, value or id, as well as label

verifyLocation

Now handles querystring in the url

selectWindow

Can now select windows that aren't assigned to a global variable

TestRunner hanging

Fixed problem found in some IE installations

See also: JIRA release-summary.

Selenium 0.4.0

This release breaks backward compatibility in 3 ways:

1. The 'click' command now requires the 'AndWait' suffix in order to wait for a page to reload. The 'nowait' parameter is no longer supported.
2. The previously undocumented 'link:' locator is now specified as 'link=the link text'
3. The previously undocumented 'setVariable' command has been renamed to 'store', with slightly different semantics.

Safari support

Most Selenium features now work in Safari!

Click command doesn't wait

Use 'clickAndWait' to wait for a page reload

Locator specificity

Can use prefixes ('id=', 'xpath=' etc) to specify exactly which locator strategy to use.

Better XPath support

Works in Konqueror, and is faster on other platforms.

Javascript parameters

All parameters can now take a javascript{...} syntax, constructing the parameter value from javascript.

Handle 'AndWait' commands in popup windows

This bug has been fixed

Bug fixes

Many broken things fixed.

See also: JIRA release-summary.

Selenium 0.3.0

• Standalone server for testing remote sites
• Improved in-browser user interface
• Zope product plug-in for Plone Content Management System
• Many, many bug fixes

Selenium 0.2

• Java and Ruby drivers
• Cross browser capability improved