Category Archives: Releases

Watir-Classic 3.4.0 Released!

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Hello everyone!

I’m happy to announce that Watir-Classic 3.4.0 has been released!

Put it into your Gemfile:

gem "watir-classic", "~> 3.4.0"

Or install it manually with:

gem install watir-classic

Biggest change is a complete documentation overhaul. Check it out at rubydoc.info/github/watir/watir-classic/frames

Other changes:

  • All deprecated methods will print out warnings.
  • Element#flash returns self instead of nil.
  • Fix frame locator in Frame#attach_command (issue #45).
  • Remove :zero_based_indexing option – from now on all index options are starting from zero.
  • Remove global variable $HIDE_IE – use IE.visible= method instead. Support for command line switch -b is also removed.
  • Remove global varialbe $FAST_SPEED – use IE.speed= method instead. Support for command line switch -f is also removed.
  • Remove IE#close_all – use browser.windows.each(&:close) instead.
  • Remove IE#close_modal – use browser.modal_dialog.close instead.
  • Remove IE#close_others – use browser.windows.reject(&:current?).each(&:close) instead.
  • Remove unused ie-new-process.rb.
  • Remove unused PageContainer module.
  • Remove unused PageContainer#check_for_http_error.
  • Remove unused PageContainer#enabled_popup – use browser.modal_dialog instead.

Watir-Classic 3.2.0 Released!

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When Water Drops Collide

Hello everyone!

I’m happy to announce that Watir-Classic 3.2.0 has been released!

Changes:

  • Add Element#browser method as an alias for Element#page_container.
  • Fix SelectList#{select|clear} to fire onChange events for element.
  • Watir::Browser is now a class instead of a module – beware if you’re monkey-patching.

As usual:

Watir-Classic 3.1.0 Released!

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Water Bomber

Hello everyone!

I’m happy to announce that another version of Watir-Classic has just been released – 3.1.0.

Changelog:

  • Add Browser#name, which returns :ie.
  • Add Dl#to_hash.
  • Add support for Alert API.
  • Add support for Browser#screenshot API.
  • Browser#execute_script returns now correct Ruby objects instead of String.
  • Browser#new accepts ignored parameter to make API more compatible with Watir-WebDriver.
  • Element#drag_and_drop methods work also with elements not in the viewport.
  • Fix TextField#set slow text entry.
  • Remove all show_* methods. Use element collection methods with #each instead. For example browser.links.each {|link| puts link.href}.
  • Remove already deprecated Watir::Waiter. Use Watir::Wait instead.
  • Remove already deprecated WinClicker.
  • Remove Browser#(javascript_)dialog. Use Browser#alert API instead.
  • Remove ScreenCapture module. Use Browser#screenshot API instead.
  • Remove Watir console. Use regular IRB or debugger instead.
  • Remove Watir.log method, WatirLogger and DefaultLogger classes. Use standard Ruby Logger instead.
  • Remove Watir.until_with_timeout. Use Watir::Wait.until instead.

Please try it out by executing:
gem install watir watir-classic

As usual:

Watir 3 Released!

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Hello everyone!

I’m happy to announce that Watir 3 has been finally released!
Its biggest goal is to conform even better with WatirSpec making it more
compliant with Watir-WebDriver.

Changelog is quite long, but reading it makes your life easier:
* Browser#status returns an empty string if status bar is disabled in IE9
* Browser#style fixed for IE9
* #execute_script evaluates JavaScript code inside of an anonymous function
- use “return” statement if value is needed by Ruby
* #execute_script returns nil instead of ‘undefined’
* drag and drop fixed for IE9
* Window#current? and Window#== are more robust
* all html elements are now supported (even html5 ones)
* CookieManager removed
* cookies API support added (

https://github.com/watir/watirspec/blob/master/cookies_spec.rb)

* drag and drop API support added (

https://github.com/watir/watirspec/blob/master/drag_and_drop_spec.rb)

* Element#(before|after)? removed
* Element#(before|after)_text removed
* Browser#cell(s) and Browser#row(s) removed
* Browser#Element camelCase methods removed, use under_score methods instead
* Browser#element(s) supports only general attributes like :id, :title,
:class_name, :text, :html and such
* Browser#modal_dialog improved
* Browser#send_keys and Element#send_keys have now same syntax as specified
in WatirSpec
* Element#style returns internal styles only for IE9, inline style will be
returned for IE8
* Table#each removed – use Table#(trs|rows).each instead
* Table#row(s) and Table#cell(s) added which ignore inner tables – use
#td/#tr for all.
* raise an Exception if more locators are specified with :xpath/:css
* searching by :xpath and :css code rewritten
* Browser#textarea(s) method for searching elements
* Element#focus works with IE9
* Element#focused? returns the state of focus on that element
* Element#to_subtype returns Element if non-supported tag found instead of
crashing
* searching by :class will match now partially like other tools behave
(e.g. jQuery)
* Button#text returns value if exists instead of text
* Browser#goto prepends url automatically with http:// if scheme is missing
* Browser#element(s)_by_(xpath/css) are now private methods – use
#element(:css => …) and #element(:xpath => …) instead
* Browser#label supports searching by :for attribute
* Browser#options method for searching elements
* Browser#body, #thead, #tfoot, #tbody, #frameset and #fieldset added
* Browser#window and Browser#windows added implementing window switching
API (https://github.com/jarib/watirspec/blob/master/window_switching_spec.rb
)
* Element#present? returns false if exception is thrown by #exists? or
#visible?
* Element#style returns CSS text instead of OLE object
* Element#text returns an empty string for non-visible elements
* Element#parent returns correct instance of Element class (e.g. Div
instead of Element)
* Element#focus focuses document before focusing on the element
* Element#right_click and Element#double_click added
* Element#to_subtype added which returns specific instance of
Watir::Element subclass
* Element#send_keys added
* Element#eql? as an alias for Element#== added
* Element#tag_name added
* ElementCollection#[] method supports negative indexes like regular Arrays
* ElementCollection#[] returns always an object, even if the index is out
of bounds
* FileField#set and Image#save uses correct Windows file path (e.g. convert
“\”-es into “/”-es)
* FileField#set raises Errno::ENOENT instead of WatirException if file
doesn’t exist
* FileField#value= as an alias for FileField#set added
* Font#color, #face and #size added
* Form#submit triggers onSubmit event and doesn’t submit the form if
event’s callback returns false
* Frame#execute_script added
* Image#file_size, #height and #width return integer instead of a string
* Image#save blocking fixed
* Meta#content and #http_equiv added
* Option code rewritten, causing changes in its API
* SelectList code rewritten, causing changes in its API
* SelectList#(selected_)options returns now Options collection instead of
an array of strings
* Table and its subelements code rewritten, causing changes in its API
* Table#strings and #hashes added
* TextField#label added
* searching elements will find only correct types – e.g. using Browser#div
returns only DIV element even if all other provided selectors match
* all selectors and tag of the element needs to match even if searching by
:id
* supporting html5 data-* attributes by using :data_* for locating and
#data_* for retrieving attribute values
* many other internal changes

Please try it out by executing:
gem install watir

watir-webdriver 0.5.2

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Shower Water Snake feeding :)

watir-webdriver 0.5.2 has been released.

Please note that watir-webdriver 0.5.0 brings some backwards incompatible changes:

Additionally, watir-webdriver 0.5.1 removes the following deprecated methods:

  • element_by_xpath replaced by .element(:xpath, '...')
  • elements_by_xpath replaced by .elements(:xpath, '...')

And deprecates the following methods:

Install it with

gem install watir-webdriver

As usual:

watir-webdriver 0.4.1

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~ Drip - "?" ~

watir-webdriver 0.4.1 has been released.

Major changes since the last release:

  • deprecate element{,s}_by_xpath

Install it with

gem install watir-webdriver

As usual:

Taza 0.9.1.1

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taza y bandeja

It is with great pleasure that we announce Taza 0.9.1.1 has been released. We hope you find this release stable, and that you like the small improvements we made. We added support to software we think are the way you should go when it comes to automating tests in Ruby. If you haven’t tried it, I encourage you to give it a shot. In this release, we added:

  • Ruby 1.9 support
  • Watir Webdriver support
  • RSpec 2.x support
  • Bundler support

Among the features we want to improve next are fixtures. I personally find them hard to maintain, and especially in Taza, a little too much on the magic side. We’ve stablished a roadmap regarding those:

  • Add support for factories i.e. FactoryGirl
  • Deprecate current fixtures in Taza
  • Come up with a simpler solution to fixtures

We welcome any suggestions to this roadmap, and anything you might find worth telling us.

Also, there is a nice tutorial about using it with rspec and cucumber.
Master branch uses watir. Watir-webdriver branch is there for people not using windows (but it runs on windows, too).

Just run bundle, then bundle exec cucumber and bundle exec rspec spec to run the tests.

There are some failing tests because Etsy changed their website. We haven’t updated the tutorial yet, but I guess fixing it might be a good way of learning it, if you’re interested.

Install it with:

gem install taza

As usual:

  • see build history at Travis CI (wait for a few seconds until older builds appear)
  • see all the changes at GitHub
  • updated API documentation is at RubyDoc.info

Sincerely,

Taza Contributors

Posted originally at watir-general by Pedro Nascimento. Published here with permission.

watir-webdriver 0.3.9

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Water Droplets

watir-webdriver 0.3.9 has been released.

This version has the following changes:

  • expose WebDriver’s new window resize/move APIs on Watir::Window,
  • pluralize the ‘details’ element as ‘detailses’. Closes #106.

Install it with

gem install watir-webdriver

As usual: