robotframework-browser

This release is a backwards incompatible one as it removes previously deprecated keywords: get_textfield_value, wait_for_download and upload_file.

Library documentation is also improved on many cases by adding examples and generally writing more explanations.

Browser is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Playwright tool internally. Browser library 6.0.0 is a new release with keyword to get urls in a page enhancements and bug fixes to the keyword assertions.

Browser library 6.0.0 was released on Tuesday July 20, 2021. Browser supports Python 3.7+, Node 12/14 LTS and Robot Framework 4.0+. Library was tested with Playwright 1.12.3

Browser is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Playwright tool internally. Browser library 5.2.0 is a new release with support saving storage state to disk and using state when opening context. Also there are few bug fixes.

Browser library 5.2.0 was released on Tuesday July 13, 2021. Browser supports Python 3.7+, Node 12/14 LTS and Robot Framework 3.2+.

Browser is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Playwright_ tool internally. Browser library 5.1.2 is a new release with bug fixes to Wait For Element State keyword custom error message.

Browser library 5.1.2 was released on Tuesday June 29, 2021. Browser supports Python 3.7+, Node 12/14 LTS and Robot Framework 3.2+.

Browser is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Playwright tool internally. Browser library 5.1.1 is a new release with a bug fix for "rfbrowser show-trace" command in Windows OS. Browser library 5.1.1 was released on Saturday June 19, 2021. Browser supports Python 3.7+, Robot Framework 3.2+ and Node 12 and 14.

Browser is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Playwright tool internally. Browser library 5.1.0 is a new release with support Playwright traces and possibility to record locators and bug fixes. Browser library 5.1.0 was released on Wednesday June 16, 2021. Browser supports Python 3.7+, and Robot Framework 3.2+.

Browser is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Playwright tool internally. Browser library 5.0.1 is a new release with bug fixes. This release fixes when using library from Python and when passing httpCredentials as secret in New Context keyword.

Browser library 5.0.1 was released on Friday June 4, 2021. Browser supports Python >=3.7, and Robot Framework >=3.2.

Browser is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Playwright tool internally. Browser library 5.0.0 is a new release with masking password username and password in the New Context keyword and Wait For Alert keyword to get alert text enhancements.

Improving Get Text functioning with Salesforce Lightning components. There were detected problems with web components - this release focuses on fixing them.

Browser is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Playwright_ tool internally. Browser library 4.5.0 is a new release with support Playwright 1.11.0 and prevents using RF 4.0.2 with Browser library.

Browser library 4.5.0 was released on Wednesday May 12, 2021. Browser supports Python 3.7+, Robot Framework 3.2+ and Node LTS 12 and 14. Expect RF 4.0.2 is not supported.

Browser library 4.4.0 is a new release with several bug fixes and dependency updates. Browser library 4.4.0 was released on Monday May 10, 2021. Browser supports Python 3.7+, Robot Framework 3.2+ and Node LTS 12 and 14.

Browser is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilises the Playwright tool internally. Browser library 4.3.0 is a new release with screenshot supporting quality attributes enhancements. Browser library 4.3.0 was released on Friday April 9, 2021. Browser supports Python 3.7+, Robot Framework 3.2+ and Node LTS 12 and 14.

Browser is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Playwright tool internally. Browser library 4.2.0 is a new release with HAR record support and record + analyze browser console logs. Also there fixes to documentation enhancements and capturing screenshot in error situation. Browser library 4.2.0 was released on Monday March 29, 2021. Browser supports Python 3.7+, and Robot Framework 3.2+ and NodeJS 12 and 14 LTS versions.

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Browser is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Playwright_ tool internally. Browser library 4.1.0 is a new release with fixing file upload and providing HAR file support. Also this release contains PlayWright 1.10.0. There is also refactoring in the node side, but that should not affect users.

Browser library 4.1.0 was released on Thursday March 25, 2021. Browser supports Python 3.7+, Robot Framework >=3.2+ and Node 12 and 14 LTS versions.

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text to txt. Playwright 1.9.2

• Beta version of presenter mode
• Playwright 1.8.1 (iFrame, reload and isVisible bugfixes) https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/releases/tag/v1.8.1

This release fixes a bug with unhandled alerts hanging the library, and adds support for another string input format for Add Cookie timestamp.

Improved our coverage for node 14 in CI.

More details in release notes

This release updates playwright to 1.8.0 and it should resolve few issue that we have open.

More details in release notes

• Fix documentation links pointing towards playwright upstream

• Wait For Download returns dictionary containing suggestedFilename and saveAs keys.
• Started deprecating Wait For Download in favor of Promise To Wait For Download keyword that makes promisification mandatory for download operation.

See full release notes https://github.com/MarketSquare/robotframework-browser/blob/master/docs/releasenotes/Browser-3.0.0.rst

• Optional message parameter for all keywords using assertion engine
• New format for passing recordVideo arguments to New Context

See full release notes https://github.com/MarketSquare/robotframework-browser/blob/master/docs/releasenotes/Browser-2.5.0.rst

2.4.1 had a mistake in pypi deployment and was yanked.

Browser 2.4.2 fixes macOS 11.1 installation by depending on a newer playwright version.

See full release notes: https://github.com/MarketSquare/robotframework-browser/blob/master/docs/releasenotes/Browser-2.4.1.rst

Connect To Browser keyword, JS keyword improvements, screenshot and video storage in subfolder by default. https://github.com/MarketSquare/robotframework-browser/blob/master/docs/releasenotes/Browser-2.4.0.rst

• rfbrowser init permission and PATH issue improvements
• Dependency bumps to let windows users install the package again.
• Data type docs improvements

https://github.com/MarketSquare/robotframework-browser/blob/master/docs/releasenotes/Browser-2.3.4.rst

Fix segfault bug with mismatching grpcio, grpcio-tools and protobuf versions by locking down their versions.

This release adds the possibility to extend Browser library with a JavaScript module.

Bugfixes, docs improvements, newer underlying Playwright version and option to not install browsers when running rfbrowser init

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Browser is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Playwright tool internally. Browser library 2.1.0 is a new release with video support and prevents secrets for leaking in Robot Framework logs. There are also several fixes in the release. Browser library 2.1.0 was released on Monday November 9, 2020. Browser supports Python >=3.7, and Robot Framework >=3.2.

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Browser is a web testing library for `Robot Framework that utilizes the Playwright tool internally. Browser library 2.0.0 is a new release with fixed installation problems in Windows OS by using grpc-js instead of grpc. This release also fixes logic in internal node side implementation.

Browser library 2.0.0 was released on Thursday October 29, 2020. Browser supports Python >=3.7, and Robot Framework >=3.2.

See release notes for full details

Full release notes available at https://github.com/MarketSquare/robotframework-browser/blob/master/docs/releasenotes/Browser-1.7.0.rst

Release with bug fixes and improvements

#435 When creating new page, library does not obey the timeout value. Instead it will timeout in 10seconds. #230 Wait for response matchers not working #442 Docs for "Wait For Request/Response" have wrong timeout unit #439 Increase grpc and grpc-tools to 1.33.1 #403 Improve exception raised by library when trying to click element which can not be clicked. #448 Remove execution-time-log #453 Add timeout to Go To keyword

Full release notes available at https://github.com/MarketSquare/robotframework-browser/blob/master/docs/releasenotes/Browser-1.6.0.rst

Bugfixes: - Improve exception raised by library when trying to click element which can not be clicked. - Errors in end_test and end_suite caused by auto closing - Wait for request and response matchers (regexp at least) do not seem to work - use RF to convert timeout to correct value

Deprecations:

• Click with Options is now superceded by Click in all use cases

New keywords: - Update geolocation keyword

Browser library 1.3.0

Other improvements:

• Add option to take full page screenshots with Take Screenshot
• Show screenshots inlined in log files
• Miscallenous documentation fixes, thanks to Ed Manlove

Depend on latest Playwright 1.4.0 and Robot Framework 3.2.2

This hotfix release fixes a problem with when selecting the page with NEW it did point to a wrong page. This is now fixed.

New keywords:

• Reload

Other changes:

• Close Browser doesn't fail when there's no open browser
• Close Context doesn't fail when there's no open context
• Close Page doesn't fail when there's no open page
• Assertion operator (and closure) support on Get Browser Catalog
• Documentation proofreading and typo fixes, thanks to @adrianyorke

Going forward

• We will produce definitive lists of BREAKING changes in new releases
• Old version list and documentations will be hosted at https://marketsquare.github.io/robotframework-browser/

New keywords:

• Hover
• Register keyword to run on failure
• Renamed Get Attribute to Get Property
• Renamed Handle Alert to Handle Future Dialogs

Other improvements

• Assertion retry behaviour (can be disabled at library import with a flag)
• Indexes are now string based UUID's and always unique between browsers / contexts / pages

New Keywords: None Other improvements:

• Fixed rfbrowser init not finding NPM on windows
• Improved dev environment setup with python bootstrap.py

No new keywords

Other improvements:

• Switch Page, Switch Context, Close Page, Close Context and Close Browser now support arguments for specifying which open object to do the keyword in.
• Fixed bugs with Click With Options not getting passed correctly
• We now support python 3.7

New Keywords:

• Download

Other improvements:

• Released docker image
• Tabs opened by pages in itself behave better with browser catalog and indexes
  • Opening PDFs had some bugs that have been fixed and are now tested in our suite
• Windows development should work better, build tool changed from GNU make to Invoke
• Documentation improvements
• Assertions now poll until timeout has been reached (there's an option to disable this at library import)

New Keywords:

• VirtualMouse keywords Mouse Move and Mouse Button to control virtual mouse on page
• VirtualKeyboard keywords Keyboard Input and Keyboard Key to manually set keyboard keys down / up for the whole page, and input into currently active element on page without a selector. Corresponds to Playwrights keyboard class
• Handle Alert
• Set Offline to set network to offline / online
• Wait Until Network Is Idle to wait for network idleness after changing pages

Other improvements:

• Thanks to upstream playwright 1.3.0 features, in headed mode active page is visually active
• Rolling index numbers on screenshots now to not overwrite old screenshots (fixed #175)
• Improved error at library import if rfbrowser init has not been run
• Logging improvements by @aaltat
• Keyword documentation by Imbus sponsored work done by @Finalrykku

New keywords:

• Cookies
  • Get Cookies, Add Cookie, Delete All Cookies
• Wait For Download
• Upload File
• Get BoundingBox to get element coordinates and size Improvements:
• Autoclosing of contexts / pages / browsers in the context they are opened
  • A toggle
  • Page and Context id's are stable when pages and contexts get closed
• More examples in README

Reverted changes:

• rfbrowser init is back because automatically setting up node dependencies at import time had many problems.

New keywords:

• Get Elements gets list of elements matching selector and returns them as a list of elementhandle UUIDs. These can be used for iteration with other keywords.

Other enchancements:

• Wait For Function and Execute JavaScript now accept our playwright selectors and our elementhandles as arguments to pass to the function executed on browser page. See examples
• No longer need to separately run rfbrowser init. Dependencies are downloaded at library import if they don't exist on file system yet
• Bugfix and test improvement for Highlight Elements
• Functionality that was in rfbrowser init is now automatically done at library import time.

New keywords:

• Wait For Function (polls for a javascript function or expression to return a true value)
• Wait For Request and Wait For Response

New keywords:

• http
  • executes fetch with page.evaluate
  • support all common HTTP methods, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE and HEAD
  • if request body can be converted to JSON, it will automatically add content-type header
  • if response body can be converted to JSON, it will be returned as a Python dict.
• Get Style (supports assertions)
• Get Element (returns an element handle that can be used as a selector)

Other improvements:

• Renamed Create _ keywords to New _
• Improved python use (added script to generate static type stubs

New keywords:

• Set Viewport Size and Get Viewport Size
• Switch Browser, Switch Context, renamed Switch Active Page to Switch Page
• Get Browser Catalog to list all open browsers, contexts and pages
• Close All Browsers

Improvements:

• Create Browser and Create Context have options in type signature and parse them correctly
  • We're looking into hiding optional parameters from LSP autocompletion but it might take some time
• Better activation of new browsers / contexts pages when using Switch Browser / Switch Context
• More stable Browser aliases when closing Browsers

Fixed invalid parameters for opening the browser.