Arquillian Drone Extension 1.2.0.Final Released
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The Arquillian team is proud to announce the 1.2.0.Final release of the Arquillian Drone Extension component!
Arquillian Drone has reached 1.2.0.Final!
The focus of this release was to improve the usabillity for other Arquillian extension developers. That said, it still brings a lot of goodies and bugfixes from the previous versions. And the best part, it’s fully backward compatible with Arquillian Drone 1.1.1.Final.
So, update and enjoy new features! And don’t forget to check our updated documentation
What’s new in Drone since 1.1.1.Final?
- Browser capabilities shorthand
Configuration property
browserCapabilitiesis now replaced with the simplebrowserproperty. The original property still works, of course, but emits a warning when used.arquillian.xml<extension qualifier=“webdriver”>
<!— since now, you can simply write “browser” —>
<property name=“browser”>chrome</property>
</extension>
- PhantomJS support
Drone allows you to use PhantomJS as a browser. Moreover, it automatically fetches the binary needed for your platform. All you need to do is configure it:
arquillian.xml<extension qualifier=“webdriver”>
<property name=“browser”>phantomjs</property>
</extension>
- Selenium BOM
It is now much easier to override the Selenium version by importing a single BOM in the
<dependencyManagement>section, before arquillian-drone-bom. By default, Drone uses Selenium 2.35.0.pom.xml<depenencyManagement>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-bom</artifactId>
<version>${version.selenium}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</depenencyManagement>
- Time limited Drone creation
Drone now injects Selenium and WebDriver instances using a time limit to avoiding your tests from getting stuck. Also, Drone now creates the instances before they are used for the first time. So it’s no longer bound to the BeforeClass event.
The time limit is 60 seconds by default and can be modified in arquillian.xml globally for all supported Drones. Also, the limit is disabled if you setarquillian.debugproperty totrue.arquillian.xml<extension qualifier=“drone”>
<!— set this to zero if you want to disable timeout —>
<property name=“instantiationTimeoutInSeconds”>0</property>
</extension>
- Browser goodies
Added support for the
dimensionsproperty that allow you to resize the window. This is handy especially if the default viewport is small and some elements are not visible, like with PhantomJS. The Firefox configuration now accepts two new properties,firefox_profileandfirefoxUserPreferences. While the first one is not really new, it allows you to set a path to the Firefox profile template, the latter makes it possible to modify prefs.js for the created Firefox profile. And reusable browsers are now able to remove properties before each test class or method (depends on where you inject Drone) usingreuseCookiesproperty.arquillian.xml<extension qualifier=“webdriver”>
<property name=“firefox_profile”>/path/to/profile</property>
<property name=“firefoxUserPreferences”>/path/to/preferences/file</property>
<property name=“dimensions”>1680×1050</property>
<property name=“reuseCookies”>false</property>
</extension>
- New SPI
All extensions should now profit from a much richer event model. Additionally, Drone 1.2.0.Final brings the new concept of
DroneInstanceEnricher, which allows you to modify the Drone instance that Drone creates for you by any means. We use it for instance to automatically augment browser object to implement all the interfaces defined by its capabilities.
I’d like to thank everybody involved in this release. You guys make testing a breeze!
We hope that you’ll enjoy the improvements and look forward to hear your feedback in the community forums.
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Release details
| Component | Arquillian Drone Extension |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.2.0.Final view tag |
| Release date | 2013-10-07 |
| Released by | Karel Piwko |
| Compiled against |
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Published artifacts org.jboss.arquillian.extension
- org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-bom pom
- org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-selenium-depchain pom
- org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-webdriver-depchain pom
- org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-api jar javadoc pom
- org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-spi jar javadoc pom
- org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-configuration jar javadoc pom
- org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-impl jar javadoc pom
- org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-selenium-server jar javadoc pom
- org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-selenium jar javadoc pom
- org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-webdriver jar javadoc pom
Release notes and resolved issues 2
- Bug
Thanks to the following list of contributors: Karel Piwko
