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Graphene 2.0.0.Alpha4 Released

Posted by Lukas Fryc on Apr 24, 2013
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The Arquillian team is proud to announce the 2.0.0.Alpha4 release of the Graphene component!

As we are on the way to a first Beta release, we identified a need for sharing some of the recent Graphene improvements:

Highlighted Changes

Guard Improvements and Fixes

Request Guards were polished, extended and hardened. (read more)

Creating Page Fragments Programatically

Page Fragments can now be instantiated not only using dependency injection, but also programatically. (read more)

PhantomJS Support

You can now fully leverage awesomness of headless testing with PhantomJS.

Guarding Programatically Retrieved Elements

Elements retrieved programatically using WebElement#findElement(...) or WebElement#findElements(...) are now guarded against StaleElementReferenceException.

Automatic Inference of Locators

You no longer need to define a locator in simple forms – you can leverage their automatic inference from a injection point name. (read more)

Dependency Injection of SessionStorage and LocalStorage

These resources are now exposed directly via @ArquillianResource.

Dependency Injection of Selenium Resource Parametrized by WebElement

Selenium resources which takes WebElement as an argument in a constructor (e.g. Select) can be injected using FindBy.

Support for FindBys and FindBy(How, String)
 
Improved Integration with Drone

Drone 1.2.0.Alpha2’s new Enhancer API allow us to integrate with Drone seamlessly.

Deprecations

Deprecation of Old Variant of Waiting Fluent API

Graphene.element(...) and Graphene.attribute(...) are now deprecated and they will be removed in an upcoming releases.

Deprecated guardXhr replaced by guardAjax

Not all of us are familiar with abbreviation XHR (XMLHttpRequest). In order to make the API more clear for most of Graphene users, we have deprecated guardXhr and replaced it with guardAjax. guardXhr will be removed in upcoming releases.

Guard Improvements and Fixes

waitForHttp

When an Ajax request is followed by a relocation (HTTP request), guardXhr or guardHttp can’t deterministically wait for an end of a request – in these situations you can use waitForHttp instead.

Testing delayed requests

Guards now waits for a given time interval for a request to start and once the request is started, they wait the another interval for the request to finish.

Bug Fixes

Guards had problems on Android with deterministic waiting for HTTP requests.

Creating Page Fragments Programatically

Till this release, the only option to create a page fragment was injecting it:

@FindBy(...)
MyComponent component;

With Alpha4 we have added the possibility to create a page fragment programatically:

public <T> T getContent(Class<T> clazz) {
    return PageFragmentEnricher.createPageFragment(clazz, root);
}
@Test
public void testTabPanelSwitching() {
    Panel tab3 = tabPanel.switchTo(2);
    ContentOfTab content = tab3.getContent(ContentOfTab.class);
    assertEquals("The tab panel was not switched to third tab correctly!", "Content of the tab 3", content.text.getText());
    
    Panel tab1 = tabPanel.switchTo(0);
    content = tab1.getContent(ContentOfTab.class);
    assertEquals("The tab panel was not switched to first tab correctly!", "Content of the tab 1", content.text.getText());
}

You can find reference usage in this functional test together with an implementation of #getContent(Class<T>).

Automatic Inference of Locators

How many times you have written:

// look for input with a name 'firstname'
@FindBy(name = "firstname")
private WebElement firstname;

You can now simplify your tests to just

@FindBy
private WebElement firstname;

Graphene will automatically use the strategy How.ID_OR_NAME to locate the element by its ID or name.

Since this mechanism uses the strategy pattern, you can overwrite the default strategy for your test suite and therefore find elements by e.g. their class names or even JSF component IDs.

Roadmap

This release is a maintanance release on the way to Beta1.

What is Arquillian?

Arquillian is open source software that empowers you to test JVM-based applications more effectively. Created to defend the software galaxy from bugs, Arquillian brings your test to the runtime so you can focus on testing your application's behavior rather than managing the runtime. Using Arquillian, you can develop a comprehensive suite of tests from the convenience of your IDE and run them in any IDE, build tool or continuous integration environment.

Release details

Component Graphene
Version 2.0.0.Alpha4 view tag
Release date 2013-04-12
Released by Lukas Fryc
Compiled against

Published artifacts org.jboss.arquillian.graphene

  • org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-parent pom
  • org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-selenium-parent pom
  • org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-selenium-api jar javadoc pom
  • org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-selenium-impl jar javadoc pom
  • org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-selenium-drone jar javadoc pom
  • org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-selenium pom
  • org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-webdriver-parent pom
  • org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-webdriver-impl jar javadoc pom
  • org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-webdriver pom
  • org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-webdriver-spi jar javadoc pom
  • org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » arquillian-graphene pom
  • org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-component-api jar javadoc pom

Release notes and resolved issues 20

Q1/13: PhantomJS

Enhancement
  • ARQGRA-199 - Provide a way to create Page Fragments dynamically
  • ARQGRA-235 - Automatically infer ID locator from field name annotated just by @FindBy
  • ARQGRA-250 - Shortcut for waiting on element's attribute value
Feature Request
  • ARQGRA-220 - Locating elements with @FindBy(how = How.ID, using = "foobar") not working
  • ARQGRA-247 - Add support for enriching @FindBys annotations
  • ARQGRA-254 - Expose LocalStorage and SessionStorage enrichments directly
  • ARQGRA-258 - Provide injecting classes requiring WebElement in their constructors via @FindBy annotation
  • ARQGRA-259 - Provide timeout setting in fluent API
  • ARQGRA-273 - Intercept WebDriver to return proxies in findElement()/findElements() methods
  • ARQGRA-288 - Remove need for Drone factory wrappers
Bug
  • ARQGRA-257 - Guards are not working with AndroidDriver
  • ARQGRA-262 - Element click with HTTP guard causes WebDriverException: ReferenceError: Graphene is not defined
  • ARQGRA-266 - Waiting for presence of element defined by jQuery selector sometimes causes "IllegalStateException: JQueryPageExtension can't be installed"
  • ARQGRA-272 - Introduced waitForHttp (guardXhr does not work for redirected pages)
  • ARQGRA-289 - JavaScript interfaces fails on Chrome and PhantomJS
  • ARQGRA-290 - testAttributeIsPresent fails on Chrome and PhantomJS
Story
  • ARQGRA-286 - Support PhantomJSDriver in Graphene
Task
  • ARQGRA-168 - Create QUnit tests for Graphene.Page.RequestGuard.js
  • ARQGRA-284 - Rename guardXhr to guardAjax
  • ARQGRA-287 - Deprecate Graphene.element and attribute methods

Thanks to the following list of contributors: Jan PapouĊĦek, Lukas Fryc, Juraj Huska, Jiri Stefek, Andreas Vallen

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