SeleniumLibrary is a web testing library for Robot Framework that utilizes the Selenium tool internally. SeleniumLibrary 4.0.0a1 is a new release with new plugin API and support for Selenium EventFiringWebdriver.There are also other enhancements and bug fixes.
All issues targeted for SeleniumLibrary v4.0.0 can be found from the issue tracker.
If you have pip installed, just run
pip install --pre --upgrade robotframework-seleniumlibrary
to install the latest available release or use
pip install robotframework-seleniumlibrary==4.0.0a1
to install exactly this version. Alternatively you can download the source distribution from PyPI and install it manually.
SeleniumLibrary 4.0.0a1 was released on Thursday April 18, 2019. SeleniumLibrary supports Python 2.7 and 3.4+, Selenium 3.8.2 and Robot Framework 3.0.4 and 3.1.1.
- Most important enhancements
- Backwards incompatible changes
- Remove deprecated attributes of unofficial public API (#1346, alpha 1)
- Drop Robot Framework 2.9 support in SeleniumLibrary. (#1304, alpha 1)
- Raise minimum supported Selenium version to 3.8.1 (#1305, alpha 1)
- Remove keywords which where officially deprecated in previos releases. (#1274, alpha 1)
- Update SeleniumLibrary is_truthy and is_falsy to follow Robot Framework 3.1 (#1308, alpha 1)
- Deprecated features
- Acknowledgements
- Full list of fixes and enhancements
SeleniumLibrary by creating plugin API. (#1292, alpha 1)
SeleniumLibrary 4.0 introduces a plugin API, which allows adding or modifying keywords directly in to the SeleniumLibrary. It also offers more wider access to the SeleniumLibrary internal methods.
More details can be found from the plugin API documentation.
Selenium EventFiringWebdriver (#1303, alpha 1)
SeleniumLibrary offers support for Selenium EventFiringWebdriver allowing users to import the EventFiringWebdriver class in to the SeleniumLibrary. More details can be found from the Selenium and SeleniumLibrary EventFiringWebdriver documentation
Remove deprecated attributes of unofficial public API (#1346, alpha 1)
The Selenium2Library 1.8 and older did not have public API, but it did have some methods which could be considered as part of a unofficial API. The SeleniumLibrary 3.0 created new public API and in the same time tried to keep as much as possible of the unofficial API in place. In same time with 3.0 release the old API was deprecated. The SeleniumLibrary 4.0 removes the unofficial and deprecated API.
Drop Robot Framework 2.9 support in SeleniumLibrary. (#1304, alpha 1)
SeleniumLibrary does not anymore support Robot Framework 2.9 or older releases. Users are encouraged to migrate Robot Framework 3.0 or 3.1.
Raise minimum supported Selenium version to 3.8.1 (#1305, alpha 1)
Minimum supported Selenium version has been raised to 3.8.1.
Remove keywords which where officially deprecated in previos releases. (#1274, alpha 1)
SeleniumLibrary has removed keyword which where loudly deprecated in the previous releases. User are encouraged to use the new keywords.
Update SeleniumLibrary is_truthy and is_falsy to follow Robot Framework 3.1 (#1308, alpha 1)
In previous SeleniumLibrary releases, string 0 was considered as true when evaluating boolean type. This is now changed and string 0 is considered as false.
Deprecate loudly all silently deprecated keywords (#1273, alpha 1)
All keywords which where silently deprecated in the previous release, will now cause a deprecated warning.
Deprecate sizzle selector strategy (#1336, alpha 1)
Sizzle selector is deprecated.
Also there has been many contributions from the community. Special thanks to all that provided an contribution to the project. Here is a list of contributions which have made pull request in to this release.
I would like to remind that providing code or updating documentation is not the only way to contribute. There has been lot of issues raised in the project issue tracker and feedback has been provided in the user group and in slack. I am grateful from all the feedback.
Wait For Location To Contain (#1108, alpha 1)
Many thanks to acaovilla who provided Wait Until Location Contains keyword in the RoboCon sprints.
Add Wait Until Location Is keyword (#1297, alpha 1)
Many thanks to acaovilla who provided Wait Until Location Is keyword. Sometime after the RoboCon.
Allow setting and getting window.innerWidth and window.innerHeight CSS properties (#1363, alpha 1)
Many thanks to ciccioman3, who enhanced the Set Window Size and Get Window Size keywords to support window.innerWidth and window.innerHeight css attributes.
Update readme to mention https://github.com/Omenia/webdrivermanager (#1301, alpha 1)
Many thanks to rasjani, who updated documentation to mention scripted browser driver installation.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1292 | enhancement | critical | Allow extending SeleniumLibrary by creating plugin API. | alpha 1 |
| #1303 | enhancement | critical | Add support event_firing_webdriver | alpha 1 |
| #1304 | enhancement | critical | Drop Robot Framework 2.9 support in SeleniumLibrary. | alpha 1 |
| #1305 | enhancement | critical | Raise minimum supported Selenium version to 3.8.1 | alpha 1 |
| #1284 | bug | medium | Default Capabilities not set correctly if remote_url and desired_capabilities are given | alpha 1 |
| #1307 | bug | medium | Get Cookies keyword will fail if the Selenium get_cookie method return value contains more keys than: name, value, path, domain, secure, httpOnly and expiry | alpha 1 |
| #1108 | enhancement | medium | Propose new keyword: Wait For Location To Contain | alpha 1 |
| #1273 | enhancement | medium | Deprecate loudly all silently deprecated keywords | alpha 1 |
| #1274 | enhancement | medium | Remove keywords which where officially deprecated in previos releases. | alpha 1 |
| #1297 | enhancement | medium | Add Wait Until Location Is keyword | alpha 1 |
| #1308 | enhancement | medium | Update SeleniumLibrary is_truthy and is_falsy to follow Robot Framework 3.1 | alpha 1 |
| #1330 | enhancement | medium | Input Text and Input Password keywords should be configurable if they clear the input element before keywords types the text in | alpha 1 |
| #1336 | enhancement | medium | Deprecate sizzle selector strategy | alpha 1 |
| #1346 | enhancement | medium | Remove deprecated attributes of public API | alpha 1 |
| #1363 | enhancement | medium | Allow setting and getting window.innerWidth and window.innerHeight CSS properties | alpha 1 |
| #449 | bug | low | Update documentation on Choose File to show that it supports remote uploading | alpha 1 |
| #1279 | enhancement | low | Webdriver tools browser_alias may not be needed | alpha 1 |
| #1301 | enhancement | low | Update readme to mention https://github.com/Omenia/webdrivermanager | alpha 1 |
Altogether 18 issues. View on the issue tracker.