CHANGELOG

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[4.0.12] - 09-AUG-2024

Changed

Updated appium_lib gem to version 15.2.2.
Updated appium_lib_core gem to version 9.2.1.

[4.0.11] - 28-JULY-2024

Changed

Updated selenium-webdriver gem to version 4.23.0.
Updated appium_lib gem to version 15.2.0.
Updated appium_lib_core gem to version 9.2.0.

[4.0.10] - 26-JUNE-2024

Added

Added MenuBar and AppMenu type AppUIElement to support MacOS application menubars and menus.

[4.0.9] - 23-JUNE-2024

Changed

Updated selenium-webdriver gem to version 4.22.0.

[4.0.8] - 03-JUNE-2024

Fixed

When testing using locally hosted iOS simulators or physical devices, and when not passing an options hash to specify desired capabilities, the AppiumConnect.initialize_appium method now correctly sets the following XCUItest capabilities:
- appium:webviewConnectTimeout capability is now correctly specified as an Integer
- appium:maxTypingFrequency set to 15 keystrokes per minute to resolve an issue where characters are intermittently dropped during text entry by AppUIElement.set, AppUIElement.send_keys, or BaseScreenSectionObject.populate_data_fields methods.
AppList.list_item attribute now defaults to XCUIElementTypeOtherclass for iOS/iPadOS platform and android.view.ViewGroup class for Android platform.

Changed

Updated appium_lib gem to version 15.1.0.
Updated appium_lib_core gem to version 9.1.1.
Updated selenium-webdriver gem to version 4.21.1.

[4.0.7] - 05-MAY-2024

Added

Added support for radio buttons via the AppRadio UI element class and the following methods:
- ScreenObject.radio
- ScreenObject.radios
- ScreenSection.radio
- ScreenSection.radios
ScreenObject.populate_data_fields and ScreenSection.populate_data_fields methods now support radio buttons.

Changed

Updated selenium-webdriver gem to version 4.20.1.
Updated appium_lib_core gem to version 8.0.2.

[4.0.6] - 02-MAY-2024

Fixed

ScreenSection.find_section is now able to find ScreenSection objects embedded within other ScreenSections.

[4.0.5] - 29-APR-2024

Fixed

ScreenSection.disabled? no longer returns wrong values.

[4.0.4] - 26-APR-2024

Changed

Updated selenium-webdriver gem to version 4.20.0.
Updated appium_lib gem to version 15.0.0.
Updated appium_lib_core gem to version 8.0.1.
No longer using deprecated Appium driver.keyboard_shown? method.

[4.0.3] - 05-APR-2024

Fixed

AppiumConnect.initialize_appium, AppiumServer.start, and AppiumServer.running? methods now support Appium version 2.x. Backward compatibility with Appium version 1.x is provided if APPIUM_SERVER_VERSION Environment Variable is set to 1.

[4.0.2] - 27-MAR-2024

Changed

Updated selenium-webdriver gem to version 4.19.0.

[4.0.0] - 26-MAR-2024

Fixed

DataPresenter.initialize no longer fails if data parameter is nil.
ScreenObject.load_screen now supports deeplinks on iOS physical devices.

Added

Added support for specifying and connecting to mobile devices and simulators on unsupported cloud hosting services using custom user-defined driver and capabilities.
Added the following new gesture methods:
- AppUIElement.scroll_into_view
- AppUIElement.drag_by
- AppUIElement.drag_and_drop
- AppUIElement.swipe_gesture
- ScreenObject.swipe_gesture
- ScreenSection.swipe_gesture
- ScreenSection.scroll_into_view
Added AppUIElement.count method.
Added AppAlert.buttons and AppAlert.get_caption methods.
Added the following biometrics methods:
- AppiumConnect.is_biometric_enrolled?
- AppiumConnect.set_biometric_enrollment
- AppiumConnect.biometric_match

Changed

AppiumConnect.initialize_appium method now accepts an optional options hash for specifying desired capabilities (using W3C protocol), driver, driver name, endpoint URL, global driver setting, and device type information.
Updated ScreenObject.verify_ui_states and ScreenSection.verify_ui_states methods to support automatically scrolling to offscreen UI elements.
All touch and gesture methods refactored to no longer depend on deprecated TouchAction and MultiTouchAction classes.
Ruby version 3.0.0 or greater is now required.
Updated appium_lib gem to version 14.0.0.
Updated selenium-webdriver gem to version 4.18.1.

Removed

Support for test data assets stored in Excel .xls has been removed because .xls files cannot be properly tracked and diffed by source control tools like git.
ExcelData and ExcelDataSource classes removed.
Removed dependence on spreadsheet gem.
Removed the following deprecated methods:
- AppiumConnect.switch_to_default_context
- AppiumConnect.reset_app
- AppiumConnect.launch_app
- AppiumConnect.close_app

[3.1.1] - 04-AUGUST-2022

Fixed

AppiumConnect.available_contexts now correctly returns a list of native app and web contexts when testing hybrid apps with WebViews on iOS simulators.

[3.1.0] - 02-AUGUST-2022

Added

The DRIVER Environment Variable is now used to specify the appium, browserstack, saucelabs, testingbot, or lambdatest driver.

[3.0.6] - 21-JUNE-2022

Fixed

AppButton.get_caption correctly returns captions of React Native buttons on Android platform where button caption object hierarchy is //android.widget.Button/android.widget.ViewGroup/android.widget.TextView.

[3.0.5] - 12-JUNE-2022

Fixed

Fixed gemspec to no longer include specs and Cucumber tests as part of deployment package for the gem.

[3.0.4] - 02-JUNE-2022

Added

Added AppUIElement.wait_until_enabled method.

[3.0.3] - 30-MAY-2022

Added

Added AppAlert.await_and_respond method.

[3.0.2] - 26-MAY-2022

Fixed

Added runtime dependencies curb and json to gemspec.
Fixed CHANGELOG url in gemspec.

[3.0.1] - 26-MAY-2022

Added

Added support for testing on cloud hosted iOS and Android simulators and real devices on BrowserStack, SauceLabs, and TestingBot services.
ScreenObject.load_page method adds support for using deep links to directly load screens/pages of native apps.
AppiumConnect.upload_app method adds support for uploading native apps to BrowserStack and TestingBot services prior to running tests.

Changed

Ruby version 2.7 or greater is required.