Old Release Notes - HelioGuilherme66/RIDE GitHub Wiki
Here are release notes for releases made from the old Google Code project
- RIDE 0.39 has a number of highlights, which include:
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- Possibility to rename and delete test case files
- Possibility to rename and delete resource files, and also modify corresponding import settings
- Changing resource file format automatically updates corresponding import settings
- All files importing given resource file can be searched
- PYTHONPATH can be configured via settings file
- A number of OSX compatibility issues are fixed
Big thanks to John Gluck for sending patches to fix all the now closed OSX issues.
RIDE 0.39 was released on Tuesday, 27th of September.
Full list of resolved issues:
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 146 | Defect | High | Keyword completion and documentation popups don't work on OSX |
| Issue 856 | Enhancement | High | Setting PYTHONPATH in RIDE |
| Issue 265 | Enhancement | Medium | Changing resource file format should also update resource imports |
| Issue 298 | Enhancement | Medium | Possibility to rename test case files |
| Issue 299 | Enhancement | Medium | Possibility to delete test case files |
| Issue 618 | Enhancement | Medium | I want to search where my Resources are used |
| Issue 644 | Enhancement | Medium | Possibility to rename resource files |
| Issue 855 | Enhancement | Medium | Cases In Run tab should not be expanded as default |
| Issue 863 | Enhancement | Medium | Possibility to delete resource files |
| Issue 165 | Defect | Medium | The confirm exit -dialog is not closed when RIDE exists on OSX |
| Issue 444 | Defect | Medium | Manage Run Configuration screen can not be closed or dismissed on OSX |
| Issue 503 | Defect | Medium | Events are launched several times on new Macs |
| Issue 858 | Defect | Medium | Documentation popup appears when pointer is outside RIDE window |
| Issue 502 | Documentation | Medium | Document that on 64bit OSX, RIDE will not start unless 32bit Python is used |
Altogether 14 issues.
This release focuses on improving content assistant. Now content assistant will also show local variables and long names of keywords. Also some defects have been fixed and some performance optimizations have been made.
RIDE 0.38 was released on Thursday, 1st of September.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 737 | Defect | High | Delete rows causes traceback |
| Issue 851 | Defect | High | Content Assitant: Perfomance issues when huge number of variables |
| Issue 84 | Enhancement | High | Keyword completion should support long names |
| Issue 849 | Enhancement | High | Program icon |
| Issue 641 | Defect | Medium | Arrowing through keyword completion available makes annoying system beep |
| Issue 764 | Defect | Medium | Model is broken after 2 for-loop move operation |
| Issue 832 | Defect | Medium | Rename Keyword doesn't rename from GWT steps |
| Issue 848 | Enhancement | Medium | Local variables to suggestions |
Altogether 8 issues.
The one big enhancement in RIDE 0.37 is that resource files are shown in the same hierarchy as the test suites. Only resource files whose path is outside of the suite hierarchy are shown in a separate 'External Resource' node. In addition, the two bugs listed below were fixed.
RIDE 0.37 was released on Thursday, 18th of August.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 476 | Enhancement | High | Resources in the RIDE tree should be grouped or hierarchical |
| Issue 717 | Defect | Medium | When I use RIDE to open __init.html, it always report "invalid syntax" error |
| Issue 823 | Defect | Medium | Starting RIDE fails with bad error message when settings.cfg is read-only |
Altogether 3 issues.
RIDE 0.36 adds support for the keyword teardown introduced in Robot Framework 2.6. Installation has been made easier by bundling Robot Framework with RIDE and by adding more descriptive error messages from missing wxPython installation. Included are also a few other minor bug fixes and enhancements. It was released on 8th of August 2011.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 831 | Enhancement | Critical | Support for RF 2.6 Keyword Teardown |
| Issue 792 | Defect | High | Renaming from grid fails when differing case |
| Issue 729 | Enhancement | High | Bundle Robot Framework with RIDE to ease handling dependencies |
| Issue 789 | Defect | Medium | Variable rename when new normalized name is the same as the original fails |
| Issue 790 | Defect | Medium | Add keyword from tree when suite is collapsed produces traceback |
| Issue 791 | Defect | Medium | Cell values, keyword names, and test names with two spaces break in txt format |
| Issue 797 | Defect | Medium | Undoing while editing grid undoes operations before edit |
| Issue 813 | Defect | Medium | RIDE run tab doesn't respect the --outputdir option. |
| Issue 815 | Defect | Medium | resources listed twice due to case sensitive path |
| Issue 817 | Defect | Medium | Test case copied with RIDE loses default tags |
| Issue 818 | Defect | Medium | Problem while renaming(Adding or deleting underscore in test case name) |
| Issue 826 | Defect | Medium | Test runner plugin doesn't handler non-ASCII characters in test case names |
| Issue 478 | Enhancement | Medium | RIDE should allow inserting rows instead of overwriting existing ones when doing the paste action. |
| Issue 796 | Enhancement | Medium | Create keyword should ignore BDD prefixes |
| Issue 834 | Enhancement | Medium | A human readable error message when wx is not installed |
| Issue 785 | Enhancement | Low | Show the filename in window title |
| Issue 835 | Enhancement | Low | Leaving setting editor empty should remove the setting instead of complaining about empty value |
| Issue 836 | Enhancement | Low | Selecting item from tree should change to edit tab unless is has some effect in the current tab |
| Issue 838 | Enhancement | Low | Keyboard shortcuts for New Test Case, Keyword, Copy, Insert/Delete Row, Add Scalar and List Variable |
Altogether 19 issues.
RIDE 0.35 is mainly a bug fix release. It was released on 13th of April 2011.
Unfortunately RIDE 0.35 had a critical bug related to editing variables (issue 793). As a result RIDE 0.35.1 fixing this bug was released on 14th of April.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 787 | Defect | High | Multiple tags copy |
| Issue 723 | Defect | Medium | Ampersands (&) are not shown in wx.StaticText components |
| Issue 765 | Defect | Medium | Cancel of saving directory file reports directory as saved |
| Issue 771 | Defect | Medium | Undo does not work after saving if data contains empty lines |
| Issue 773 | Defect | Medium | Keyword completion: Global variable shadows keyword argument |
| Issue 775 | Defect | Medium | Format change does not change source in file editor |
| Issue 782 | Defect | Medium | Comment and Uncomment from row header's context menu does not work on Linux |
| Issue 783 | Defect | Medium | AttributeError: 'MacRidePopupWindow' object has no attribute 'screen_position' |
| Issue 777 | Enhancement | Medium | Possibility to edit variable names from tree |
| Issue 784 | Enhancement | Medium | When editing import, variable or metadata, selection is lost |
| Issue 611 | Defect | Low | Search plug-in (F3) does not immediately enable the "Search" button |
| Issue 686 | Defect | Low | Last item cannot be removed from Manage Run Configurations |
| Issue 696 | Defect | Low | End of suite's title and/or source are not visible |
| Issue 774 | Defect | Low | Search keyword dialog goes behind RIDE main window when find usages button is pressed |
| Issue 788 | Defect | Low | Syntax highlight does not recognize keywords with underscores in test data |
Altogether 15 issues.
This release mainly fixes bugs and the only notable enhancements are related to the test runner, for example the possibility to add arguments to test runner plugin (issue 725). We have also focused on usability bug fixes and improvements. Especially noteworthy are fixes related to grid editing like issue 734 and issue 762.
RIDE 0.34 was released on Thursday 31th of March 2011.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 733 | Defect | High | Find Usages highlighting failure |
| Issue 734 | Defect | High | Row controls do not work from grid editor |
| Issue 746 | Defect | High | Settings button messes with the GUI layout and display |
| Issue 753 | Defect | High | Does not find library defined as relative path |
| Issue 725 | Enhancement | High | Possibility to add arguments to Test Runner plugin |
| Issue 728 | Enhancement | High | Remember whether settings are open or hidden |
| Issue 768 | Enhancement | High | Report/log links from run plugin do not work when generating them is disabled during execution and rebot is used to generate them |
| Issue 199 | Defect | Medium | Delete button does not work in table cells |
| Issue 655 | Defect | Medium | moving rows up and down beyond screen scroll limit does not work |
| Issue 730 | Defect | Medium | New tag editing feature doesn't work well on MacOSX |
| Issue 732 | Defect | Medium | Ride 0.33 variable move-up move-down will lose focus |
| Issue 740 | Defect | Medium | Popup shown over setup/teardown setting is not always closed |
| Issue 741 | Defect | Medium | Focus follows mouse pointer in settings |
| Issue 745 | Defect | Medium | Test Runner plugin settings are shared between execution profiles |
| Issue 752 | Defect | Medium | Copying from detached popup is not always possible |
| Issue 756 | Defect | Medium | Tree hangs after keyword renaming |
| Issue 760 | Defect | Medium | Copy Keyword dialog incorrectly shows that arguments can be changed |
| Issue 762 | Defect | Medium | Visible row and cell selection is inconsistent with actual internal selection. |
| Issue 767 | Defect | Medium | Pasting to tag pastes also to grid |
| Issue 769 | Defect | Medium | Insert rows when multiple rows are selected adds rows between selected rows |
| Issue 770 | Defect | Medium | Pasting non-ASCII characters works only if system encoding is UTF-8 (i.e. not on Windows) |
| Issue 738 | Enhancement | Medium | Find Usages should go first through the current file |
| Issue 758 | Enhancement | Medium | Right click should select row/cell if it is not already selected |
| Issue 660 | Defect | Low | Clicking tree when release notes is shown causes traceback |
| Issue 763 | Defect | Low | Preview print does not support unicode |
| Issue 766 | Defect | Low | Preview produces stack trace when no data is open |
| Issue 772 | Defect | Low | Navigating to keywords and testcases in html preview is broken |
Altogether 27 issues.
The most notable features of RIDE 0.33 are the ability to see all tags of a test case (issue 510) and edit those in place (issue 695). Also ability to use RIDE on small screen was improved by hiding settings and adding possibility to configure list editors size through settings file (issue 669). Killed bugs and other enhancements are listed below.
RIDE 0.33 was released on Tuesday 8th of March 2011.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 692 | Defect | High | Open Directory dialog losts focus on Windows |
| Issue 705 | Defect | High | test runner plugin fails on windows if cwd is root (C:, D:, etc) |
| Issue 718 | Defect | High | Added keyword is not shown immediately |
| Issue 510 | Enhancement | High | Show all tags of a test case |
| Issue 669 | Defect | Medium | Ride cannot be used on small screen |
| Issue 690 | Defect | Medium | Tooltip shown above other applications |
| Issue 698 | Defect | Medium | Removing individually selected lines does not work correctly |
| Issue 704 | Defect | Medium | A case where delete cells undo fails |
| Issue 710 | Defect | Medium | Duplicate modification in RIDE 0.32 if multiple keywords have same name |
| Issue 715 | Defect | Medium | Test Runner causes trace at startup |
| Issue 722 | Defect | Medium | User keyword and Test case names are not HTML escaped when serialized |
| Issue 724 | Defect | Medium | Resource flickering during suite open |
| Issue 726 | Defect | Medium | Importing library with second last argument other than string type fails |
| Issue 694 | Enhancement | Medium | Individual tag is hard to find from long list of tags |
| Issue 695 | Enhancement | Medium | Editing tags is hard when there is lot of tags |
| Issue 701 | Enhancement | Medium | Ability to print test suite at preview |
| Issue 708 | Enhancement | Medium | make settings iterable |
| Issue 691 | Documentation | Medium | Embedded images are not loaded when too old wxpython version |
| Issue 709 | Documentation | Medium | Document with wxPython 2.8.10.1 in Windows 7 Argument, Timeout and Return Value Dialog are opened twice |
| Issue 700 | Defect | Low | Delete shortcut is not working on Delete Rows |
Altogether 20 issues.
The most notable features of RIDE 0.32 are the possibility to execute test cases (issue 57) and find places where library keywords have been used (issue 647).
Big thanks to Bryan Oakley from Orbitz for contributing the TestRunnerPlugin.
RIDE 0.32 was released on Thursday 27th of January 2011. Notice that original RIDE 0.32 downloads were incomplete and immediately replaced with 0.32.1 versions.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 57 | Enhancement | High | Possibility to execute test cases |
| Issue 647 | Enhancement | High | Find places where library keywords have been used |
| Issue 653 | Defect | Medium | Importing library with mutable object as argument fails |
| Issue 662 | Defect | Medium | Testcase Edit button on Setup/Teardown/Tags/Timeout/Template missing on OSX |
| Issue 670 | Defect | Medium | Escaped empty cells at the end of line are ignored and lost if file is saved |
| Issue 673 | Defect | Medium | Setup/teardown is not highlighted if those have arguments |
| Issue 674 | Defect | Medium | Undoing extract variable does not remove created variable from tree |
| Issue 676 | Defect | Medium | New project is not added to recent files |
| Issue 677 | Defect | Medium | Drag and Drop flickers |
| Issue 681 | Defect | Medium | Delete doesn't work properly in Manage Run Configuration |
| Issue 615 | Enhancement | Medium | It should be possible to add variables via tree context menu |
| Issue 652 | Enhancement | Medium | Unix-style line endings in windows |
| Issue 665 | Enhancement | Medium | Find Usages dialog should have way to go back to the keyword in question |
| Issue 672 | Enhancement | Medium | Renaming might take long time and jam the RIDE |
| Issue 679 | Enhancement | Medium | Allow disabling and enabling menu items, toolbar buttons and shortcuts from plugin API |
Altogether 15 issues.
With all the great new features and added colors RIDE 0.31 is a perfect Christmas release. The most important new features are argument validation, highlighting occurrences in editor, finding where user keyword are used, and installation using easy_install.
All fixes and features are listed below. RIDE 0.31 was released on Thursday 23th of December 2010.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 15 | Enhancement | High | Argument count check for keywords |
| Issue 558 | Enhancement | High | Find places where user keyword has been used |
| Issue 595 | Enhancement | High | Highlight occurrences on grid editor |
| Issue 649 | Enhancement | High | Put RIDE to PyPI to allow installation with easy_install |
| Issue 612 | Defect | Medium | Location of keywords in tree is changed if directory suite is reloaded |
| Issue 613 | Defect | Medium | Ctrl-s does not save the file after keyword arguments are modified |
| Issue 627 | Defect | Medium | Edited variables are not correctly updated in the tree |
| Issue 628 | Defect | Medium | Autocomplete does not show long keyword names fully |
| Issue 630 | Defect | Medium | Repeated CTRL+Space slows down autocompletion |
| Issue 631 | Defect | Medium | First click in table selects always cell in row 1, column 1 |
| Issue 632 | Defect | Medium | Setups and teardown links are not updated in suite if imports are changed |
| Issue 637 | Defect | Medium | Selection is not visible after deleting item on Import/Variable/Metadata editors |
| Issue 639 | Defect | Medium | Selecting last variable from the tree and deleting it causes an error |
| Issue 640 | Defect | Medium | Renaming or deleting a test case file inside directory does not work |
| Issue 651 | Defect | Medium | Resources should be reloaded when opening a new project |
| Issue 654 | Defect | Medium | Typing $ or @ in the content assist closes it on Windows |
| Issue 339 | Enhancement | Medium | Show error when importing library fails |
| Issue 550 | Enhancement | Medium | Embedded arguments in keywords should be supported |
| Issue 592 | Enhancement | Medium | Show argument name in tooltip when hovering over an argument |
| Issue 599 | Enhancement | Medium | Documentation popup should be detachable |
| Issue 638 | Enhancement | Medium | Removing variables should be easier |
| Issue 656 | Defect | Low | When deleting rows the same row numbers are selected afterwards |
Altogether 22 issues.
The highlights of RIDE 0.30 are possibility to move variables between suite and resource files (issue 268), navigating to resource file from an import setting (issue 596) and extract variable functionality (issue 557). In addition, there is a number of smaller enhancements and bug fixes included.
Thanks to Bryan Oakley of Orbitz, who provided implementation to issue 606.
RIDE 0.30 was released on Monday 29th of November 2010.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 268 | Enhancement | High | Possibility to move variables between suites and resource files |
| Issue 557 | Enhancement | High | Create variable from value in grid editor |
| Issue 596 | Enhancement | High | Create link from imported resource to related item in the tree view |
| Issue 572 | Defect | Medium | Invalid plugin can cause RIDE to crash hard |
| Issue 590 | Defect | Medium | Test suite file is not reloaded when changed outside the editor |
| Issue 591 | Defect | Medium | Touching a test suite file crashes the editor |
| Issue 594 | Defect | Medium | Content assist should choose between left/right of the cell and below/above based on where there is more space |
| Issue 600 | Defect | Medium | Commenting doesn't work with 0.29.* |
| Issue 601 | Defect | Medium | Insert Rows does not work correctly with FOR loops |
| Issue 602 | Defect | Medium | RIDE gets stucked in "File Changed On Disk" -dialog |
| Issue 607 | Defect | Medium | Cannot modify contents inside a FOR loop in RIDE. |
| Issue 609 | Defect | Medium | Keyword search shows resource keywords twice |
| Issue 532 | Enhancement | Medium | It should be possible to move lines up/down in grid |
| Issue 552 | Enhancement | Medium | Allow selecting tree node based on controller through plugin API |
| Issue 569 | Enhancement | Medium | Support saving using old metadata format |
| Issue 586 | Enhancement | Medium | CTRL+Space in cell (without editing) should open suggestions |
| Issue 598 | Enhancement | Medium | Resource file name in tree should be file name without formatting |
| Issue 603 | Enhancement | Medium | OpenSuite, OpenResource ans TestCaseAdded messages need the data items in their payload |
| Issue 606 | Enhancement | Medium | plugin manager should sort list of plugins |
| Issue 610 | Enhancement | Medium | Load plugins from contrib directory automatically. |
| Issue 565 | Defect | Low | Keyword colorizer does not recognize renamed keyword immediately |
| Issue 604 | Enhancement | Low | Log system information on startup |
| Issue 605 | Enhancement | Low | Log should include traceback if an exception occured |
| Issue 608 | Enhancement | Low | Make txt default format for new files |
Altogether 24 issues.
RIDE 0.29.2 fixes critical performance issue in release 0.29.1. Thanks to Marko Ojala and Thomas Klein for helping to debug the issue.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 589 | Defect | Critical | RIDE 0.29.1 low performance with big data sets |
| Issue 588 | Defect | Medium | HTML Templates fail to parse encoding if same line contains other settings. |
| Issue 527 | Enhancement | Medium | Variable completion should show user keyword arguments first in the list |
Altogether 3 issues.
RIDE 0.29.1 fixes number of defects detected in release 0.29. Amongst the most critical ones keyword copying has been fixed (issue 571) and rename is now limited only to keywords with same source (issue 583).
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 571 | Defect | High | Copy keyword does not clone correctly |
| Issue 577 | Defect | High | Empty row in test case table stops test execution |
| Issue 583 | Defect | High | Renaming should have a scope, so that different keywords with same name are not renamed together |
| Issue 566 | Defect | Medium | Canceling the renaming of keyword/testcase displays error |
| Issue 568 | Defect | Medium | Delete Button removes the whole content of a cell |
| Issue 570 | Defect | Medium | Special variables containing string values are not initialized correctly |
| Issue 575 | Enhancement | Medium | All automatic globabl variables are not available in variable completion |
| Issue 585 | Enhancement | Medium | Keyword arguments should be first in suggestion list |
Altogether 8 issues.
RIDE 0.29.1 was released on Monday 8th of November, 2010.
New features in RIDE 0.29 are keyword renaming (issue 14) and search filtering by source (issue 534). Creating and extracting new keywords is now considerably faster, helping those who work with large test suites (issue 560). This release also fixes an old bug with setting file corruption (issue 272), based on a fix by Martin Taylor.
RIDE 0.29 was released on Monday 1st of November, 2010.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 272 | Defect | High | Settings file can be corrupted making it impossible to start RIDE |
| Issue 14 | Enhancement | High | Keyword rename |
| Issue 560 | Enhancement | High | Creating new keywords causes a long pause when editing large suites |
| Issue 551 | Defect | Medium | When selecting cell from a row that is not completely visible, next row is automatically selected |
| Issue 553 | Defect | Medium | Editing variable imports with arguments does not work properly |
| Issue 554 | Defect | Medium | RideOpenSuite is published even loading data fails |
| Issue 555 | Defect | Medium | Adding Metadata with Ride does not work. |
| Issue 556 | Defect | Medium | Deleting a test suite from file system inhibits further work in RIDE |
| Issue 559 | Defect | Medium | Not able to use Pipe '|' in the argument values of setup/Teardown/Tag Editors using Ride 0.28 |
| Issue 562 | Defect | Medium | Content assist does not work with non ascii characters |
| Issue 534 | Enhancement | Medium | Keyword search should support filtering by source |
| Issue 535 | Enhancement | Medium | Keyword search should be available through tree context menu |
Altogether 12 issues.
Highlights of RIDE 0.28 are the possibility to create a new keyword based on a value in a test case or user keyword (issue 13) and the possibility to extract a sequence of steps as a new user keyword (issue 250).
RIDE 0.28 was released on Monday 13th of September, 2010.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 13 | Enhancement | High | Create a new user keyword from value in test case or user keyword editor |
| Issue 250 | Enhancement | High | Extract keyword refactoring |
| Issue 255 | Enhancement | High | Internal logging facility |
| Issue 526 | Enhancement | High | Add support for writing pipe separator in txt file format |
| Issue 525 | Defect | High | Default Tags not anymore visible in RIDE editor |
| Issue 208 | Defect | Medium | Selecting with mouse from keyword completion list does not work in Windows |
| Issue 266 | Defect | Medium | Variable completion should support also user keyword arguments |
| Issue 297 | Defect | Medium | New Test Case and New User Keyword dialogs have poor initial position |
| Issue 480 | Defect | Medium | Inplace Templates |
| Issue 506 | Defect | Medium | Traceback when clicking in the Suite options |
| Issue 513 | Defect | Medium | Alternative Ctrl-Alt-Space shortcut for keyword completion is not visible |
| Issue 514 | Defect | Medium | Mouse over setting fields steals focus from keyword search |
| Issue 515 | Defect | Medium | Variables from variable files are not available when parsing resource imports |
| Issue 520 | Defect | Medium | Colorization of keywords from xml library specs does not work |
| Issue 524 | Defect | Medium | Executing a run configuration that has no command causes the output tab to be uncloseable |
| Issue 528 | Defect | Medium | If variable in variable table has unresolvable variables in value, the variable is not added to content asistance list |
| Issue 529 | Defect | Medium | Variables are shown to be always from current file |
| Issue 530 | Defect | Medium | Clearing settings does not clear comments |
| Issue 546 | Defect | Medium | Dialogs are always shown on the primary monitor on Windows |
| Issue 549 | Defect | Medium | n in test data is serialized to html with extra newline and space |
| Issue 37 | Enhancement | Medium | Moving to user keyword definition from keyword search dialog |
| Issue 517 | Enhancement | Medium | Create new user keyword -dialog should allow entering also arguments |
| Issue 518 | Enhancement | Medium | Shortcuts for moving list control items up and down |
| Issue 522 | Enhancement | Medium | RIDE should higlight/jump to keywords using the Given/When/And/Then grammar |
| Issue 537 | Enhancement | Medium | Selecting rows from row number header does not auto-scroll |
| Issue 538 | Enhancement | Medium | Select all cells in grid |
| Issue 544 | Enhancement | Medium | Add all builtin variables to variable completion |
| Issue 547 | Enhancement | Medium | Add F5 shortcut to Search Keywords and F6 to Preview |
| Issue 548 | Enhancement | Medium | Support all available formats in Preview |
| Issue 508 | Documentation | Medium | Windows installer puts wrong Python path in ride.py |
| Issue 354 | Defect | Low | Alt-Right and Alt-Left does not work on Linux, replace with Alt-Z, Alt-X |
Altogether 31 issues.
RIDE 0.27 contains a slew of enhancements, usability improvements and bug fixes, which are listed in detail in the table below:
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 490 | Defect | High | RIDE does not handle circular resource imports |
| Issue 295 | Defect | Medium | Resource name doesn't accept non-ascii characters |
| Issue 418 | Defect | Medium | Recent files not updated when format was changed |
| Issue 430 | Defect | Medium | Preview does not show added user keyword or test immediately |
| Issue 434 | Defect | Medium | Documentation popup is not destroyed if cursor is outside RIDE window |
| Issue 438 | Defect | Medium | When a Test Suite references a Remote library that is not present RIDE gets painfully slow |
| Issue 440 | Defect | Medium | Auto-Completion pop-up is fixed size and can go beyond physical screen boundaries |
| Issue 441 | Defect | Medium | Use OSX keys instead of CTRL keys for editing |
| Issue 443 | Defect | Medium | Keyboard shortcuts do not work on Linux when mouse is over cells with help boxes |
| Issue 445 | Defect | Medium | Uncomment Rows causes empty cell |
| Issue 447 | Defect | Medium | Using CMD-<arrow keys> doesn't work |
| Issue 485 | Defect | Medium | Spaces in path of imported files are removed when creating LibrarySpec object thus not finding the file. |
| Issue 491 | Defect | Medium | Move up or down causing error in console |
| Issue 492 | Defect | Medium | Grid needs to be recolorized after insert/delete cells |
| Issue 495 | Defect | Medium | Content in list variable editor cells does not wrap correctly |
| Issue 497 | Defect | Medium | Copy test does not initialize setup / teardown / etc fields properly |
| Issue 500 | Defect | Medium | Moving edited items in 'Manage Run Configurations' loses data |
| Issue 501 | Defect | Medium | Changes done via 'Manage Run Configurations' are not taken in use if the configuration is rerun from 'Run Again' button |
| Issue 280 | Enhancement | Medium | Allow navigation to setup/teardown keywords |
| Issue 435 | Enhancement | Medium | Search keywords should give prefix-match higher priority |
| Issue 471 | Enhancement | Medium | Controls for documentation and setup/teardown should have informative tooltip |
| Issue 472 | Enhancement | Medium | It should be possible to configure number of columns in list variable dialog |
| Issue 473 | Enhancement | Medium | Stretching list variable window should also stretch the table inside it |
| Issue 479 | Enhancement | Medium | RIDE cell selection behaviour inconsistent for top left cell |
| Issue 488 | Enhancement | Medium | ${/} variable does not work |
| Issue 489 | Enhancement | Medium | Inserting and deleting cells should work on ranges |
| Issue 493 | Enhancement | Medium | Insert Cells and Delete Cells menu items to list variable editor |
| Issue 499 | Documentation | Medium | Document where run configurations are stored |
| Issue 259 | Defect | Low | Keywords with long keyword names (e.g. BuiltIn.Log) are not colorized |
| Issue 285 | Defect | Low | Inconsistent displaying of the RIDE output files in browser |
| Issue 425 | Defect | Low | RIDE destroys/recreates editor when you select edit tab |
| Issue 486 | Defect | Low | When RIDE 0.26 reports collision in scalar and list variable names, the error message is duplicated |
| Issue 484 | Enhancement | Low | Insert cell and Delete cell buttons should be moved to context menu and Add row and Add column buttons removed |
Altogether 33 issues.
RIDE 0.26.1 fixes a critical bug that could cause RIDE to fail to open files that caused warnings and adds a background color to keyword search based on a patch by Riian Booysen. RIDE 0.26.1 was released on Tuesday 2010-07-27.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 483 | Defect | Critical | RIDE 0.26 crashes when reporting errors |
Altogether 1 issues.
The most important feature in RIDE 0.26 is vastly improved performance. Anyone with performance issues in RIDE should update as soon as possible. Release also contains new "Insert Cell" and "Delete Cell" buttons based on patch contributed by Riaan Booysen, fixes to undo, documentation pretty printing, loading resource files from python path, and some other minor fixes.
RIDE 0.26 was released on Thursday 2010-07-22.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 451 | Defect | High | undo doesn't always work for row deletion |
| Issue 468 | Defect | High | Opening keyword editor in 0.25.1 is very slow, when Colorizer is used |
| Issue 475 | Defect | High | The GUI Ride is so low at open the keyword with more 3 line |
| Issue 174 | Enhancement | High | Support for comments |
| Issue 424 | Enhancement | High | Keyword colorizer has performance issues |
| Issue 458 | Defect | Medium | Resource files from subdirectories in python path are not loaded |
Issue 469 Issue 477 |
Defect Enhancement |
Medium Improve grid usability by adding Insert Cell and Delete Cell buttons. |
Documentations of old test cases and keywords got broken with Ride 0.25.1 |
Altogether 7 issues.
RIDE 0.25.1 fixes bugs listed in the table below and adds initial support for editing commments in setting and variable tables.
RIDE 0.25.1 was released on Tuesday 2010-06-30.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 462 | Defect | High | Built-In variables are not handled properly when resources are resolved |
| Issue 464 | Defect | Medium | WITH NAME syntax disappears in settings dialog, but is still saved |
| Issue 466 | Defect | Medium | Children cannot be added to newly created directory |
Altogether 3 issues.
RIDE 0.25 is a compatibility release for Robot Framework 2.5. Due to the large internal changes in modules that RIDE uses, this version requires RF 2.5 to work. In addition to compatibility support was added for test templates and showing and editing of comments in test case and user keywords.
RIDE 0.25 was released on Thursday 2010-06-24.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
Issue 459 Issue 460 Issue 461 |
Enhancement Enhancement Enhancement |
Compatibility with Robot Framework 2.5 Support test template/template settings Support test case and user keyword comments. |
Altogether 3 issues.
RIDE 0.23 is mainly released because it adds support for Robot Framework 2.5 alpha 1. Also a couple of nasty editing bugs have been fixed. This will be last RIDE release that supports Robot Framework 2.1 series.
RIDE 0.23 was released on Wednesday 2010-05-12.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 450 | Enhancement | High | Compatibility with Robot Framework alpha 1 |
| Issue 426 | Defect | High | Copying part of the cell always copies all the cell contents |
| Issue 427 | Defect | High | Copy-pasting cell content results in two copies in Linux |
Altogether 3 issues.
RIDE 0.22.1 Fixes defects listed in the table below that were found in 0.22 and also introduces a possibility to move test cases and user keywords in the tree with keyboard shortcuts.
RIDE 0.22.1 was released on Friday 2010-03-26.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 419 | Defect | Critical | Library imports are messed up |
| Issue 422 | Defect | High | Copy-pasting multiple rows in a single column results in a single cell |
| Issue 405 | Enhancement | High | Keyboard shortcuts Ctrl-Up/Ctrl-Down for moving tests/keywords up/down |
| Issue 421 | Defect | Medium | RIDE saves files using Unix line separator on Windows |
Altogether 4 issues.
Even though originally labeled as bug-fix release, we managed (once again) to feature creep. In addition to bug fixes, this release allows copying data to and from spreadsheet programs (issue 406) and some user interface tweaks.
RIDE 0.22 was released on Wednesday 2010-03-24.
Thanks to Bryan Oakley of Orbitz for providing code to various issues and to user sbruhn of ADVA Optical for a patch to issue 401.
Thanks also to everyone who has submitted issues to our tracker.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 377 | Defect | High | Python 2.4 incompatibility |
| Issue 406 | Enhancement | High | Possibility to copy data between Excel/Open Office and RIDE |
| Issue 371 | Defect | Medium | Adding keyword or test in an empty resource or test case fails |
| Issue 375 | Defect | Medium | Commented rows should be colored with with a separate color |
| Issue 376 | Defect | Medium | All text is not visible in cells |
| Issue 384 | Defect | Medium | RIDE corrupts files on deleting duplicate variables |
| Issue 393 | Defect | Medium | Search keywords does not request user defined libraries documentation |
| Issue 394 | Defect | Medium | RIDE crashes with bad plugins |
| Issue 395 | Defect | Medium | error: AttributeError: 'BrokenPlugin' object has no attribute 'enable_on_startup' |
| Issue 398 | Defect | Medium | kweditor too agressive in saving to model |
| Issue 400 | Defect | Medium | RIDE always saves TSV files with DOS (rn) line endings |
| Issue 402 | Defect | Medium | Code completion doesn't work for newly created suite's tests |
| Issue 404 | Defect | Medium | When the keyword list is opened with ‘crtl-space’, it is not possible to exit without choosing some keyword |
| Issue 407 | Defect | Medium | Copy/pasting of many cells in list variables doesn’t work properly |
| Issue 412 | Defect | Medium | Comment Rows on lines within of a FOR loop generates wrong syntax |
| Issue 332 | Enhancement | Medium | Variable editing dialogs should have focus in variable base name |
| Issue 363 | Enhancement | Medium | Remove external libraries' spec files |
| Issue 387 | Enhancement | Medium | Use fixed font for output tab that is opened when running a testcase out of the RIDE |
| Issue 396 | Enhancement | Medium | plugin API needs generic publish method |
| Issue 401 | Enhancement | Medium | Sorting by Source should be available in "Search Keywords" dialog |
| Issue 389 | Documentation | Medium | Core plugins lack appropriate descriptive text |
| Issue 343 | Defect | Low | Unedited fields makes claims that the saving is needed |
Altogether 22 issues.
RIDE 0.21.1 contains the ciritical bug fixes to 0.21 listed below.
Version 0.21 was released on Wednensday, 3rd of February, 2010
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 367 | Defect | Critical | Editing import settings, variables or metadata does not work in RIDE 0.21 |
| Issue 369 | Defect | Critical | Creating new resources does not work in RIDE 0.21 |
| Issue 370 | Defect | Medium | Creating test or user keyword to empty suite shows the created item twice in tree |
Altogether 3 issues.
RIDE 0.21 contains a slew of enhancements and bug fixes. One of the most exiting new features is the ability to run commands on system, including tests, via run plug-in (issue 253). There are also several improvements to performance (issue 270, issue 276 and issue 357). All resolved issues are listed in the table below.
Version 0.21 was released on Tuesday, 2nd of February, 2010
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 270 | Defect | High | Search Keywords jams RIDE and Python takes all CPU time with big test data |
| Issue 318 | Defect | High | Undo problem |
| Issue 341 | Defect | High | Only first resource import of a resource file is processed |
| Issue 253 | Enhancement | High | Generic plugin for running any command in the system |
| Issue 357 | Enhancement | High | Do not create all test/keyword tree nodes when suite is loaded to save memory |
| Issue 256 | Defect | Medium | Variables in library imports are not resolved |
| Issue 276 | Defect | Medium | Test case and user keyword copy operation takes very long time to process after 10-15 copies |
| Issue 286 | Defect | Medium | Changing character's case in test case name causes validation error |
| Issue 304 | Defect | Medium | error found when opening directory |
| Issue 317 | Defect | Medium | RIDE crashes if user keyword data contains UserErrorHandlers |
| Issue 348 | Defect | Medium | Copied test case's or keyword's settings cannot be edited |
| Issue 349 | Defect | Medium | Keyword is not completed when pressing CTRL-Space in an empty cell |
| Issue 356 | Defect | Medium | Some data crashes RIDE when editors are created |
| Issue 362 | Defect | Medium | RIDE crashes when selecting another file from the recent files |
| Issue 364 | Defect | Medium | Documentation popup should not appear when the window doesn't have focus (Linux) |
| Issue 218 | Enhancement | Medium | Give access of other available plugins to a plugin that is to be activated |
| Issue 266 | Enhancement | Medium | Variable completion should support also user keyword arguments |
| Issue 281 | Enhancement | Medium | Content assist should be extensible |
| Issue 322 | Enhancement | Medium | Show progress bar when loading test data |
| Issue 327 | Enhancement | Medium | List variable editor should use grid instead of single input field |
| Issue 328 | Enhancement | Medium | Collect all test data parsing errors into one dialog |
| Issue 333 | Enhancement | Medium | Keyword colors |
| Issue 351 | Enhancement | Medium | ${/} should be replaced with / in import related settings automatically |
| Issue 273 | Defect | Low | Changing format recursively does not work with directories without __init file |
| Issue 278 | Defect | Low | Resource file name not shown correctly in the left-hand side tree |
| Issue 283 | Defect | Low | RIDE keyword search result doesn't display html tables correctly |
| Issue 284 | Defect | Low | Libraries are found from spec files case insensitively in Windows |
| Issue 336 | Enhancement | Low | 'save all' button needed |
Altogether 28 issues.
Version 0.20 contains mainly Plugin API related enhancements and fixes. In addition to them, a severe memory leak (issue 331) and adding suites to wrong directory (issue 289) were fixed, and some other smaller enhancements and fixes done. The full list of issues is below.
Due to the changes done to the plugin API, plugins' settings changed location in the settings file. Therefore it is recommended to remove the settings file to make it clean and ease the later use. See here where to find the settings file.
Version 0.20 was released on Friday, 4th of December, 2009.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 254 | Enhancement | Critical | Plugin API review and enhancements |
| Issue 212 | Defect | High | Key bindings (e.g. ctrl-c) are tied to main editor window and cannot be used by plugins |
| Issue 289 | Defect | High | Adding a new suite saves the file into wrong dir. |
| Issue 331 | Defect | High | Memory leak when changing editors |
| Issue 252 | Enhancement | High | Implement default test suite, test case, and keyword editors as plugin |
| Issue 296 | Enhancement | High | Remove broken unneccessary Save as... functionality |
| Issue 207 | Defect | Medium | Editors should not have two horizontal scrollbars |
| Issue 275 | Defect | Medium | Publisher should catch error in message handlers. |
| Issue 329 | Defect | Medium | Pressing delete key in test case name deletes from test step table |
| Issue 240 | Enhancement | Medium | It should be possible to deactivate the Preview plugin |
| Issue 313 | Enhancement | Medium | Context menu to the editor to support copy, paste, etc. |
| Issue 287 | Defect | Low | Clicking suite name goes to rename mode in Windows |
Altogether 12 issues.
Version 0.19 contains quite big simplifications to the user interface, which are described in issues 235 and 236. Functionality in removed nodes "Test Cases" and "User Keywords" have been moved to context menu in the tree. Additionally, some number of bugs have been fixed, of which the most important is the crash during file reload (issue 257)
Version 0.19 was released on Wednesday, 7th of October, 2009.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 257 | Defect | Critical | Loading changes from disk when editing a directory crashes RIDE |
| Issue 267 | Defect | High | Having suites with same name in different sub suites causes problems |
| Issue 233 | Enhancement | High | Possibility to change test data format |
| Issue 235 | Enhancement | High | Show variables on the same view as suite/resource settings |
| Issue 236 | Enhancement | High | Remove test case and user keyword lists and move their functionality to tree context menu |
| Issue 142 | Defect | Medium | Adding, renaming or deleting an import setting (resource and variable) does not affect keyword completion |
| Issue 258 | Defect | Medium | Keyword documentation does not work with long keyword names |
| Issue 202 | Enhancement | Medium | Possibility to open an empty directory or file |
| Issue 234 | Enhancement | Medium | Init file format should be asked from user instead of defaulting to HTML |
| Issue 247 | Enhancement | Medium | RIDE should support adding several rows at the same time. |
| Issue 249 | Enhancement | Medium | Validate arguments set to user keywords |
| Issue 182 | Defect | Low | Python variable files are not imported from PYTHONPATH |
| Issue 126 | Enhancement | Low | Test pane has poor resize behavior |
Altogether 13 issues.
Version 0.18 contains, as usual, a number of improvements and bug fixes. Most important of which these are support for plain text data format (issue 220) introduced in Robot Framework 2.1.1 and better editors for suite, test case and user keyword settings for improved usability (issue 227). Moving test cases and user keywords using drag and drop is also included in this release (issue 9).
Version 0.18 was released on Monday, 21th of September, 2009.
Big thanks to Bryan Oakley at Orbitz Worldwide for multiple contributions, including the test data colorizer (issue 110). Thanks also to to Bulkan Evcimen for a patch to bug in renaming tests and keywords (issue 194), to Jarmo Kortelainen for an enhancement patch to documentation editing (issue 206), and to jrvilda for important pre-release testing.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 209 | Defect | High | File cannot be saved when "the file has modified" dialog is shown |
| Issue 244 | Defect | High | Python 2.4 compatibility |
| Issue 9 | Enhancement | High | Possibility to move user keywords and test cases using drag-and-drop |
| Issue 220 | Enhancement | High | Support for writing tests in plain text format |
| Issue 227 | Enhancement | High | Better setting and variable editors |
| Issue 161 | Defect | Medium | Cell tooltips don't work right if window is scrolled |
| Issue 190 | Defect | Medium | Don't show preview tab by default |
| Issue 194 | Defect | Medium | Editing test case and user keyword names - it should be possible to keep the original name by clicking ok |
| Issue 199 | Defect | Medium | Delete button does not work in table cells |
| Issue 201 | Defect | Medium | RIDE should support deleting several rows at the same time. |
| Issue 214 | Defect | Medium | \n should not be replaced with \n<br> when serialized as HTML |
| Issue 219 | Defect | Medium | Error when reloading file |
| Issue 243 | Defect | Medium | Changes to files on disk should be ignored when user is exiting |
| Issue 110 | Enhancement | Medium | Colorize keywords, arguments, variables, etc. in the editor |
| Issue 116 | Enhancement | Medium | RIDE should support multi-cell documentation to improve readability |
| Issue 128 | Enhancement | Medium | Input fields in variable and setting dialogs should grow when the dialog is resized |
| Issue 189 | Enhancement | Medium | Jump to current test in preview |
| Issue 203 | Enhancement | Medium | Publish an event when a cell value changes in a grid |
| Issue 206 | Enhancement | Medium | Enhancements to handing newlines in documentations |
| Issue 221 | Enhancement | Medium | Possibility to show data also in plain text format in (HTML) Preview plugin |
| Issue 226 | Enhancement | Medium | Remove Test Setup, Test Teardown, Default Tags and Test Timeout settings from test suite init file UI |
| Issue 230 | Enhancement | Medium | Show source where suites and resource files originate |
| Issue 222 | Documentation | Medium | Document that RIDE requires Unicode version of wxPython |
| Issue 223 | Defect | Low | Comment or uncomment does not mark the modified file 'dirty' |
| Issue 168 | Enhancement | Low | Ensure that RIDE is always on a visible display |
| Issue 191 | Enhancement | Low | Core plugins should be loaded first |
| Issue 192 | Enhancement | Low | Only activate plugins after all have been loaded |
| Issue 231 | Enhancement | Low | Use "RIDE" instead of "Robot IDE" in title and everywhere else in the source code and documentation |
Altogether 28 issues.
Version 0.17 was released on Monday, 6th of July, 2009.
This version consists of bug fixes and minor enhancements, with one real feature thrown in. It is now possible to use settings file to define a list of libraries whose keywords will always be included in keyword completion and search. More information about this is available in the wiki. Full list of improvements in in the table below:
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 121 | Enhancement | High | auto imports setting to define a list of libraries that are always available |
| Issue 167 | Defect | Medium | Cut doesn't work for multiple rows |
| Issue 169 | Defect | Medium | RIDE cannot handle '=' in variable table |
| Issue 171 | Defect | Medium | Resource imports should support variables defined in another resource file |
| Issue 181 | Defect | Medium | RIDE fails to import libraries that are imported using With Name -syntax |
| Issue 100 | Enhancement | Medium | RIDE should have icons for the most important operations |
| Issue 112 | Enhancement | Medium | Overview of the test suite as HTML |
| Issue 155 | Enhancement | Medium | Save should only save the current suite |
| Issue 176 | Enhancement | Medium | Automatic literal newline character sequence when exiting edit window |
| Issue 175 | Defect | Low | Window scrolling is dodgy after large copy/pastes |
| Issue 183 | Defect | Low | Commenting rows does not work unless whole rows are selected |
Altogether 11 issues.
Version 0.16 was release Tuesday, 16th of June, 2009.
This version includes some really exciting new features and improvements. The ability to use templates (issue 6) for serialization enables also preserving of data outside of tables (issue 106), which has been impossible with previous versions of RIDE. The other major improvements are the plugin architecture (issue 138) and persistent settings__ (issue 103).
Additionally, some number of bugs have again been squashed, full details are in the table below.
Big thanks goes to Bryan Oakley at Orbitz__, who is largely responsible for the implementation of the plugin architecture, and the first automatic plugin to show the release notes when a new RIDE version is opened for the first time.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 6 | Enhancement | High | User defined test data templates |
| Issue 33 | Enhancement | High | Support for OSX |
| Issue 106 | Enhancement | High | Possibility to keep original HTML outside of test data tables |
| Issue 138 | Enhancement | High | Add support for plugins |
| Issue 145 | Defect | Medium | Can't start ride when both wx2.6 & 2.8 are installed |
| Issue 148 | Defect | Medium | Showing keyword tooltip also changes the selected cell while it shouldn't |
| Issue 150 | Defect | Medium | Can't create a new resource through GUI |
| Issue 156 | Defect | Medium | Save all should not stop on first failure |
| Issue 160 | Defect | Medium | Multiline test case documentation corrupt TSV file |
| Issue 103 | Enhancement | Medium | Persistent settings |
| Issue 115 | Enhancement | Medium | It should be possible to temporarily deactivate rows in a test case or even complete test cases |
| Issue 154 | Enhancement | Medium | RIDE does not read XML produced by the development version of libdoc |
| Issue 162 | Enhancement | Medium | Each release should include a copy of the release notes |
| Issue 163 | Enhancement | Medium | Create a plugin that displays release notes |
| Issue 158 | Defect | Low | control-space when not editing a cell throws an error |
Altogether 15 issues.
Version 0.15.1 was released on Wednesday 27th of May, 2009. This version fixes a critical problem in saving resource files (issue 143).
Version 0.15 was released on Tuesday 26th of May, 2009.
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_This release requires Robot Framework 2.1 or newer._
The most significant feature of this release is the use of operating system clipboard for copy/paste actions (issue 119). This also means that it is now possible to copy/paste items between two RIDE instances (issue 102). Other enhancements and bug fixes are described in the table below.
We want specially thank Bryan Oakley for great patches that significant contributed toward this release.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 119 | Defect | High | Copy/Paste does not use system clipboard |
| Issue 132 | Defect | High | Keyword search does not work for user keywords |
| Issue 102 | Enhancement | High | It should be possible to copy test cases and other data between different RIDE instances |
| Issue 94 | Defect | Medium | Move Add Suite from Tools menu to File menu |
| Issue 131 | Defect | Medium | MANIFEST.in missing, setup.py references files that are not in MANIFEST |
| Issue 136 | Defect | Medium | Ride does not serialize anchors for test cases and keywords anymore |
| Issue 1 | Enhancement | Medium | Newline should be added after "n" in test data |
| Issue 34 | Enhancement | Medium | HTML formatting for keyword documentation pop-up |
| Issue 134 | Enhancement | Medium | Top level documentation in resource files |
| Issue 141 | Enhancement | Medium | cell editor needs to be multi-line |
Altogether 10 issues.
Version 0.14 was released 27.4.2009.
The main feature is compatibility with Robot Framework 2.1. Bug fixes and improvements included in the release are listed below.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 122 | Enhancement | Critical | Robot Framework 2.1 compatibility |
| Issue 108 | Defect | Critical | Modified resource files are not marked with * and not serialized properly |
| Issue 99 | Defect | High | Variables from imported resource files are not used to resolve variables in following imports |
| Issue 113 | Defect | Medium | Proper exit behaviour on unsaved changes |
| Issue 123 | Defect | Medium | "Save As" doesn't work as expected with single files |
| Issue 105 | Enhancement | Medium | Resource imports should support variables defined in another resource file |
| Issue 127 | Enhancement | Medium | ride won't save new-but-mostly-empty suite |
Altogether 7 issues.
Version 0.13.1 was released 23.2.2009.
This release fixes the regression and the bug described below.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 96 | Defect | Critical | Keyword navigation doesn't work |
| Issue 98 | Defect | Critical | Variables with variables in their values are not handled correctly |
Version 0.13 was released 16.2.2009. There are some major new features, most important of which are the support for variable name completion and the ability to import libraries with arguments. Some bugs have also been squashed.
The old start-script run.py has been removed in favor of new ride.py script. ride.py is automatically installed under the scripts directory (%PYTHONDIR%/Scripts ín Windows and /usr/bin in Linux).
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 90 | Defect | High | Resource file cannot be used if it is named in camel case like MyResource.html in Windows |
| Issue 46 | Enhancement | High | Resource, library and variable imports should support variables |
| Issue 63 | Enhancement | High | Variable name completion |
| Issue 64 | Enhancement | High | RIDE should remember the directory where files were opened last time |
| Issue 69 | Enhancement | High | Initialization parameters are not passed to libraries |
| Issue 89 | Enhancement | High | Start-up scripts |
| Issue 81 | Defect | Medium | Viewing keyword documentation does not work when using the full name of a keyword |
| Issue 85 | Defect | Medium | Save As does not work with files |
| Issue 91 | Defect | Low | Suite, test and keyword documentations are not shown as HTML |
Version 0.12.3 was released 27.1.2009, to fix the two critical issues listed below.
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 80 | Defect | Critical | New project cannot be created through GUI |
| Issue 82 | Defect | Critical | RIDE converts 'Variables' imports to 'Resource' imports |
There is a bug in 0.12 which prevents the deletion of multiple cells in the grid. It is fixed in 0.12.1, otherwise the content is the same as in 0.12
DEPRECATED: Please use 0.12.1 instead NOTE: due to heavy internal refactoring, it is recommended that any previous installation is removed before installing 0.12.
Version 0.12 was released 23.1.2009. There are two major new features: It is now possible to read and write tsv files, as well as create tsv suites and resource files through the GUI. The IDE will now warn if there are changes on the disk to a suite that is being edited.
Additionally, the spec files have been updated so that latest keywords from SeleniumLibrary, SSHLibrary and SwingLibrary are included in the distribution.
Here's the list of issues closed in this release:
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 25 | Enhancement | High | Notification about new version of edited document |
| Issue 50 | Enhancement | High | TSV Support |
| Issue 65 | Enhancement | High | Need to include latest spec files of all our libraries in distributions |
| Issue 75 | Enhancement | High | Opening resource file from command line fails |
| Issue 66 | Documentation | High | Better documentation for using spec files |
| Issue 76 | Defect | Medium | Cannot create a new suite of tests in a file in Robot Framework IDE |
| Issue 67 | Enhancement | Medium | Should first check can the library be imported directly and only after that use possible spec file |
Version 0.11 was released 14.11.2008. The major new functionalities are the back and forward navigation with menu option or keyboard shortcuts Alt-Left and Alt-Right (issue31) and Undo possibility in the grid editors (issue2). Additional enhancements and bug fixes are listed below:
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 31 | Enhancement | High | Back and forward functionality to keyword linking |
| Issue 2 | Enhancement | High | Undo |
| Issue 54 | Defect | High | It is not possible to have a variable as a timeout value |
| Issue 21 | Defect | Medium | Delete key does not work properly when editing contents of a cell |
| Issue 29 | Defect | Medium | Empty keyword name with auto completion causes first keyword to be written to the cell |
| Issue 35 | Defect | Medium | Keyword documentation pop-up flickers on Windows |
| Issue 48 | Defect | Medium | Searching keyword should work with keyword names without spaces |
| Issue 49 | Defect | Medium | Changes are not noticed when cell editor is still open after first save |
| Issue 10 | Enhancement | Medium | Source of keyword should be visible in the keyword documentation popup |
Version 0.10.1 was released 14.10.2008. It contains a fix for bug that prevents copying or cutting multiple cells in test case or user keyword editors.
Version 0.10 was released 13.10.2008 Major new features are navigation to user keyword definition (issue8) and keyword documentation tooltip (issue28).
| ID | Type | Priority | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue 8 | Enhancement | High | Navigation to user keyword definition |
| Issue 7 | Enhancement | Medium | User keyword and test case names should be checked for uniqueness |
| Issue 17 | Enhancement | Medium | New project creation should not convert filenames to lowercase |
| Issue 18 | Enhancement | Medium | Should not ask for confirmation about save |
| Issue 26 | Enhancement | Medium | Warning if using old Robot Framework version |
| Issue 28 | Enhancement | Medium | Show a tooltip containing keyword documentation in test case or user keyword editor |
| Issue 22 | Defect | Low | List selection should change when an item is deleted |
| Issue 23 | Enhancement | Low | Additional shortcut for keyword completion |