VILT Minium Manager: Release Notes

Monitoring - a custom Minium Project that are executed with high frequency (every 5, 10, 20 minutes), and can give us a report about the availability of a certain page and performance metrics, with the objective to check that the page are working as expected.

To use the monitoring feature, update the archive pom.xml of the Minium Projects to use the version 2.0.0 of minium-cucumber-parent.

Update the tools/jenkins/plugins directory. If you already have jenkins data, you also need to update data/jenkins/plugins (Don’t replace the plugin hp-application-automation-tools-plugin.hpi).

Added data exctraction report - a custom report (in excel format) with selected projects that will be sent to the specified email addresses configured with the status of the last completed execution and the project details.

Improve the error messages at executions for the credentials and modules missing errors.

If you have the minium.manager.pdf-generator.additional-args property in your application-prod.yml, update the application-prod.yml to use the properties minium.manager.pdf-generator.additional-settings and minium.manager.pdf-generator.additional-settings-object. The zoom property is defined by the property minium.manager.pdf-generator.additional-settings-object.load.zoomFactor and the javascript-delay property is defined by the property minium.manager.pdf-generator.additional-settings-object.load.jsdelay. You can check the properties for additional-settings here and for additional-settings-object here.

Remove the minium.manager.pdf-generator.bin-file property from the application-prod.yml. Also, remove the folder ./tools/pdf-generator/wkhtmltopdf from the bundle.

Support of the user timezone at the schedule daily reports.

Allow to delete users, when minium manager is not configured with LDAP.

Warns the user when the user tries to log in with the email address.

Logging in a separated file.

The version of minium-cucumber-parent defined on the POM of the projects can now be automatically updated. To enable the auto-update, go to the Runtime tab on the Project Configurations and check the Update to the latest version option on the Minium version field.

TestLink integration.

Fix the project name execution, when the name uses a huge string without spaces.

Test executions with profiles containing white spaces.

Pagination on the Labels page.

Reduced disk space usage.

Update the application-prod.yml property names to use the canonical format (acme.my-property and not acme.myProperty).

Add the logging properties at application-prod.yml file properties.

(Optional) Add the file ./tomcat/webapps/jenkins/WEB-INF/classes/logging.properties to log the jenkins output in a separate file.

To support the auto-update of minium-cucumber-parent, check the 6.6 Minium version auto-update section of the installation guide.

For installations that do not have access to the internet, update the Maven repository. The new Maven repository requires the projects to have at least minium-cucumber-parent 1.9.0 as the parent project.

Update the active Selenium Grid Extras modules on the hub and nodes.

Sensitive configuration properties that cannot be included on the repository of the tests can now be safely defined on Minium Manager.

Added daily report - a custom report with selected projects that will be sent to the user email with the status of the last completed execution in the last 24 hours.

Disappearance of executions with the same browsers from the queue (launched when a execution with the same browsers is executing) for the same project.

Feature results not being loaded when the name of a feature file contained Spanish characters.

Update the tools/maven directory.

Update the tools/jenkins/plugins directory. If you already have jenkins data, you also need to update data/jenkins/plugins (Don’t replace the plugin hp-application-automation-tools-plugin.hpi). Particularly, make sure that the Mask Passwords Plugin is installed.

Replace the package jenkins.war at the tomcat/webapps.

To support the configuration of sensitive parameters, it is required to either have at least Java 8u162 installed or install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files.

REST API:

Branch configuration (git repositories).

Resend the activation email at the recovery password, when the user is not activated.

Automatic discovery of Selenium nodes.

Critical bug that caused an error when launching executions.

Remove the seleniumNodes list of the providers configured with the type seleniumgridextras from the config/application-prod.yml. Update the Selenium Grid Extras to the version 2.0.4. Update the configuration file selenium/hub/hub_4444.json in order to add the servlet com.groupon.seleniumgridextras.grid.servlets.ListNodesServlet to the servlet array list. Finally, configure the file selenium/hub/selenium_grid_extras_config.json to set the webdriver version with the value 3.8.1 or lower.

Randomly occurring bug that provoked errors across the whole application.

Hub failing to provide a session when the requested capabilities contained browser options.

Creation of users without groups.

Excessive size of Selenium Hub’s logs.

Copy the selenium/hub/log4j.properties file to the selenium/hub folder and set the grid_jvm_options and grid_jvm_x_options properties on the selenium_grid_extras_config.json file.

If it is being used, update the minium-grid-extensions.jar file on the Hub.

Missing screenshots for executions on multiple browsers.

Report generation on machines without access to the internet.

Missing icons on PDF reports.

Exaggerated disk space usage by H2 databases.

PDF reports, namely the summary and screenshots.

Improved the performance at the executions project page.

Update the tools/pdf-generator/report-resources directory.

If there are problems with PDF reports or if the minium.manager.pdf-generator.zoom property was being used, see PDF reports do not look as expected on 7. Troubleshooting Minium Manager.

It is recommended to update Tomcat to 8.5.

Support more browser capabilities - Configure custom capabilities for your browsers.

Added advanced browser selection and configurator - New user interface to quickly and easily configure browsers where you want to run your tests.

Support concurrent executions - By configuring executors for each project, run tests in parallel.

Configure multiple browser instance providers - Configure external and internal browser instances allowing to run tests on private/internal servers or run tests on the cloud.

Share links of project executions - You can share the link of a specific execution with your team.

Added configuration to send the email report only when there are test failures.

Improved UI/UX of project configuration

Cancel a running execution stops the web driver session.

Change the configuration of the provider. Providers are now configured through a different property (see 5.2.3. Multiple providers).

Remove the configuration properties from the config/application-webdrivers.yml file. That file is now only used for configuring additional browser-specific settings (see 6.6. Additional WebDriver configurations).

Selenium Grid and the minium-cucumber-parent version on the pom.xml file of the projects can be upgraded for better compatibility with the latest browser versions, namely Firefox and Internet Explorer. See the Compatibility section for more details.

Browsers: Chrome 63, Firefox 57 and Internet Explorer 11.

Selenium Grid:

Minium Core 1.9.0.

Added progress execution - Visualize the test being executed at the browser during the execution.

Added cucumber tags - Use this option to tell Minium Manager that only run features or scenarios that have certain tags in a project.

Added Video Recording - Every test that runs on Minium Manager is video recorded exactly as it is executed. This feature is helpful if there are any failures. You can even jump to a given point in the video where your step is failing

Improved UI/UX of feature page

Fixed pagination bug on projects page

Upgrade the version of minium-cucumber-parent to 1.8.0 on the pom.xml file of each project.

Improved UI/UX

Improved documentation

Fixed pagination widget

Fixed compatibility issues with IE8

LDAP integration

Added project Permission

Added Security roles levels

Organized projects filters with labels and groups

Added project rename

REST API - Minium Manager supports the use of REST API to launch test executions.