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diff --git a/lib/common_test/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/common_test/doc/src/notes.xml index aaf6dffc88..8e85563d9a 100644 --- a/lib/common_test/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/common_test/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -33,6 +33,251 @@ <file>notes.xml</file> </header> +<section><title>Common_Test 1.12.1.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + If the telnet server would pause during transmission of a + line of text before terminating the line, the + ct_telnet:expect/3 function would print the line twice in + the test case HTML log. This problem has been fixed.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13730 Aux Id: seq13135 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Common_Test 1.12.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + The <c>nodelay</c> option used to be enabled + (<c>true</c>) by default for sockets opened by the Common + Test telnet client. This appeared to cause communication + problems with telnet servers on some systems, and + therefore the option is no longer used. Its value may + instead be specified in the telnet connection settings. + See the man page for <c>ct_telnet</c> for details. Please + note that the interface function <c>connect</c> in + <c>unix_telnet</c> has been updated with an extra + argument and is now <c>unix_telnet:connect/7</c>.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13462 Aux Id: seq13077 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Fix bug in cth_surefire: When a pre_init_per_suite hook + fails before reaching the + cth_surefire:pre_init_per_suite, cth_surefire produced + incorrect XML.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13513</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The <c>ct:get_timetrap_info/0</c> function has been + updated to return more information about timetrap + scaling.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13535</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + A problem with stylesheet HTML tags getting incorrectly + escaped by Common Test has been corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13536</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The <c>ct_run</c> start flag <c>-no_esc_chars</c> and + <c>ct:run_test/1</c> start option <c>{esc_chars,Bool}</c> + have been introduced to make it possible to disable + automatic escaping of characters. Automatic escaping of + special HTML characters printed with <c>io:format/1,2</c> + and <c>ct:pal/1,2,3,4</c> was introduced in Common Test + 1.12. The new flag/option may be used to disable this + feature for backwards compatibility reasons. (The option + is also supported in test specifications).</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13537</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Common_Test 1.12</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + This update fixes the problem with generic printouts in + the html log file not having special characters escaped. + Printouts made with <c>io:format/2</c> and + <c>ct:pal/2</c> will now get special characters escaped + automatically. Common Test will not attempt to escape + characters printed with <c>ct:log/2</c> since it is + assumed that the user may want to print html tagged data + using this function. A new function, <c>ct:log/5</c>, has + been added, which offers optional escaping of characters. + The latter function may also be used to print text to the + log without headers and CSS class wrapping (analogue to + <c>io:format/2</c>).</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13003 Aux Id: seq13005 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Commit 4cf832f1ad163f5b25dd8a6f2d314c169c23c82f + erroneously removed logging of open and close of netconf + connections. This is now corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13386</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The directory to which nodes started with + <c>test_server:start_node/3</c> writes their + erl_crash.dump is changed. The crashdumps were earlier + written to the directory of test_server.beam, but in + later versions of Microsoft Windows this is no longer + writable (even for administrators). The framework + (common_test) log directory is now used instead.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13388</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + This update makes it possible to specify multiple + instances of the same group or test case in one test + specification term in order to repeat execution. Example: + <c>{groups, "./", my_SUITE, [my_group, my_group], {cases, + all}}, or {cases, "./", my_SUITE, [my_tc, my_tc, + my_tc]}.</c></p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13241 Aux Id: seq12979 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Two new CT hook functions have been added: + <c>post_init_per_testcase/4</c> and + <c>pre_end_per_testcase/3</c>. With these hook functions, + it is possible to perform arbitrary actions (including + modifications of test execution, test state and results) + immediately before and after the execution of the test + case.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13242 Aux Id: seq12991 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The <c>ct_netconfc</c> was earlier very restrictive as to + which SSH options the user could set. This is now + changed, and any SSH option is now allowed. The netconf + client will simply pass on any option, which it does not + recognize, to SSH.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13338 Aux Id: seq13053,seq13069 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Common_Test 1.11.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + If a ssh package contained more than one netconf end tag, + then the second end tag was never detected in + ct_netconfc:handle_data. Instead it was included in the + XML data given to the xmerl parser, which then failed. + The problem was introduced by OTP-13007, and has now been + corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13323</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Common_Test 1.11.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + When data from the netconf server was split into many ssh + packages, the netconf client performed really bad. This + is now improved.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13007</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + In ct_netconfc, if a timer expired 'at the same time' as + the server sent the rpc-reply, the timeout message might + already be in the client's message queue when the client + removed the timer ref from its 'pending' list. This + caused a crash in the client since the timer ref could no + longer be found when handling the timeout message. This + problem is now fixed by always flushing the timeout + message from the message queue when canceling a timer.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13008</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The error logger handler ct_conn_log_h did not respect + the 'silent' option, and tried to print to an undefined + file descriptor. This has been corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13035</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + If the user would let the test run proceed after test + suite compilation failure, Common Test did not set the + exit status to indicate failure as expected. This has + been corrected. Also, the 'abort_if_missing_suites' + option now makes Common Test abort the test run without + asking the user if compilation fails, even if access to + stdin/stdout exists.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13173 Aux Id: seq12978 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + With the Common Test 'create_priv_dir' start option set + to 'auto_per_tc', the name of the priv directory for a + configuration function could clash with the name of the + priv directory for a test case, which would cause Test + Server failure. This error has been corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-13181</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Common_Test 1.11</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> @@ -760,7 +1005,7 @@ configuration function or test specification term), the affected test cases get the status <c>user_skipped</c> instead.</p> <p>This update has meant a few changes that - may affect Common Test users in various ways: <list> + may affect Common Test users in various ways:</p> <list> <item>The test results and statistics will be affected, which is important to know when running regression tests and comparing results to previous test runs.</item> @@ -780,7 +1025,7 @@ <c>auto_skipped</c> rather than <c>user_skipped</c> as before.</item> <item>The event messages that Common Test generates during test runs have been affected by this - update. For details see OTP-11524.</item> </list> </p> + update. For details see OTP-11524.</item> </list> <p> Own Id: OTP-11305 Aux Id: OTP-11524 </p> </item> @@ -831,7 +1076,7 @@ <item> <p>The following modifications have been made to the event messages that Common Test sends during test - execution: <list> <item>For the <c>tc_auto_skip</c> + execution:</p> <list> <item>For the <c>tc_auto_skip</c> event, the value of the <c>Func</c> element has changed from <c>end_per_group</c> to <c>{end_per_group,GroupName}</c>.</item> <item>When @@ -843,7 +1088,7 @@ configuration name already in use, the <c>tc_done</c> event now reports the error with a tuple (of size 2) tagged <c>failed</c> instead of <c>skipped</c>.</item> - </list> Please see the Event Handling chapter in the + </list> <p>Please see the Event Handling chapter in the Common Test User's Guide for reference. </p> <p> Own Id: OTP-11524 Aux Id: OTP-11305 </p> @@ -1247,7 +1492,6 @@ <item> <p> Some bugfixes in <c>ct_snmp:</c></p> - <p> <list> <item> ct_snmp will now use the value of the 'agent_vsns' config variable when setting the 'variables' parameter to snmp application agent configuration. @@ -1255,14 +1499,13 @@ supported versions had to be specified twice. </item> <item> Snmp application failed to write notify.conf since ct_snmp gave the notify type as a string instead of an - atom. This has been corrected. </item> </list></p> + atom. This has been corrected. </item> </list> <p> Own Id: OTP-10432</p> </item> <item> <p> Some bugfixes in <c>ct_snmp</c>:</p> - <p> <list> <item> Functions <c>register_users/2</c>, <c>register_agents/2</c> and <c>register_usm_users/2</c>, and the corresponding <c>unregister_*/1</c> functions @@ -1279,7 +1522,7 @@ priv_dir instead of in the configuration dir (priv_dir/conf). This has been corrected. </item> <item> Arguments to <c>register_usm_users/2</c> were faulty - documented. This has been corrected. </item> </list></p> + documented. This has been corrected. </item> </list> <p> Own Id: OTP-10434 Aux Id: kunagi-264 [175] </p> </item> @@ -1343,7 +1586,7 @@ </item> <item> <p> - Update common test modules to handle unicode <list> + Update common test modules to handle unicode:</p> <list> <item> Use UTF-8 encoding for all HTML files, except the HTML version of the test suite generated with erl2html2:convert, which will have the same encoding as @@ -1354,7 +1597,7 @@ unicode:characters_to_list and unicode:characters_to_binary for conversion between binaries and strings instead of binary_to_list and - list_to_binary. </item> </list></p> + list_to_binary. </item> </list> <p> Own Id: OTP-10783</p> </item> @@ -1395,7 +1638,6 @@ <p> The following corrections/changes are done in the cth_surefire hook:</p> - <p> <list> <item> Earlier there would always be a 'properties' element under the 'testsuites' element. This would exist even if there were no 'property' element @@ -1428,7 +1670,7 @@ </item> <item> A new option named 'url_base' is added for this hook. If this option is used, a new attribute named 'url' will be added to the 'testcase' and 'testsuite' - elements. </item> </list></p> + elements. </item> </list> <p> Own Id: OTP-10589</p> </item> |