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diff --git a/lib/common_test/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/common_test/doc/src/notes.xml index ddfeb0964b..94738d2eff 100644 --- a/lib/common_test/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/common_test/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -32,6 +32,207 @@ <file>notes.xml</file> </header> +<section><title>Common_Test 1.9</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + The source code to html code generator in Test Server + (and Common Test) would fail to generate anchors in the + html code for functions with non-expandable macros, + resulting in bad html links to such functions. This + correction lets the code generator ignore macros that + can't be expanded (i.e. not pre-process them), so that + correct anchors will always be produced.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11766 Aux Id: seq12556 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + OTP-11971 erroneously changed the handling of relative + paths (import/export files) specified in the cover spec + file. This is now corrected so these are expected to be + relative to the directory where the cover spec file + itself is stored.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12031</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Common Test would sometimes crash while trying to print + large amounts of SASL reports to log on a computer with a + slow file system. This problem (due to an error in IO + message buffering in ct_logs) has been fixed.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12159</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The common_test telnet client, ct_telnet and friends, had + some unstable test cases. Some of these were caused by + the unix_telnet callback sending an extra newline after + sending the password. This caused the sever to send an + extra prompt back which confused the tests. The extra + newline is no longer sent.</p> + <p> + Also, debug printouts and logging from the telnet client + is improved, and some test cases are slightly modified in + order to stabilize the test.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12329</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + ct_netconfc did not expect the return value + {error,timeout} from ssh_connection:subsystem/4. This has + been corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12334</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + A new option, <c>{newline,boolean()}</c> is added to all + functions in <c>ct_telnet</c> that send data (command + strings) to the telnet server. By default, + <c>ct_telnet</c> adds a newline to all command strings, + and by setting the new option to <c>false</c> this + behavior is turned off.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12252 Aux Id: seq12730 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + Distribute <c>autoconf</c> helpers to applications at + build time instead of having multiple identical copies + committed in the repository.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12348</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Common_Test 1.8.2</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Ticket OTP-11971 introduced a runtime dependency towards + test_server-3.7.1, since the interface between + test_server and common_test was changed. Erroneously, the + common_test.app file was not updated according to this. + This has now been corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12037</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Warning: this is experimental and may disappear or change + without previous warning.</p> + <p> + Experimental support for running Quickcheck and PropEr + tests from common_test suites is added to common_test. + See the reference manual for the new module + <c>ct_property_testing</c>.</p> + <p> + Experimental property tests are added under + <c>lib/{inet,ssh}/test/property_test</c>. They can be run + directly or from the commont_test suites + <c>inet/ftp_property_test_SUITE.erl</c> and + <c>ssh/test/ssh_property_test_SUITE.erl</c>.</p> + <p> + See the code in the <c>test</c> directories and the man + page for details.</p> + <p> + (Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz for a patch adding Triq)</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-12119</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + +<section><title>Common_Test 1.8.1</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p> + Substrings in long telnet messages would sometimes get + wrongly reversed. This error has been corrected.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11871 Aux Id: seq12581 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The basic_html logging mode in Common Test (for + compatibility with old browsers) generated HTML code with + unbalanced tags. This has been fixed.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11917 Aux Id: seq12598 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + The mechanism for running code cover analysis with + common_test has been improved. Earlier, if a test run + consisted of multiple tests, cover would be started and + stopped for each test. This would give "intermediate" + cover logs available from the "Coverage log" link on the + test suite result pages. To accumulate cover data over + all tests, the 'export' option had to be used in the + cover spec file. This was not well documented, and the + functionality was quite confusing.</p> + <p> + Using the 'nodes' option in the cover spec file would + fail when the test run consisted of multiple tests, since + the specified nodes would only be included in the cover + analysis of the first test.</p> + <p> + The repeated compilation and analysis of the same modules + was also very time consuming.</p> + <p> + To overcome these problems, ct will now only cover + compile and analyze modules once per test run, i.e. once + for each cover spec file. The log file is available via a + new button on the top level index page. The old "Coverage + log" links on the test suite result pages still exist, + but they all point to the same log containing the + accumulated result.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11971</p> + </item> + <item> + <p> + If multiple tests would run simultaneously on different + Erlang nodes, writing their logs to the same directory, + then there would often be entries in the all_runs.html + log file showing incomplete results (all zeroes) upon + completion. This problem was caused by a bug in the + Common Test log cache mechanism, which has been fixed.</p> + <p> + Own Id: OTP-11988 Aux Id: seq12611 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + +</section> + <section><title>Common_Test 1.8</title> <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> |