nexial-core 2.2 (2019-05-08)

Release 2.2

2019-05-08

General

Fixes

• code fix to support project.properties that contains key with multiple spaces.

Improvements

• improved the handling of crypt data variable during output generation.
• enhance the display of execution output (Excel) to aid with readability (each row should now be a bit taller).
• minor adjustment to the output of the skipped steps where the corresponding “description” field is styled differently as a visual indication.
• fixed code so that ${list}.[${index}] syntax can be supported to access an item in a list data variable.
• support “crypt” data entered directly into script.

Nexial Installer

• v1.4.1 released: Added the setting of permission bits on shell scripts/batch files during installation. This would be most useful to *NIX/MacOSX users. Windows users wouldn’t see any benefit in this case.

System Variables

• nexial.scope.isLastIteration: is current iteration the last iteration for this script?
• nexial.scope.isFirstIteration: is current iteration the first iteration for this script?
• nexial.scope.currentIterationId: the iteration ID (corresponds to the column index on the datasheet) of current iteration.

Nexial Expression

• fix the storage of large decimal numbers when using [NUMBER(...) => ...] expression. The previous scientific representation has been replaced with plain numeric representation.
• CSV(...) => sortAscending and CSV(...) => sortDescending now supports both numeric and textual sorting, depending on the target column data.
• EXCEL expression now accepts Excel files of any size.
• NUMBER expression now supports numbers with currency symbol or thousand separators.
• support the change of method parameter delimiter from the default , to the value of nexial.textDelim.

Built-in Function

• $(date|diff|date1|date2|precision): NEW function to derive the date-level difference between 2 dates (assume in standard format, MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss). Use precision to control the return value.

base commands

• assertArrayNotContain(array,unexpected): now consider empty array as SUCCESS, since such array/list contains nothing.
• macro(file,sheet,name): code update to support use of macro within repeat-until block.

csv commands

• CSV » toExcel: NEW command to export CSV content into new/existing Excel file.

desktop commands

• clickElementOffset(name,xOffset,yOffset): NEW command to enable clicking on an interactive element (such as textbox or toolbar) with custom x an y offsets.
• saveTextByLocator(var,locator): NEW command to save the text content of the specified locator to var.
• saveTextByLocator(var,locator): now supports more element types.
• saveText(var,name): no longer FAIL test step when no text is found in specified desktop element. Instead Nexial will remove the specified var when no text is found.

localdb commands

• NEW command type to create, maintain and manipulate a local-only relational database. One can use such facility to collect execution-bound data over multiple executions, or use the SQL capability to manipulate structured data set of any conceivable size.
• minor adjustments to the generated SQL and console output.

web commands

• assertElementsPresent(prefix): improved logging.
• assertElementsPresent(prefix): fix runtime error when not all the data variables under the same prefix has the .locator suffix.
• waitForElementPresent(locator): code fix to “wait” correctly and not exceed nexial.pollWaitMs value.
• scrollLeft(locator,pixel): deprecated in favor of the new [scrollElement(locator,xOffset,yOffset)] command
• scrollRight(locator,pixel): deprecated in favor of the new [scrollElement(locator,xOffset,yOffset)] command
• scrollElement(locator,xOffset,yOffset): NEW command to scroll left/right/top/bottom (relatively) on a web element.
• scrollPage(xOffset,yOffset): NEW command to scroll left/right/top/bottom (relatively) on the current web page.