Digital.ai Continuous Testing 23.6 Release Notes
Released: 19 July 2023
Updated Demo Website and Community Code
We've added new starter scripts to our Community Code repository, so you can get quickly set up with web testing using Selenium.
Support for iOS 17 (Beta)
Digital.ai Continuous Testing Cloud supports iOS 17(beta) both on real devices and simulators. Now increase your testing scope by testing your applications against iOS 17(beta) to ensure all the functionalities are working and discover any new bugs.
Here is a short demo of iOS 17(beta) from Continuous Testing cloud with all the different context/identification types:
*Limitations for iOS 17(beta) are mentioned here.
New Features
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**Downloadable Crash Logs
**When an application crashes, you can now download the crash logs associated with your test execution right from the Reporter attachments. -
**Appium Server - Clear Device Location
**You can now reset your device's location after mocking. -
**Mobile Studio - Emulators - Add Emulator Machine Name to Device Information
**You can now see the emulator machine name as part of device information. -
Mobile Studio - Console - Show Meaningful Message When App Installation Fails In the event of a failed application installation within Mobile Studio, an informative message is generated, explaining the reasons for the failure.
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**Mobile Studio - Unavailability of the Network Tunneling Server is not Indicated in Mobile Studio
**An indicator will now be displayed when the Network Tunneling tool is unavailable. -
Mobile Studio - Monitors tab - iOS - Loading Animation of Battery Performances Keeps Working Endlessly You won't experience any difficulties when monitoring your iOS device's battery.
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**Mobile Studio - Accessibility - Accessibility Reactivates Upon Interacting With a Device
**Interacting with the device while in stop mode won't trigger the inspector's reactivation. -
**Mobile studio - Screen Settings - Optimize Rendering of Device Screenshots
**When you've configured a high frame rate on a slower machine, the system automatically adjusts the frame rate for optimal user experience. -
**iOS - Device Passcode Utility - Additional Languages
**In addition to English, now you can use German, French, Turkish and few other languages. -
**SeeTestClient - New Command - StopLocationPlayback
**Now you can use StopLocationPlayback to terminate the location playback on the background.
**Bug Fixes and Improvements
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**Public Cloud - Unable to launch Windows Browsers
**We fixed a bug that prevented browsers from opening on a Windows machine in SeeTest.io. -
**Cloud - Update Selenium 4 Script on Quick Test Page
**You can now run a sample automation script using Selenium-Java 4.9.0 and above. -
**Cloud - Dashboard Sorting
**Now you can sort Project and Device Usage tables. -
Remote Debugging - **ADB Forward
**We fixed a bug with the ADB Forwarding capability in Remote Debugging. -
**Mobile Studio - Receiving Web Dump after Automation Execution
**You can now refresh the dump of a web/hybrid application after running an automation test on the opened device. -
Android - Issues Observed When Starting Performance Transaction
We fixed the issue where the device response time was high upon starting the performance transaction. -
Simulators - Connection Stability Issue Fixed
We fixed the issue where the connection stability notification was seen in iOS simulators running on 13.2.2 and earlier. -
Android - Improvements on Accessibility Inspector
We made improvements on the inspector to support additional classes to retrieve the values. -
iOS - Orientation Issues
In certain devices, the change orientation was not working more than twice. Now, it has been fixed. -
Android - Oppo devices - Performance improvements
General connection has been improved against oppo devices to reduce the high response time in cloud -
iOS - Dump improvements for Instrumented apps built with Swift UI elements
We fixed the issue where the element properties were not fetched properly for apps built using Swift UI elements. -
Android 12+ - Improvements to Screenshot from Secured Activities
We enhanced the code on app launch part so that the Connection Stability notification will no longer be displayed. -
iOS - Device logs improvement
Now you can configure the logs in mobile studio to conform the logs from console app of macOS.
Announcements
DHM and Selenium Agent for macOS officially support the last 3 major OS versions. Because of this, DHM and Selenium Agent are not supported in macOS Catalina as of version 23.3.
Notes and Known Issues
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Limitations on Android 12 - 14 devices are mentioned here.
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We recommend removing the passcode on iOS 15.x and 16.x devices to avoid devices going into an error state. Read the complete iOS limitations here.
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Due to technical limitations, Appium Client 8 is not supported in Appium Grid. Instead, use Appium Server.
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Network data in Performance Transactions appears in bytes instead of KB, as displayed.
Cloud Management and On-Premise Deployment
This section is only relevant for Cloud Administrators. To access the Cloud Management documentation, you need to log in. Download installers for on-prem deployments can be found here. If you do not have credentials, contact support@digital.ai.
Important Notes and Known Issues
- 23.8
The "Upgrade" Selenium button in the cloud will be deprecated. Selenium Agent upgrades can be completed using ansible and the installers.
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**23.6
**Cloud V2 Java client now uses Java 17.
If you are using V2 Java client in your tools, you need to upgrade to Java 17 as well. -
23.4
Removal old Appium client version from cloud repository. Versions 4,5,6 were removed, only version 7 is presented.
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**23.3
Audio features are no longer be supported by the old hardware and are only supported through the new Bluetooth hardware.**
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**23.2
**For Cloud Administrators of environments with no internet access, see the new Chromedriver configuration documentation.M2 machines are now supported for part of the cloud services. See the system requirements to learn more. -
**22.12
**DHM supports MacOS Ventura. See the updated system requirements here. -
**22.10
**All cloud components support Java 17. -
**22.9
**Cloud Server and Reporter only support PostgreSQL versions 14.2, 13.6, and 12.10.
Latest Browser and OS Version Support
| Apple | Android | Chrome | Firefox | Edge | IE | |
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| Official | 12.3.x — 15.7.7, 16.x — 16.5.1 GA | 5.1 — 13 | 114 | 114 | 114 | 16.4 |
| Beta | 16.6 RC, 17 beta 3 | 14 beta 4 | 114 | 115 | 115 |
Limitations on Android 12-14 devices are mentioned here.
Read more about browser testing limitations.
Next Release
Due date*: 09.08.2023 (or prior)