Acceptance testing/Compatibility changes: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 07:36, 4 May 2017

As new features are developed for Moodle, some UI changes can cause changes which unfortunately affect behat feature files. This page is intended to document important compatibility changes for behat test developers.

Moodle 3.3

And I follow "Course 1"

Summary

Previous step:	And I follow "Course 1"
New step/s	And I am on "Course 1" course homepage And I am on "Course 1" course homepage with editing mode on
Backported to:	Moodle 3.1.6, 3.2.3 and up.

Examples

Before: Scenario: I am on the course homepage

   When I log in as "student1"
   And I am on site homepage
   And I follow "Course 1"
   Then I should see "Topic 1"

After: Scenario: I am on the course homepage

   When I log in as "student1"
   And I am on "Course 1" course homepage
   Then I should see "Topic 1"

Why did this change?

UI Changes mean the existing 'loose' step matches multiple values. The replacement step should help speed up your tests.

@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 == Moodle 3.3 ==
-=== 'And I follow "Course 1"' becomes  'And I am on "Course 1" course homepage' ===
+=== And I follow "Course 1" ===
+==== Summary ====
 {| class="wikitable"
 |-
@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 |-
 |New step/s
-|And I am on "Course 1" course homepage<br>And I am on "Course 1" course homepage'
+|And I am on "Course 1" course homepage<br>And I am on "Course 1" course homepage with editing mode on
 |-
 |Backported to:
 |Moodle 3.1.6, 3.2.3 and up.
-|-
-|Why:
-|UI Changes mean its not possible to rely on the existing loose text search returns multiple results
 |}
+==== Examples ====
 <b>Before:</b>
 <code>
@@ Line 35: / Line 33: @@
      Then I should see "Topic 1"
 </code>
+==== Why did this change? ====
+UI Changes mean the existing 'loose' step matches multiple values. The replacement step should help speed up your tests.
 == Moodle 3.2 ==
 == Moodle 3.1 ==

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