Acceptance testing/Compatibility changes
| Warning: This page is no longer in use. The information contained on the page should NOT be seen as relevant or reliable. |
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.
Compatibility changes
Moodle 3.3
And I follow "Course 1"
Summary
| Previous step/s: | 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. |
| 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 in the new dashboard mean the existing 'loose' step matches multiple values. The replacement step should help speed up your tests.
Moodle 3.2
And I click on "Edit settings" "link" in the "Administration" "block"
Summary
| Previous step/s: | And I click on "Edit settings" "link" in the "Administration" "block" |
| New step/s | And I navigate to "Edit settings" in current page administration |
| Backported to: | Moodle 3.2.1, 3.1.4 and up. |
| Before | Scenario: Going to course settings
When I log in as "teacher1"
And I follow "Course 1"
When I click on "Edit settings" "link" in the "Administration" "block"
|
| After | Scenario: Going to course settings
When I log in as "teacher1"
And I am on "Course 1" course homepage
When I navigate to "Edit settings" in current page administration
|
Why did this change?
The boost theme changes how navigation works and the new steps are compatible with boost and bootstrap based themes.
Note: since 4.0 Edit Settings has been changed into Settings. Refs: MDL-72093.
Summary
| Previous step/s: | And I navigate to "Participants" node in "My courses > C1" And I navigate to "Site blogs" node in "Site pages" |
| New step/s | And I navigate to course participants |
| Backported to: | Moodle 3.2.1, 3.1.4 and up. |
| Before | Scenario: Going to course settings
When I log in as "student1"
And I follow "Course 1"
And I navigate to "Participants" node in "Current course > C1"
|
| After | Scenario: Going to course participants
When I log in as "student1"
And I follow "Course 1"
And I navigate to course participants
|
Why did this change?
The boost theme changes how navigation works and the new steps are compatible with boost and bootstrap based themes.
Moodle 3.1
Behat migration from 2.5 to 3.x
Behat 3 brings a lot of extensibility and modularity but there are compatibility changes for running tests and writing step definitions. See Acceptance testing/Migrating from Behat 2.5 to 3.x in Moodle for fully details when coming from earlier versions of Moodle.
