CHANGELOG-2.1.md

2.1.11

• [Yii1] Improved Yii connector. AR metadata is cleaned up between requests. regenerateId of session is disabled.
• [REST][InnerBrowser] redirect is not triggered when Location header is set but response code is not 3xx. By @Naktibalda. Fixes #3171.
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] checkboxes can be located by label by @dizzy7. See #3237
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] field can be matched by its trimmed label value. See #3209. By @dizzy7
• [WebDriver] fixed URL matching in WebDriver::seeLink
• [WebDriver][InnerBrowser] Improved error messages of seeLink and dontSeeLink

2.1.10

• PHPUnit version locked to <5.4
• [Db] Added missing support for LIKE condition to SqlSrv driver

2.1.9

• PHPUnit 5.4 compatibility for creating mocks using Codeception\Util\Stub by @davertmik. See #3093 and #3080
• Updated dependencies to support Symfony 3.1
• [Laravel5] Fixed issue where non-existing services were called in _before and _after methods. See #3028.
• Fix self-update command to update only to stable versions by @MAXakaWIZARD
• Added settings: backup_global to config, to disable backup_global option of PHPUnit by @mkeasling. See #3045. Fixes #3044
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] see matches UTF-8 text case-insensitively by @Naktibalda. Fixes #3114
• Fixed page object generation with namespaces by @eugene-manuilov and @Naktibalda. See #3126 Fixes #3012
• --steps will not disable code coverage. By @Naktibalda. Fixes #2620
• Suppress console coverage report with --quiet by @EspadaV8. See #2370
• Improved multibyte output in console by @kt81. See #3130
• [Lumen] Fixed: initializeLumen() method has been called twice on start by @kt81. See #3124 #2607
• [Db] Allow INT Parameter SQL Binding by @davidcochrum . Fixes #3118
• [Db] Support LIKE conditions in assertions.
• [Db] Improved regex for parsing comments by @dima-stefantsov. See #3138
• [Dbh] Fix seeInDatabase and dontSeeInDatabase with empty criteria. Closes #3116
• [Symfony] Improve fail messages on seeInCurrentRoute and seeCurrentRouteIs
• [Symfony] Improve route comparison on seeInCurrentRoute and seeCurrentRouteIs
• [WebDriver] multi session testing with friends improved by @eXorus. Webdriver sessions are finished correctly; leave() method added to Friend class. See #3068
• [PhpBrowser] added handler and middleware config options to customize Guzzle handlers and middleware
• Added full support of phpunit-bridge features.
• [Laravel] Fixed issue where non-existing services were called in _before and _after methods. See #3028.
• [WebDriver] fixed using saveSessionSnapshot with codecoverage. Closes #2923
• [ZF2] create new instance of Application for each request

2.1.8

• Util\Locator added methods to create locators to match element at their position: elementAt, firstElement, lastElement
• [Symfony] Refactor to unify service retrieval, avoid memleaks and reduce memory footprint. Closes #2938 and #2954.
• [Symfony] New optoin rebootable_client that reboots client's kernel before each request.
• [WebDriver] fixed seeInField for textarea with whitespaces before and after string. Closes #2921
• [Symfony] Deprecated grabServiceFromContainer use grabService instead. For consistency with other frameworks.
• [Asserts] More assert* methods from PHPUnit added
• [Asserts] Added expectException method
• codecept self-update works with proxy by @gr1ev0us
• [Phalcon1 add params support for method amOnRoute by @MelnykDmitro

2.1.7

• PHPUnit 5.x support
• Global Bootstrap, Suite Bootstrap, Module Initialization happens before test loading. Fixes issues of autoloading TestCase classes introduced in 2.1.5, see #2872
• Added option to skip PHP files validation in codeception.yml - settings: lint: false
• [Facebook] Updated to facebook/php-sdk-v4 version 5 by @orhan-swe and @tigerseo #2828 #2415
• [WebDriver] Added scrollTo action by @javigomez and @davertmik #2844
• Fix encoding problems in PHP prior to 5.6 by @pejaycz. See #2831
• [Queue] Fixed clearQueue for AmazonSQS by @mikitu #2805
• [Db] Fixed loading files in Sqlite @mcustiel See #2812
• [PhpBrowser] amHttpAuthenticated allows null, null as parameters to unset authentication. #2896
• Util\Locator added contains method to easily locate any element containing a text.
• [Laravel5] Added guard parameters to seeAuthentication and dontSeeAuthentication methods. By @janhenkgerritsen. See #2876
• [Laravel5] Added functionality to disable/enable Laravel's exception handling. By @janhenkgerritsen. See #2763
• [Laravel5] Authentication now persists between requests when calling amLoggedAs with an instance of Authenticable. See #2795
• [REST] Fixed dontSeeXmlResponseMatchesXpath method #2825 by @mangust404
• [ZF2] Fixed POST parameters #2814 by @Naktibalda
• [ZF1] Call Zend_Registry::_unsetInstance in _after #2863 by @Naktibalda

2.1.6

• Starting from 2.1.6 you can download PHP 5.4 compatible phar build at http://codeception.com/php54/codecept.phar by @Naktibalda. See installation guide.
• [WebDriver] Fixed uploading files with PhantomJS #1823 by @DavertMik and @Naktibalda. Please specify your browser name as phantom in WebDriver config in order to use PhantomJS-specific hooks.
• Fixed parsing PHP files with spaces in name on PHP<7 by @acuthbert. Fixes #2647
• [WebDriver] Fixed proxy error when using with Chrome #2651 by @vaikla
• [Laravel5] Allow Laravel5 application URL to be set through config. By @gmhenderson. See #2676
• [Laravel5] Mocked events should also return an array. Fix by @devinfd
• Fixed using codecoverage with environments #2634
• Various HHVM improvements by @Naktibalda, for instance, Asserts module issues has been fixed.
• [REST] Fixes #2775 seeResponseJsonMatchesXpath when JSON contains ampersand. By @Naktibalda.
• [Filesystem] Added seeNumberNewLines method to check the number of new lines in opened file. By @sergeyklay
• [Symfony2] Added seeCurrentRouteMatches action by @laszlo-karpati See #2665
• [Sequence] Added sqs function to generate unique sequences per suite. #2766 by @johnatannvmd
• [FTP] Fixed various bugs by @k-serenade. See #2755
• [Frameworks][PhpBrowser] Fixed #2733: seeOptionIsSelected sees first option as selected if none is selected by @Naktibalda
• [Symfony2] Removed 'localhost' from getInternalDomains by @Naktibalda. Fixed #2717
• Bugfix for using groups by directory on Windows by @tortuetorche See #2550 and #2551
• [REST] Fixed failed message for seeHttpHeader and dontSeeHttpHeader from null to expected value #2697 by @zondor
• [REST] Added methods to control redirect: stopFollowingRedirects and startFollowingRedirects by @brutuscat
• [Recorder Extension] Added animate_slides config to disable left-right sliding animation between screenshots by @vml-rmott

2.1.5

• PHP7 support
• Symfony3 support
• [ZendExpressive] module added by @Naktibalda
• [Frameworks] Internal Domains: Framework modules now throw an ExternalUrlException when a test tries to open a URL that is not handled by the framework, i.e. an external URL. See #2396
• Syntax check for tests. If PHP7 is used, ParseException handles syntax error, otherwise linting happens with php -l. @davertmik
• Fixed Cest generation to not include "use" statements if no namespaces set
• [REST] Modified JsonArray::sequentialArrayIntersect to return complete matches only by @Naktibalda. Fixes #2635
• [REST] Fixes validation of several types with filters. See #2581 By @davertmik
• [REST] JsonType improved URL filter to use filter_var($value, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)
• [REST] JsonType to support collections: all items in an array will be validates against JsonType. By @davertmik
• [REST] Various fixes to JsonType: #2555 #2548 #2542
• [REST] Hides binary request data in debug by @codemedic. Fixed #1884, See #2552
• [WebDriver] Allow appendField to work with content editable div by @nsanden #2588
• [WebDriver] Allows adding ssl proxy settings by @mjntan35.
• [Symfony2] Config option cache_router added (disabled by default) by @raistlin.
• [Doctrine] Fixed #2060: Too many connections error by @dranzd
• [Symfony2] services part added to allow access Symfony DIC while wokring with WebDriver or PhpBrowser by @laszlo-karpati See #2629
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser] Unified setCookie "expires" param name by @davertmik. See #2582
• [Memcache] add adaptive close call on _after by @pfz. See #2572
• [Symfony2] Move kernel booting and container set up into _initialize() method by @Franua #2491
• [WebDriver] Fixed seeInField for textareas by @nsanden
• [Yii2][REST] Fixed using Yii2 as dependency for REST by @Naktibalda. See #2562
• [Laravel5] Removed enableMiddleware and enableEvents methods. See #2602. By @janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel] Refactored modules. See #2602. By @janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Fix bug for seeCurrentRouteIs when routes don't match. See #2593. By @maddhatter
• [PhpBrowser] Set curl options for Guzzle6 correctly. See #2533. By @Naktibalda
• Fixed usage of GroupObject by unit tests. GroupObjects can skip tests by @davetmik. See #2617

2.1.4

• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Added _getResponseContent hidden method. By @Naktibalda
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Added moveBack method. By @Naktibalda
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Added seeInSource, dontSeeInSource methods to check raw HTML instead of stripped text in see/dontSee. By @zbateson in #2465
• [WebDriver] print Selenium WebDriver logs on failure or manually with debugWebDriverLogs in debug mode. Config option debug_log_entries added. See #2471 By @MasonM and @DavertMik.
• [ZF2] grabs service from container without reinitializing it. Fixes #2519 where Doctrine2 gets different instances of the entity manager everytime grabServiceFromContainer is called. By @dranzd
• [REST] fixed usage of JsonArray and json_last_error_msg function on PHP 5.4. See #2535. By @Naktibalda
• [REST] seeResponseIsJsonType can now validate emails with string:email definition. By @DavertMik
• [REST] seeResponseIsJsonType: string|null as well as null|string can be used to match null type. #2522 #2500 By @vslovik
• [REST] REST methods can be used to inspect result of the last request made by PhpBrowser or framework module. see #2507. By @Naktibalda
• [Silex] Doctrine provider added. Doctrine2 module can be connected to Silex app with depends: Silex in config. By @arduanov #2503
• [Laravel5] Removed expectEvents and added seeEventTriggered and dontSeeEventTriggered. By @janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Fixed fatal error in seeCurrentRouteIs and seeCurrentActionIs methods. See #2517. By @janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Improved the error messages for several methods. See #2476. By @janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Improved form error methods. See #2432. By @janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Added wrapper methods for Laravel 5 model factories. See #2442. By @janhenkgerritsen
• [Phalcon] Added amOnRoute and seeCurrentRouteIs methods by @sergeyklay
• [Phalcon] Added seeSessionHasValues by @sergeyklay
• [Phalcon] Added getApplication() method by @sergeyklay
• [Symfony2] Sets xdebug.max_nesting_level to 200 only if it is lower. Fixes error hiding #2462 by @mhightower
• [Db] Save the search path when importing Postgres dumps #2441 by @EspadaV8
• [Yii2] Fixed problems with transaction rollbacks when using the cleanup flag. See #2488. By @ivokund
• [Yii2] Clean up previously uploaded files between tests by @tibee
• Actor classes generation improved by @codemedic #2453
• Added support for nested helper by @luka-zitnik #2494
• Make generate:suite respect bootstrap setting in #2512. By @dmitrivereshchagin

2.1.3

• [REST] Added matching data types by with new methods seeResponseMatchesJsonType and dontSeeResponseMatchesJsonType. See #2391
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] added _request and _loadPage hidden API methods for performing arbitrary requests.
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed seeInField, dontSeeInField for disabled fields #2378. See #2414.
• Environment files can now be located in subfolders of tests/_env by @Zifius
• [Symfony2] Fixed issue when accessing profiler when no request has been performed #652.
• [Symfony2] Added amOnRoute and seeCurrentRouteIs methods by @raistlin
• [ZF2] Added amOnRoute and seeCurrentRouteIs methods module, by @Naktibalda
• Fixed issue with trailing slashes in seeCurrentUrlEquals and dontSeeCurrentUrlEquals methods #2324. By @janhenkgerritsen
• Warning is displayed once using unconfigured environment.
• Fixed loading environment configurations for Cept files by @splinter89
• Fixed bootstrap with namespaces to inject namespaced actor classes properly.
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] added hidden _request() method to send requests to backend from Helper classes.
• [Laravel5] Added disableEvents(), enableEvents() and expectEvents() methods. By @janhenkgerritsen
• [Laravel5] Added dontSeeFormErrors() method. By @janhenkgerritsen
• [Db] Deleted Oracle driver (it existed by mistake, the real driver is Oci). By @Naktibalda
• [Db] Implemented getPrimaryKey method for Sqlite, Mysql, Postgresql, Oracle and MsSql. By @Naktibalda
• [Db] Implemented support for composite primary keys and tables without primary keys. By @Naktibalda
• Fixed the scalarizeArray to be aware of NULL fields #2264. By @fbidu
• [Soap] Fixed SOAP module #2296. By @relaxart
• Fixed a bug where blank lines in a groups file would run every test in the project #2297. By @imjoehaines
• [WebDriver] seeNumberOfElements should only count visible elements #2303. By @sascha-egerer
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Verbose output for all HTTP requests. By @Naktibalda
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Throw Codeception\Exception\ExternalUrlException when framework module tries to open an external URL #2328. By @Naktibalda
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Added switchToIframe method. By @Naktibalda
• [Dbh] module deprecated

2.1.2

• Updated to PHPUnit 4.8
• Enhancement: Wildcard includes enabled when testing multiple applications. See #2016 By @nzod
• [Symfony2] fixed Doctrine2 integration: Doctrine transactions will start before each test and rollback afterwards. 2015-08-08
• [Doctrine2] establishing connection and starting transaction is moved to _before. 2015-08-08
• [PhpBrowser] Removed disabled and file fields from form values. By @Naktibalda 2015-08-08
• [ZF2] Added grabServiceFromContainer function. By InVeX 2015-08-08
• [PhpBrowser][Guzzle6] Disabled strict mode of CookieJar #2234 By @Naktibalda 2015-08-04
• [Laravel5] Added disableMiddleware() and enableMiddleware() methods. By @janhenkgerritsen 2015-08-07
• Enhancement: If a specific *ActorActions trait does not exist in tests/_support/_generated directory, it will be created automatically before run.
• Enhancement: do not execute all included suites if you run one specific suite 2015-08-08
• Extension\Recorder navigate over slides with left and right arrow keys, do not create screenshots for comment steps.
• Extension\Recorder generates index html for all saved records.
• Extension\Recorder fixed for creating directories twice. Fixed #2216
• Extension\Logger fixed #2216
• Fixed injection of Helpers into Cest and Test files. See #2222
• Stub::makeEmpty on interfaces works again by @Naktibalda
• Command generate:scenarios fixed for Cest files by @mkudenko See #1962
• [Db] Quoted table name in Db::select, removed identical methods from child classes by @Naktibalda. See #2231
• [WebDriver] added support for running tests on a remote server behind a proxy with http_proxy and http_proxy_port config options by @jdq22 2015-07-29
• [Laravel] Fixed issue with error handling for haveRecord() method in Laravel modules #2217 by @janhenkgerritsen 2015-07-28
• Fixed displayed XML/HTML report path #2187 by @Naktibalda 2015-07-27
• [WebDriver] Fixed waitForElementChange fatal error by @stipsan
• [Db] Enhanced dollar quoting ($$) processing in PostgreSQL driver by @YasserHassan 2015-07-20
• [REST] Created tests for file-upload with REST module. By @Naktibalda 2015-08-08
• [Lumen] Fixed issue where wrong request object was passed to the Lumen application by @janhenkgerritsen 2015-07-18

2.1.1

• [WebDriver] Upgraded to facebook/webdriver 1.0 2015-07-11 WebDriver classes were moved to Facebook\WebDriver namespace. Please take that into account when using WebDriver API directly. Till 2.2 Codeception will keep non-namespaced aliases of WebDriver classes.
• Module Reference now contains documentation for hidden API methods which should be used in Helper classes
• Skipped and Incomplete tests won't fire test.before and test.after events. For instance, WebDriver browser won't be started and Db cleanups won't be executed on incomplete or skipped tests.
• Annotations skip and incomplete enabled in Cest files #2131
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] _findElements($locator) method added to use in Helper classes 2015-07-11 Now you can use $this->getModule('WebDriver')->findElements('.user'); in Helpers to match all elements with user class using WebDriver module
• [PhpBrowser] Fixed amOnUrl method to open absolute URLs.
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fix for fillField using values that contain ampersands by @GawainLynch and @zbateson Issue #2132
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed missing HTTPS when trying to access protected pages #2141

2.1.0

• Recorder extension added. Shows acceptance test progress with a recorded slideshow.
• Updated to Guzzle 6. Codeception can now work both with Guzzle v5 and Guzzle v6. PhpBrowser chooses right connector depending on Guzzle version installed. By @davertmik and @enumag
• Annotations in Cept files. Instead of calling $scenario->skip(), $scenario->group('firefox'), etc, it is recommended to set scenario metadata with annotations // @skip, // @group firefox. Annotations can be parsed from line or block comments. $scenario->skip() and $scenario->incomplete() are still valid and can be executed inside conditional statements:

  if (!extension_loaded('xdebug')) $scenario->skip('Xdebug required')

• PSR-4: all support classes moved to tests/_support by default. Actors, Helpers, PageObjects, StepObjects, GroupObjects to follow PSR-4 naming style. Autoloader implemented by @splinter89.
• Dependency Injection: support classes can be injected into tests. Support classes can be injected into each other too. This happens by implementing method _inject and explicitly specifying class names as parameters. Implemented by @splinter89.
• Actor classes can be extended, their generated parts were moved to special traits in _generated namespace. Each *Tester class can be updated with custom methods.
• Module config simplified: Modules can be configured in enabled section of suite config.
• Conflicts: module can define conflicts with each other by implementing _conflicts method
• Dependencies: module can explicitly define dependencies and expect their injection by implementing _inject and _depends methods and relying on dependency injection container.
• Current modules, environment, and test name can be received in scenario. Example: $scenario->current('env') returns current environment name. Fixes #1251
• Environment Matrix: environments can be merged. Environment configs can be created in tests/_envs, environment generator added. Implemented by By @sjableka. See #1747
• Custom Printers: XML, JSON, TAP, Report printers can be redefined in configuration. See #1425
• [Db] Added reconnect option for long running tests, which will connect to database before the test and disconnect after. By @Naktibalda
• Module parts. Actions of modules can be loaded partially in order to disable actions which are not used in current tests. For instance, disable web actions of framework modules in unit testsing.
• Kohana, Symfony1, Doctrine1 modules considered deprecated and moved to standalone packages.
• shuffle added to settings. Randomizes order of running tests. See #1504
• Console output improved: scenario stack traces contain files and lines of fail.
• [Doctrine2][Symfony2] symfony_em_service config option moved from Doctrine2 to Symfony2 module and renamed to em_service 2015-06-03
• [PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Fixed cloning form nodes Codeception\Lib\InnerBrowser::getFormFromCrawler(): ID XXX already defined 2015-05-13
• [WebDriver] session snapshot implemented, allows to store cookies and load them, i.e., to keep user session between testss.
• [WebDriver][PhpBrowser][Frameworks] Malformed XPath locators wil throw an exception #1441
• MODULE_INIT event is fired before initializing modules #1370
• Graceful tests termination using pcntl_signal. See #1286
• Group classes renamed to GroupObjects; Base GroupObject class renamed to Codeception\GroupObject
• Official extensions moved to ext dir; Base Extension class renamed to Codeception\Extension
• Duplicate environment options won't cause Codeception to run environment tests twice
• [Phalcon1] haveServiceInDi method implemented by @sergeyklay
• [Db] seeNumRecords method added by @sergeyklay