INGenious v3.0.0 – General Availability

Release Notes version 3.0.0 - General Availability

✨ What's New

• Shared Reusable Components — reusable components can now be shared across projects, with dependency tracking, migration support, and confirmation-guarded moves between Project and Shared scope.
• Test Plan Scenario Groups — organize Test Plan scenarios into named, persistent groups with drag-and-drop, plus a new persistent sort order for scenarios and test cases across Test Plan, Project Reusables, and Shared Reusables.
• API Workbench Proxy & Environment Management — per-request proxy configuration, Postman-style curl paste, right-click-to-assertion generation, and full API Environment management.
• Postman & Bruno collection import into INGenious Reusables.
• Per-Step Hard/Soft Assertion Controls — mark individual test steps as hard or soft, with hard failures stopping the current iteration immediately.
• Mobile Object Repository per-platform properties — independent Android/iOS property sets per object, with automatic migration from legacy XML.
• CLI migration tooling — ingenious project upgrade (interactive modernisation wizard) and ingenious project validate (quality dashboard with coverage scoring).
• JSPath locator and Live Playwright Recording — a new JSPath attribute in the Web Object Repository, plus a reworked live-recording hook mechanism.

⚠️ Action Required when Upgrading to 3.0.0

• Back up projects before first open — loading a project automatically and irreversibly migrates Test Cases from CSV to YAML and adds the new Scope field to Test Data.
• Ensure your local development environment is updated to Java 17
• Renaming of Run.bat/command files to ingenious.bat/command introduces a breaking change; update existing scripts, pipelines, and execution commands accordingly.
• For users building the app from the source code, build the ingenious-api module before building and running the IDE.
• Object Repository XMLs will be automatically migrated to YAML. For custom setups, validate converted configurations files accordingly.

🚀 FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

General

• Added inline "+" buttons for quick row/column addition across test steps, test data sheets, settings, and configurations.
• Implemented alphabetical sorting of test scenarios and test cases in the Test Lab.
• Popups now close on Esc keypress.
• Added rename and delete support for Test Case Tags.
• Reorganised the Configurations menu with clearer naming.
• Implemented Validation Error Red-Marking across trees, propagating errors through reusable dependencies.
• Object Repository now auto-selects the correct tab based on project type (Mobile/SAP/Structured-Data).
• Refreshed Workbench branding: redesigned toolbar/menu/dock buttons, larger colored dock tiles, "API Workbench" renamed to "Workbench."
• Improved TM Settings Test Connection button readability when the connection succeeds.
• Added API Workbench "+ New Request" button that creates requests without overwriting the current one.
• Allowed reordering of data tabs.
• Implemented Test Plan Scenario Groups with persistent organization — named group folders, stacked-folder icon, drag-and-drop between groups, and an automatic "Ungrouped" bucket.
• Implemented persistent sort order for scenarios and test cases across Test Plan, Project Reusables, and Shared Reusables, surviving create/delete/rename/drag-and-drop and restarts.
• Added automatic migration of Test Cases from CSV to YAML, and of the new Test Data Scope field, on project load.
• Updated the Dashboard tree model to expand at the Test Release level on load.
• Enhanced the bulk Delete confirmation dialog to support scrolling for large selections of test cases, objects, releases, and test sets.
• Updated the list and display order of test cases in Test Data and Test Plan for improved, consistent usability.
• Corrected the misspelling "Reusabe" to "Reusable" throughout the UI.
• Updadated startup scripts now set -Djdk.internal.httpclient.disableHostnameVerification=true (ingenious.bat/ingenious.command), aligning TLS behavior with Postman/Bruno when SSL verification is disabled elsewhere
• Updated the INGenious sample project to include browser and API testing examples

Reusables / Test Design

• Implemented Shared Reusable Components for cross-project reusables — a dedicated UI section, visual distinction between project-local and shared reusables, shared Object Repository references, confirmation-guarded moves between Project and Shared scope, automatic dependency tracking/validation, and shared test data references with environment-specific data.
• Added a scope selector to the Create Reusable dialog for direct creation into Project or Shared Reusable Components.
• Reference column now auto-populates with a [Project] or [Shared] prefix when creating reusables.
• Extended impact analysis to include Shared Reusable test cases alongside Test Plan and Project Reusable impacts.
• Standardized Reusable Components UI with FXPanelHeader, matching Test Plan and Object Repository styling.
• Renamed the Shared Reusable tree root node to "Shared Reusable Components".
• Added cross-environment datasheet renaming, with a confirmation dialog.
• Ensured Shared Reusables continue to correctly reference and inherit their associated Test Datasheet scope.
• assertVariable can now assert runtime and global variables, not just test data.

Web / Object Repository

• Added setAssertionTimeout action for runtime timeout configuration.
• Implemented auto-save for object properties across all Object Repositories.
• Enhanced Web Object Repository role selection with dynamic filtering based on user-entered text.

Browser / Playwright

• Introduced JSPath as a new locator attribute in the Web Object Repository, integrated with the Engine's AutomationObject for runtime execution and marked [Discouraged] in the UI.
• Implemented Live Playwright Recording with improved hook mechanisms for capturing test steps during execution.

API / Workbench

• Introduced a Proxy Tab in API Workbench with per-request proxy configuration, carried forward when converting a request to a test case.
• Enabled pasting curl commands directly into the API Workbench URL bar (Postman-style), with a shell-aware parser for methods, headers, body, auth, and query params.
• Introduced right-click-to-assertion generation on API responses, auto-building JSON and XPath path assertions.
• Added Postman & Bruno collection import into INGenious Reusables.
• Introduced full API Workbench Environment Management to create, switch, and use environments and environment variables.
• Refactored APIHttpClient.getHttpClient() for proxy and certificate support.
• Converted API Workbench Authorization into a proper addHeader step.
• Strengthened SSL/TLS certificate validation and enhanced credential handling in proxy configuration.
• Implemented color-formatted response payload in the HTML report, with a separate Headers section and copy buttons.
• Bundled API Workbench improvements: fixed duplicate "(Copy) (Copy)" naming, added nested folder creation/deletion, added Delete/Add Request actions within folders, improved moving requests between collections, and mirrored the Bruno/VS Code object-tree click flow.
• Renamed the "⇢ Test" button to "⇢ Automation".

Mobile

• Implemented Mobile Object Repository per-platform (Android/iOS) properties — two independent property lists per object, a platform toggle, runtime platform detection, and automatic migration from legacy XML.
• Added a new Manage Devices tab with categorised LambdaTest capabilities, and a cleaner sectioned capabilities view.
• Renamed "LambdaTest Capabilities" to "LambdaTest Grid Capabilities".
• Unified mobile scroll behavior across Android and iOS.

Framework / CLI

• Introduced Per-Step Hard/Soft Assertion Controls — mark individual test steps as hard or soft assertion via context menu, with hard failures stopping the current iteration immediately.
• Introduced ingenious project upgrade (4-step interactive modernisation wizard) and ingenious project validate (quality dashboard with per-test-case/per-reusable classification and coverage scoring).
• Added CLI override coverage audit with full CLI usage documentation.
• Implemented CLI overrides for all previously-missing prefixes, with typed flags and config prefixes help.
• Added CLI dispatcher routing for object/testset/data to picocli.
• Created a single-source CLI reference document.
• Refined nested loop iteration logic in TestCaseRunner, TestStepRunner, and DataProcessor.
• Improved error handling in TestDataComponent.
• Ensured build and test stability on JDK 26 (documented JaCoCo/JDK 26 incompatibility).
• Improved the Reusable Scenario creation process.
• API jar is now auto-copied to Dist/release/Engine/lib on build.
• Applied Prettier formatting updates across the codebase.
  Reporting
• Implemented an in-page HTML report Console Viewer with a working filter under file://.
• Fixed HTML summary clickable rows (Tabulator v6 compatibility).
• Updated report storage to reference resources in Results/media for reduced disk usage.

🛠️ BUG FIXES

Object Repository / General

• Corrected Object Repository same-name rename being blocked incorrectly; case-only renames now work.
• Fixed the Object Repository "Add Row (+)" button, and restricted it to first-column hover.
• Enhanced Object Repository and Test Data sheet name validation to prevent duplicate names regardless of letter casing.
• Resolved issues with multi-object and multi-page copy-paste/cut-paste in the Object Repository; suffixing now applies only on genuine name collisions.
• Fixed column add/delete behavior in datasheets related to frozen columns.
• Fixed a crash in Test Datasheet renaming and Global Datasheet addition, and resolved general Test Datasheet creation/rename operations.
• Fixed the INGenious Launcher "ghost" menu/submenu remaining open when switching to other applications or interacting/navigating outside it; it now auto-closes.

Reusable Components

• Resolved issues with Test Datasheet references in Reusable Components.
• Fixed the context menu "New Group" option for Reusable Component test cases.
• Corrected Detailed Report cross-iteration reusable expand behavior, including the cross-iteration reusable dropdown in the Detailed HTML report.
• Fixed Test Data Scope being reset or mismatched on project reload when duplicate scenario/test-case names exist; conversions now update Scope explicitly.
• Fixed incorrect reusable-component reference resolution when using Param Loop with reusable components/test data.
• Fixed incorrect test-datasheet resolution when executing test cases that reference reusable components.
• Fixed Test Data sheet name validation to correctly prevent duplicate sheet names.
• Fixed SAP Object copy-paste so paste behavior mirrors standard test-case paste behavior.
• Allowed reuse of deleted scenarios in Project Reusable Components via "Make As TestCase".

Reporting

• Fixed HTML report step details disappearing from reports when Azure DevOps reporting is enabled, caused by AzureTestCaseHandler incorrectly becoming the primary report data source.
• Fixed shared HTML report assets (JS/CSS/fonts) not refreshing after an engine upgrade.

Recorder / Playwright

• Corrected Refactor_Object suffix handling when importing Playwright-recorded scripts.
• Preserved the ;exact modifier during XML-to-YAML Object Repository conversion.
• Resolved an assertURLmatches pattern compile error.
• Fixed the accessibility report failing to load when testAccessibility runs inside a reusable component.
• Fixed Playwright recorder exact-match attributes so live recording and file import produce consistent Object Repository values.
• Fixed overly strict test-case-name validation; names now only need to be unique within the same scenario.
• Added Enter-key support to the Start Recording dialog.
• Fixed an unwanted empty trailing step when the recording browser is closed externally.
• Fixed page/tab switch actions not being captured in multi-tab recording scenarios.
• Fixed iframe element detection during live recording to correctly populate frame-related attributes.
• Fixed Record From Here inserting steps at the start of a test case instead of after the selected step.
• Fixed the Live Recorder overwriting test cases with duplicate names; it now appends a suffix instead.
• Fixed Hard Assertions waiting for a timeout instead of failing immediately.
• Fixed Debug Mode resume behavior for reusable test case breakpoints.

Mobile / LambdaTest

• Added null-safe handling in setLambdaStatus for LambdaTest integration.
• Resolved Manage Devices accordion scroll behavior.
• Fixed platformVersion validation for LambdaTest and non-LambdaTest mobile configurations to accept only valid numeric values.
• Fixed the LambdaTest Remote URL field cursor jumping to the start of the text when typing past the @ symbol.
• Fixed enabling/disabling the LambdaTest option in Manage Devices leaving the Properties table showing empty entries.
• Fixed the mobile Object Repository losing edits when switching between OR tabs mid-edit.

API / Webservice

• Resolved restricted-header handling when pasting curl commands (dropped client-managed headers silently, added defensive fallback in APIHttpClient).
• Fixed API Request → Test Case conversion to correctly transfer username/password for Basic Auth.
• Fixed Bruno importer parsing of URLs containing //.
• Fixed JSON parsing failures for API responses containing a security prefix (e.g. )]}') by stripping the prefix before parsing.
• Updated SSL context settings for webservice actions (community contribution).
• Improved bearer token masking for security (community contribution).
• Fixed the SQL Query Editor error triggered by Beautify or manual line breaks (community contribution).

General / Framework

• Resolved global shortcut keys (Playwright recorder enablement, Run Test, Debug command).
• Fixed File → Restart to properly relaunch INGenious on macOS/Windows/Linux.
• Implemented auto-masking for Remote URL credentials on entry/paste.
• Fixed focus loss on newly created scenarios/test cases (they now remain selected).
• Fixed Test Manager publish report to flow through the Console report (console.txt).
• Resolved Test Case Tags not persisting to YAML across reloads.
• Added missing Web Objects to the sample Tutorial project.
• Corrected the Save button becoming stuck disabled after Alt+Tab despite unsaved changes.
• Added the missing Test Manager option under the TM Settings dropdown.
• Fixed the delete confirmation message for Impacted Assets to show correct notification/confirmation behavior.
• Corrected project validate test-set coverage scoring to score at test-case granularity.
• Restored Synthetic Data actions that had gone missing.
• Fixed a unit test for EnvTest Data cross-environment rename.
• Fixed debug-mode breakpoint behavior inside loops and reusable test cases.
• Fixed remaining CLI --help output inconsistencies across commands.
• Fixed CLI object-repository/test-set command filetypes and file paths, and added a new ORCommand for Object Repository management via CLI.

🔒 Security

• Upgraded Jetty from 9.4.57 to 12.0.38, migrating the IDE's embedded Dashboard server to the Jetty 12 EE8 servlet/WebSocket APIs while retaining the javax.servlet namespace (fixes CVE-2025-5115, CVE-2024-6763, CVE-2026-6790).
• Upgraded Jackson (jackson-core/databind/annotations/dataformat-xml/dataformat-yaml) from 2.15.2 to 2.18.9, fixing async-parser DoS advisories GHSA-72hv-8253-57qq and GHSA-r7wm-3cxj-wff9.
• Upgraded the Appium client from 10.0.0 to 10.1.1, fixing CVE-2026-43910 (SSRF via directConnect).
• Upgraded AssertJ from 3.26.3 to 3.27.7, fixing CVE-2026-24400 (XXE in isXmlEqualTo).
• Upgraded BouncyCastle (bcprov/bcpkix/bcutil-jdk18on, pinned transitively via the IBM MQ client) from 1.83 to 1.85, fixing six CVEs including three Critical-severity issues.
• Restored Har Compare static asset routing after Jetty 12 dropped its "/*" → root context-path normalization.
• Resolved Har Compare static resources 404ing due to Jetty 12's stricter resource-alias checks.
• Fixed Har Compare WebSocket handshake failures by explicitly registering JettyWebSocketServletContainerInitializer.
• Fixed the Dashboard server incorrectly attempting to rebind its port on repeated Har Compare opens, by checking actual Jetty server state instead of thread liveness.
• Hardened the Dashboard server's port availability check against false positives from lingering TIME_WAIT sockets.
• Fixed Har Compare throwing a NullPointerException when config.json was empty or corrupted.

🗑️ REMOVED

• Manage Browser → Emulators is deprecated; existing users should migrate to the Manage Devices tab.

💥 KNOWN ISSUES

• Objects created during live recording may not update correctly in associated test steps when renamed immediately after recording; Workaround: Don't rename immediately. Restart once after recording.