$Id: Changes,v 1.83 2003/09/05 20:06:12 m_ilya Exp $

Revision history for Perl module HTTP::WebTest.

2.04 Fri Sep 5 2003

BUG FIXES:

• ReportPlugin.pm had a bug that it sended out email report even if mail parameter was set to "errors" and all tests passed. Thanks to Naoki Shima for a patch.

2.03 Mon Jul 14 2003

ENHANCEMENTS

• New test parameters 'mail_success_subject' and 'mail_failure_subject' to redefine default value of Subject field in test report emails. Based on patch by Amit Kaul.

BUG FIXES:

• HTTP::WebTest used to mangle test URLs like 'http://website.com?http://website2.com?var=val' by URL escaping everything after the first question mark. Now it does modify test URL unless it is doing GET request and test parameter 'params' is specified in a test specification. Thanks to Brian Webb for a bugreport.

2.02 Mon Mar 24 2003

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed a bug when test reports were not send if multiple email addresses were specified as test report recipients (test parameter 'mail_addresses'). Thanks to Amit Kaul for a bugreport and a patch.
• New versions of LWP add Client-Peer header in all responses what breaks one of tests in the self-testing suite. This test was supposed to be fixed by the previous release but apparently it wasn't.

2.01 Sun Mar 2 2003

ENHANCEMENTS

• Port self-testing suite from Test to Test::More.
• HTTP::WebTest allows to specify non-default parser for wtscript files.
• Now HTTP::WebTest::Parser can generate wtscript files from test parameters.

DEPRECATIONS

• Subroutines 'start_webserver' and 'stop_webserver' was moved from HTTP::WebTest::SelfTest to HTTP::WebTest::Utils. They still can be exported from HTTP::WebTest::SelfTest but their usage from this module is deprecated.

BUG FIXES:

• New versions of LWP add Client-Peer header in all responses what breaks one of tests in the self-testing suite. This test is fixed so it should pass ok with both new and old versions of LWP. Thanks to Johannes la Poutre for bug report.
• Test in the self-testing suite for 'timeout' parameter was buggy and could fail on some machines. Thanks to Johannes la Poutre for bug report.
• HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::HarnessReport produced a report output on STDERR what was adding some noise in 'make test' output when being used in Test::Harness-style test suites.

2.00 Sat Dec 14 2002

ENHANCEMENTS

• Allow plugins to insert tests into the test queue during test sequence runtime. Inspired by Paul Hamingson's patch.
• New core test parameter 'relative_urls' which enables HTTP-WebTest to use relative URLs in tests.
• New core test parameter 'timeout' which allows to control user agent timeout settings while running test sequence.
• Moved self-test suite support code into module HTTP::WebTest::SelfTest to allow reusing it in self-test suites for plugins maintained outside of HTTP-WebTest.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

• HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::Apache plugin have been removed from HTTP::WebTest and will be released as independent CPAN module. It will no longer be loaded by default even if it is available.
• Renamed all last_xxx methods to current_xxx since the latest naming schema is less confusing.
• HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::HarnessReport is rewritten using Test::Builder. As a side effect you can now freely intermix HTTP::WebTest based tests with tests written using other testing libraries like Test::More or Test::Differences. Unfortunately this change breaks existing test scripts which were using HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::HarnessReport because now number of tests in test scripts should be declared explictly with 'use Test::More plan => NN' or 'use Test::More qw(no_plan)'.

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed some minor documentation bugs. Thanks to William McKee.
• Allow to use $webtest->last_xxx method calls after running test sequence with $webtest->run_tests. Thanks to Kevin Baker for patch.

1.99_09 Thu Aug 22 2002

ENHANCEMENTS

• New core test parameter 'status_code' which allows to test HTTP responses for non-OK (200) status codes. Thanks to Paul Hamingson for implementation.
• New core test parameter 'handle_redirects' which allows to disable optionally automatic handling of redirects by HTTP-WebTest.
• New test parameter 'form_name' in HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::Click plugin. Thanks to Paul Hamingson for patch.
• Test parameter 'click_button' in HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::Click plugin now supports image buttons (i.e. <input type="image" ...>). Thanks to Paul Hamingson for patch.
• Added two test parameters 'on_start' and 'on_finish' to HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::Hook plugin.
• Extended example 'User-Defined Tests' in Cookbook. Suggested by William McKee.

BUG FIXES:

• Previously comments inside of list parameters in wtscript files were not allowed. Reported by William McKee.
• Fixed 'make test' failure on Perl 5.8.0.

1.99_08 Wed Jul 31 2002

ENHANCEMENTS

• New plugin HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::Delay by Duncan Cameron.
• License change: previously HTTP-WebTest have been licensed under terms of Artistic license. Starting from this release HTTP-WebTest is dual licensed under terms of GPL/Artistic licenses like Perl itself.
• Docs are edited for style and grammar. Thanks to Richard Anderson.
• Parser of wtscript files supports nested lists as values for list parameters.
• 'cookies' parameter supports new named style of cookie specifications. See HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::Cookies for details.
• File upload tests are supported now.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

• HTTP-WebTest now uses HTTP::WebTest::Request instead of HTTP::Request. It is inherited from HTTP::Request and supports notion of query parameters. This change simplifies writting plugins than may need to set or change query parameters. However existing plugins which set query parameters using HTTP::Request's methods 'content' and 'uri' are likely to be broken by this change. If you use such plugins then modify them to use HTTP::WebTest::Request's method 'params'.

DEPRECATIONS

• Parameter 'cookie' is deprecated. Use 'cookies' intead of it.
• Old style of cookie specifications with 'cookies' parameter is deprecated.

BUG FIXES:

• HTTP-WebTest's default report plugin doesn't outputs cookies, headers and web page itself when any of 'show_xxx' parameters are on but such output is prohibited by test parameter 'terse'. Reported by William McKee.
• Put Algorithm::Diff back into PREREQ_PM in Makefile.PL. It fixes problems with automated testing of HTTP-WebTest by CPAN and CPANPLUS.

1.99_07 Sun Jun 16 2002

ENHANCEMENTS

• Non-core test parameters are included in POD documentation in HTTP::WebTest.
• Added Bundle::HTTP::WebTest file which has list of all dependanices including optional.
• $webtest->run_wtscript accepts wtscript passed as string.
• Parser for wtscript files is rewritten. It doesn't use Parse::RecDescent anymore. New parser is faster and provides better error diagnostics for parse errors.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

• Changed syntax of wtscript files. Parser of wtscript files expands Perl variables in double quoted strings.

1.99_06 Sun May 12 2002

ENHANCEMENTS

• New core test parameter 'http_headers'. Allows to add additional HTTP headers to HTTP request or to override default HTTP headers in HTTP request. Thanks to Duncan Cameron for patch.
• New plugin HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::Click. This plugin allows to use names of links and button on HTML pages to build test requests.

BUG FIXES:

• Set Content-type to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' for POST. Fixed for second time. Apparently code to do this was lost during HTTP-WebTest rewrite. Thanks to Duncan Cameron for patch.

1.99_05 Mon Apr 8 2002

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed bug in HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::check_list. It affected test parameter 'mail_addresses'. Thanks to Duncan Cameron for patch.
• Fixed bug in HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::HarnessReport. This report plugin printed 'ok' even for failed tests. Thanks to Martin Langhoff for patch.
• Updated email address of Richard Anderson in POD docs and in Makefile.PL.

1.99_04 Sun Feb 17 2002

ENHANCEMENTS

• Improve syntax error reporting in parser of wtscript files.
• Support for embeded Perl in wtscript files.
• Added test parameters 'user_agent' and 'show_headers'. Thanks to Markus Kucborski for patch.
• Updated docs on format of wtscript files. Thanks to Richard Anderson.
• HTTP-WebTest does follow redirects after POST now. Note that it breaks RFC but actually it is semi-standart behaviour of all browsers. Thanks to Thieme Geoff for bugging me about it :)
• Added non-core plugin HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::Hooks which defines two new test parameters: 'on_request' and 'on_response'.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

• Test parameters validation API have been changed. All plugins have been fixed to conform new API. This change is required for proper support of embeded Perl in wtscript files.
• Changed syntax of wtscript files. Speaking more precisely rules for test parameters value quoting have been changed to be more Perl alike. It means that value of param should be written either as

value - any string without special chars like => or ). It is treated in same way as in old HTTP::WebTest

"value" - usual Perl string quoting rules apply (i.e sequences like \n, \r, etc are treated as special and " can be escaped with \"). It is new in HTTP::WebTest.

'value' - usual Perl string quoting rules apply (i.e sequences like \n is not tread as special but ' can be escaped with \'). This change breaks previosly allowed ''value'' style for escaping quote characters.

Also Perl expression in curly brackets can be specified instead of test parameter value. Like

url = { "http://" . 'somehost.com' }

1.99_03 Mon Jan 28 2002

• Numerous documentation fixes. Thanks to Richard Anderson for reviewing and correcting POD docs.
• Renamed 'show_cookie' test parameter to 'show_cookies' as it was in HTTP-WebTest 1.xx.
• Added 'default_report' test parameter which can be used to disable test report output from default report plugin. It can be useful if it is desired to use another report plugin for test output.
• Added report plugin HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::TestHarness which provides report output compatible with Test::Harness.
• Renamed method HTTP::WebTest::validate_test to HTTP::WebTest::validate_params. Make it validate hash with test parameters instead of test object.
• Now HTTP::WebTest does validate global test parameters.
• Names of tests specified in wtscript files was ignored. It is fixed now.
• Added some content to HTTP::WebTest::Cookbook.
• wt program will read test specification from standart input if no wtscript filenames were specified as its arguments.

1.99_02 Fri Jan 18 2002

• Moved autogenerated documentation on general module usage into HTTP::WebTest. Moved code and API documentation from HTTP::WebTest into HTTP::WebTest::API. Suggested by Richard Anderson <richard@richard-anderson.org>.
• Regenerate all autogenerated documentation before creation of distribution. Don't create it during module build and installation stage (i.e. perl Makefile.PL; make; make install). Suggested by Richard Anderson <richard@richard-anderson.org>.
• Numerous documentation fixes.

1.99_01 Sun Jan 13 2002

• Added support for third party plugins. Added documentation on writting plugins.
• Wtscript parser does check syntax of wtscript files.
• Bug fixes

1.99_00 Mon Jan 6 2002

• Major rewrite of module. The aim of this rewrite is plugin based architecture which allows to extend module functionality with plugins.

1.07 Tue Nov 20 2001

• HTTP::WebTest now uses Config.pm to find correct shebang string for script 'wt'. It should correctly set path to perl interpreter even if perl is installed in non-standart place.
• Added test parameter mail_from which allows to set From: header in report e-mails. Thanks Joe Germuska <Joe.Germuska@JGSullivan.com> for the patch.

1.06 Sat Aug 11 2001

• Some files required for local web files testing mode were missing in last HTTP-WebTest distributions.

1.05 Wed Aug 8 2001

• Installation of http-webtest directory is optional now for Unix platforms. It is completely disabled on Win32 platform.
• Mentioned in docs that this module should work on Win32 platform. Bug reports from this platform would be appreciated.
• Do not use environment variable WEBTEST_LIB in 'wt' script. It seems to be needed only for debuging purposes and it was a source of many Perl warnings if it was not defined.
• Sample Apache config file bundled with this module now contains directives to disable usage of apache access and resource config files.
• HTTP::WebTest now uses File::Temp module for secure creation of temporary directories.
• Removed section 'CHANGES' from HTTP::WebTest POD docs since it became too long. Anybody interested in changes should consult this file.

1.04 Mon Jul 16 2001

• Added PREREQ_PM entry into Makefile.PL. Thanks Britton <fsblk@aurora.uaf.edu> for suggesting this.
• Fixed bug: test parameters accept_cookies and send_cookies did not affected transmission and receipt of cookies at all.

1.03 Wed Jul 4 2001

• First release by new maintainer.
• Fixed bug with passing form params with POST requests.

1.02 Tue Jun 26 2001

• OWNERSHIP OF HTTP:WebTest HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED FROM Richard Anderson <Richard.Anderson@raycosoft.com> TO Ilya Martynov <ilya@martynov.org>. PLEASE DIRECT ALL QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS TO Ilya Martynov. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
• Change succeed/fail count so that a successful fetch of a page counts as a successful test. (An unsuccessful fetch still counts as a failed test.)
• Removed extraneous call to extract_cookies from get_response.

1.01 Wed Jun 14 2001

• Modified cookies parameter to allow less than 10 elements. (Thanks to Thomas Ayles <tayles@arsdigita.com> for suggesting this.)
• Fixed bug that caused get_response() to fail to capture all cookies returned by the webserver during redirects. Added subclass HTTP::WebTest::Cookies (a modified HTTP::Cookies class). (Thanks to Ilya Martynov <ilya@martynov.org> for this fix.)
• Modified web server response time measurement to be more accurate.
• Exported run_web_test method so it can be called directly.

1.00 Wed Jun 06 2001

• Added max_rtime and min_rtime parameters to test web server response time. The perl module Time::HiRes is now a prerequisite to install HTTP::WebTest. (This code was a collaborative effort by the author and Michael Blakeley <mike@blakeley.com>.)
• Added pauth parameter for proxy authorization. (This code was a collaborative effort by the author and Darren Fulton <Darren.Fulton@team.telstra.com>.)
• Changed max_bytes and min_bytes paramters from test block parameters to global and/or test block parameters.
• Made format of output report more robust for max_bytes and min_bytes parameters.

0.30 Mon Mar 05 2001

• Fixed ./t/*.t files so that "make test" runs correctly on Solaris. (Replaced export WEBTEST_LIB= with WEBTEST_LIB= ; export WEBTEST_LIB.) (Thanks to M. Simon Cavalletto <simonm@evolution.com> for reporting this bug.)
• Improved clarity of documentation and program output.

0.20 Mon Feb 26 2001

• Fixed bug that caused module to abort when a HTTP-Redirect (302) is sent back with a relative URL. Thanks to Andre Machowiak <ama@ision.net> for this fix.
• Set Content-type to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' for POST. Thanks to Andre Machowiak <ama@ision.net> for this fix.
• Modified Makefile.PL to get path of perl using the which command and create the wt script with this path in the she-bang line (#!). (Thanks to Britton <fsblk@aurora.uaf.edu> for reporting this bug.)
• Modified "make test" tests to write output to files in the t subdirectory.

0.01 Sat Dec 9 2000

• Original version; created by h2xs 1.19.
• First release to CPAN by Richard Anderson <Richard.Anderson@raycosoft.com>.