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Nywlem

@Nywlem

Hello All, has anyone tried executing the tests on the IE11

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Andreas Worm

@globalworming

Hey all

I am currently rebuilding the serenity html report to a more "modern" single page application. I would appreciate your feedback on the demo https://lemon-desert-049177e03.azurestaticapps.net/

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Jan Molak

@jan-molak

Hey folks, 2.18.0 is out!

Actors can be used in beforeAll/afterAll-style hooks of your favourite test framework.
This means that you can, for example, have an actor that spins up a server that keeps running throughout the entire test suite execution.

You can also share notes between actors instantiated in beforeAll, before and within a test method using the ability to TakeNotes.usingASharedNotepad

Also, any Discardable abilities that an actor has been given will be discarded:

after test scenario, if the actor was instantiated in beforeEach-style hook or within a scenario
after test run is finished, if the actor was instantiated in beforeAll-style hook

This release also removes several deprecated APIs:

Serenity#setTheStage(...stageCrewMembers: StageCrewMember[]): void - use configure
Serenity#callToStageFor(actors: Cast): Stage - use engage
Stage#callFor(actors: Cast): Stage - use actorCalled and [actorInTheSpotlight]https://serenity-js.org/modules/core/function/index.html#static-function-actorInTheSpotlight()
Actor.named(name: string): Actor - use actorCalled

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

And here's a little example of how the new features can be used in practice:

describe('Serenity/JS 2.18.0', () => {
    before(() =>
        actorCalled('Alice')
            .whoCan(
                ManageALocalServer.runningAHttpListener(app),
                TakeNotes.usingASharedNotepad(),
            )
            .attemptsTo(
                StartLocalServer.onRandomPort(),
                TakeNote.of(LocalServer.url())
            ));

    beforeEach(() =>
        actorCalled('Bob')
            .whoCan(
                BrowseTheWeb.using(protractor.browser),
                TakeNotes.usingASharedNotepad(),
            ));

    it(`lets actors perform in “before all” hooks and share notes across test scenarios`, () =>
        actorCalled('Bob').attemptsTo(
            Navigate.to(Note.of(LocalServer.url()))
            // ...
        ));
});

As always, feedback welcome :-)

Thimmaraju G

@thimmaraju418_twitter

Hi Jan

elem.getCssValue("background-color")

How can achieve above statement in serenity js

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rakeshnambiar

@rakeshnambiar

Hello, before migrating to V2 I just tried the template project https://github.com/serenity-js/serenity-js-cucumber-protractor-template but unfortunately, the json report is not generated. I am on Win10 OS and using the Node v13.14.0 & JAVA 11.0.9

I can see the target set correctly on the protractor config ArtifactArchiver.storingArtifactsAt('./target/site/serenity')

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

Have you made any changes to the project?

rakeshnambiar

@rakeshnambiar

It's a Cucumber runner

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

Ok, I'd also suggest using a long term support version of node, latest one is 14

Version 13 (as well as any other odd version) is experimental, so I wouldn't recommend it for production

rakeshnambiar

@rakeshnambiar

I used the latest version before then downgraded to 13 to make-sure the node latest version is not creating the issue

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

☺️

rakeshnambiar

@rakeshnambiar

switch back to node v14.2.0 and npm 6.14.4 but same result

WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred - Is this common ?

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

I can reproduce the issue on Win 10, let me have a look at what's going on

rakeshnambiar

@rakeshnambiar

thanks a lot @jan-molak

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

Could you clone the latest version and re-test, please?

(looks like dependabot has updated package.json but not package-lock.json in the template project, so serenity-bdd reporter was pulling in an older version of core)

rakeshnambiar

@rakeshnambiar

sure, thanks for solving it. I will try and let you know

It looks perfect now

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

let me know how it goes with migrating to S/JS 2 - we have an upgrade guide at https://serenity-js.org/handbook/integration/upgrading-to-serenity-js-2.html

rakeshnambiar

@rakeshnambiar

Hi @jan-molak into the template project I just copy pasted the javascript - pageobject model based legacy script and ended up with the error Error: Error: Cannot find module 'unicode-13.0.0/Binary_Property/ID_Start/code-points.js' - Is this somehow connected to the serenityJS framework?

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Jan Molak

@jan-molak

Hey folks! Serenity/JS 2.19 adds two new interfaces to Abilities: Initialisable and Discardable.

Any custom Abilities you create that implement those interfaces will be initialised by Serenity/JS before the actor starts to perform their activities, and discarded when the scenario finishes (if the actor was instantiated in scenario scope), or when the entire test run finishes (if the actor was initialised in beforeAll-style hook).

Here's an example of using those new features to make a Serenity/JS test interact with a PostgreSQL DB - https://serenity-js.org/modules/core/class/src/screenplay/Ability.ts~Ability.html

Take this new version for a spin and let me know what you think :-) I can't wait to see what you integrate your tests with!

Eric Tavela

@etavela

Hi folks - new supporter here migrating over from the Java world of Serenity BDD. Very thankful this project exists - I've just started incorporating it as my REST integration test step in a Kubernetes microservice build pipeline.

I wanted to ask what do you find is the best approach to pass in the base URL for REST tests in this kind of scenario where the URL is not known ahead of time? For now I'm going to extract it from an environment variable and default to localhost:8080 but wondered if there was more sophisticated handling for REST defaults, etc. Thanks!

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

Hi @etavela, welcome!

Is this a REST-only scenario? Or are you interacting with some UI too?

Eric Tavela

@etavela

Thanks! Yeah, REST only in this case. I'll be setting up web-based functional tests down the road, but this scenario is per-service and REST only.

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

Cool! Make sure to check out the REST testing example in the main repo.

Regarding your question, there are several ways to configure the CallAnApi ability.

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Andreas Worm

@globalworming

Nooo @etavela how could you abondon us! Traitor! 😁 Seriously though, kudos to @jan-molak for handling the JS side of serenity so well

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Nywlem

@Nywlem

Hello Folks, I have an issue with IE11 browser alone, where the Navigate.to(url) does not work in the second iteration

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Josh McVey

@y3rsh_gitlab

Hello, is there an easy way to grab the name of the current scenario/scenario outline from cucumber in the middle of a test?

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

What are you trying to do? @y3rsh_gitlab

Josh McVey

@y3rsh_gitlab

I am pushing data to a Database and I would like to record which test (scenario) called the interaction as the scenario name is a unique identifier for us

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

You could get it in a Before hook and then make the actor take a note of it, perhaps?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51746919/how-to-get-scenario-name-from-cucumber-js

Another option is to write a custom StageCrewMember and get scenario name from Serenity events

Josh McVey

@y3rsh_gitlab

Awesome ty, got me going in the right direction. I was able to get what I wanted in the hooks Before and take note of it.
I typed this below so it may be missing something but for posterity:

const ScenarioName = (scenario: HookScenarioResult) =>
    Question.about('The name of the scenario', actor => scenario.pickle.name);

Before( scenario => actorCalled('User').attemptsTo(
    MaximizeBrowser.start(),
    TakeNote.of(ScenarioName(scenario)).as('scenarioName'),
));

// code in an async interaction gets the name to use
const scenarioName: string = await actorCalled('User').answer(Note.of('scenarioName'));

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

Nice one!

By the way, there's a built in interaction to resize browser window if you need it https://serenity-js.org/modules/protractor/class/src/screenplay/interactions/ResizeBrowserWindow.ts~ResizeBrowserWindow.html

Jan Molak

@jan-molak

Hey folks! I've added a neat little Question in version 2.19.5, it's called q and works just like string templates, but with other Serenity/JS questions:

 import { q, actorCalled } from '@serenity-js/core';
 import { Send, DeleteRequest } from '@serenity-js/rest';

 actorCalled('Alice').attemptsTo(
     Send.a(DeleteRequest.to(
         q `/articles/${ Text.of(Article.id()) }`  
     ))
 )

Thoughts and feedback welcome!

Also, @cnishina (Angular/Protractor team) will be giving an update on some cool new features coming up for Protractor on his Twitch channel on the 18th of December - twitch.tv/cnishina

eyesopen

@eyesopen

Hi, is there a #result or something that can be used in the question string to display value of the question? i can only see #actor... i am trying to write a question that can be chained like tasks

class DateText extends Question {
  static of(target) {
    return new DateText(target);
  }

  as(dateFormat) {
    this.dateFormat = dateFormat;
    return this;
  }

  constructor(target) {
    super();
    this.target = target;
  }

  async performAs(actor) {
    /*more fancy stuff here*/
    const result = '2020/12/15';
    return result;
  }

}

but without toString method this throws and exception in formatter. If i return const string then it is being used in the calling Ensure as value...

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