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Fair warning. I'm removing all the deprecated features in AvignonCore as of version 3.1.0. This will be released at the same time as the new version of AvignonIE, which will happen when I can finally work out a decent installation process for it.

The skeleton for an Avignon Test Recorder is available from the CVS repository (in the mis-named module AvignonFirefoxToolbar), but it is currently not suitable for anything except playing with. I'm looking for ideas on how it should work and what you'd like to see in it. (Apart from the obvious: "Implement the Save Button.") Please feel free to make feature requests in the AvignonTestRecorder category.

AvignonIE has been rewritten to work with IE7. It appears to be working correctly, but I still need to regression test against IE6 and figure out a packaging strategy to support the new dependency on .NET 2.0.

AvignonFirefox has now been tested with Firefox 2.0 and appears to work correctly. You'll need the 20060221 version of JSSH, available at http://people.mozilla.com/~davel/jssh/

AvignonFirefox has been tested with FireFox 2.0 and no problems were seen so long as FireFox was configured to allow popups and create them in new windows.

At present AvignonIE is not fully compatable with IE7. In particular, there appears to be issues with file uploads and something in the IEJavaScriptTest (unit test) causes the browser to crash. Other functionality appears to be functional. Until I can work out the compatability issues with IE7, I would recommend not upgrading machines running AvignonIE tests to IE7.

AvignonDB 1.0.0 has been released. It includes the ability to test the data in tables as well as the ability to assert the results from calling stored procedures and the values of out or inout parameters. It also supports testing SYSDATE values.

HTTPUnit will no longer be needed once the next release of AvignonCore comes out. I'm not bothering with a specific release to remove this dependency, however.

AvignonIE unit test coverage data is now available at http://avignon.sourceforge.net/avignon-ie-coverage/

The AvignonIE javadoc is now available online at http://avignon.sourceforge.net/avignon-ie/. This does not include the documentation for the handlers you can use with any browser (see http://avignon.sourceforge.net/avignon-browserhandlers instead), only those that are specific to AvignonIE.

Starting with version 1.2.5 AvignonIE will now support testing file uploads.

The EMMA generated unit test coverage reports for all of the Avignon projects will be published as new code is commited to SourceForge. AvignonCore is first: http://avignon.sourceforge.net/avignon-core-coverage

Version 1.0.5 supports testing JavaScript alert/confirm boxes in many circumstances. It will not work for alert/confirm boxes displayed in the onPageLoad event and other forms of message popups (like onBeforeSubmit events).

The AvignonBrowserHandlers JavaDoc is now available online at http://avignon.sourceforge.net/avignon-browserhandlers/ This includes both the API and the instructions on how to use the tags.

TableAssert now allows the tester to specify an XPath expression defining what to select from a cell for each column of the table. At the present time, this functionality is not included in the AvignonBrowser.jar included in AvignonIE (1.2.4) or AvignonFirefox (1.0.3), you must download AvignonBrowserHandlers.jar separately and replace the jar that comes with the browser implementations. The next versions of AvignonIE & AvignonFirefox will include this functionality by default.

The AvignonCore javadoc (which includes documentation for each of the tags in AvignonCore) is now available online at http://avignon.sourceforge.net/avignon-core/index.html

AvignonFirefox now (version 1.0.4) supports the AssertImage tag.

We've started a mailing list (see https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avignon-general\) to help support the use and promotion of Avignon. Please feel free to use it to ask questions and/or let us know what you think.

AvignonIE now supports the ability to assert that the actual rendering of an image in the browser matches the rendering of an expected PNG/JPG/GIF file. See the AssertImage documentation. AvignonFirefox will add this functionality in due course.

Avignon has now moved to SourceForge.net from its original home at http://www.nolacom.com/avignon. Unfortunately, the project history was lost due to hurricane Katrina, but version 2.0 (including IE browser integration) is now available on SourceForge. Our next major release will concentrate on allowing Avignon to use alternative tag loaders and include a loader for handlers written in .NET and some actual handlers for testing .NET WinForm applications.