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Mobly Release 1.11.1: Support Test Case repeat
and retry
.
New
- Native support for
repeat
andretry
of test cases. - Additional assertion APIs.
android_device
now picks upfastboot
devices if given*
.
Fixes
- Removed the usage of
psutil
in favor of nativePy3
features.
Mobly Release 1.11: Py2 Deprecation and Repeat/Retry Support
This release focuses on code quality improvement, refactoring, and legacy code removal.
Py2-specific workarounds and deprecated APIs are removed in this release. We are also refactoring to use 2-space indentation and unit test system.
New
- Framework support for test case level
repeat
andretry
.
Breaking Changes
- Removal of Py2 support
- Removal of the
monsoon
controller
Fixes
- Various improvements in Android device controller
- More metadata collected for test runs
Mobly Release 1.10.1: Incremental fixes
This release contains minor fixes and improvements.
New
- API for taking screenshots in
AndroidDevice
- Option to change the logging verbosity of the Mobly snippet client. The default logging size is now capped.
Fixes
- Resource leakage in
_print_test_name
. - IDE compatibility.
- Bugs in unit tests.
Mobly Release 1.10: Framework and AndroidDevice
Output Improvements
This is likely the last major release that preserves Py2 compatibility.
New
AndroidDevice
now has a newis_emulator
property.- Better multi-user support in
AndroidDevice
. - Standardized logging and output file names.
- Improvement in
utils.concurrent_exec
. - Support class-based decorator on Mobly test methods.
Breaking Changes
Due to the standardization of output files for both Mobly and AndroidDevice
controller, if you have custom parser of Mobly outputs, you need to adjust
your parsing logic to accommodate the changes.
- Major change in output directory structure #650
- Names of
AndroidDevice
's output files have been standardized #633 - Changed multiple references of
test_bed
totestbed
in code #641
Fixes
AndroidDevice
's service manager behavior for reboot and USB disconnect.
Mobly Release 1.9.1: Documentation Fix
Fix readthedocs documentation bug introduced in 1.9. Strictly documentation fix, no code change.
Mobly Release 1.9: UID Support; AndroidDevice
and General Runner Improvements
New
- Support specifying Unique Identifier (UID) for both static and generated test methods.
Breaking Changes
- Detached logger lifecycle from
TestRunner#run
. Suite users have to explicitly use the new logger context aroundTestRunner#run
. - Removed the behavior of
BaseTestClass
as a context as it has been a no-op for several releases. - [Deprecation] Removed
BaseTestClass#clean_up
which was deprecated in 1.8.1. - [Deprecation] Code path for passing args directly into a test method, which was never used.
- [Deprecation] Service-related APIs deprecated in 1.8 are now removed,
including
AndroidDevice#load_sl4a
.
Fixes
- Bug fixes and reliability improvements in
AdbProxy
. - Improved APIs for taking bugreports
- Improvements in
AndroidDevice
service management - Improvements in
AndroidDevice
'sgetprop
calls, including caching.
Mobly Release 1.8.1: Fix Final Cleanup Stage Error Capture
Fixes
- Errors from the final clean up stage are now properly recorded.
- NOTE: This may expose errors that have long existed in your tests. They are usually caused by your test interrupting controller object life cycle management. Fixing these issues would help keep your test env clean.
- Fixed docs config so
http://mobly.readthedocs.io
show all the classes properly.
Mobly Release 1.8: Controller Management and AndroidDevice
Service
New
- Modularized controller management logic by introducing
ControllerManager
. - Introduced the service mechanism in
AndroidDevice
, life cycles management of long-running processes for Android devices. - Convenience method for creating per-test adb logcat
logcat.create_per_test_excerpt
. AdbError
now hasserial
as a direct attribute.
Deprecated
The following APIs in AndroidDevice
are deprecated:
start_services
->ad.services.start_all
stop_services
->ad.services.stop_all
start_adb_logcat
->ad.services.logcat_start
stop_adb_logcat
->ad.services.logcat_stop
Fixes
expects
APIs crashing in certain execution stages.setup_class
's record is not recorded correctly in summary yaml.- Controller info recoding
- adb logcat crashes
Mobly Release 1.7.5: Dependency Cleanup
Fixes
- Only install test dependencies when running the unit tests.
- Allow
CallbackHandler.waitForEvent
to wait for longer than the max rpc timeout.
Mobly Release 1.7.4: Better debug logs
Added framework DEBUG level log generated by Mobly:
- Log test configuration at the beginning.
- Log boundaries of each execution stage.
- Log snippet client calls.
New
- Support suffixing test class name in a suite.
- API to unload a single snippet from
AndroidDevice
.
Fixes
- Fixes in
BaseTestClass
. - Fixes for running on Windows.
1.7.3: Windows support fixes
New
self.current_test_info
now exists forsetup_class
stage.- adb calls through
AdbProxy
can now propagate stderr. - Instrumentation runner now outputs timestamp for each test.
Fixes
- Fix several bugs for running on Windows.
1.7.2: Custom Info in Test Summary
New
- Support adding additional blocks in test summary file.
SnippetEvent
is now loggable.
Fixes
- Fix several bugs in error reporting.
- Fix log persist crashing Mobly on certain devices.
1.7.1: Bug Fixes
New
- Allow setting up logger before test class execution. Useful for suites.
Fixes
- Fix recording of
teardown_class
failures in new output format. - Properly handle calling
asserts.abort_all
inon_fail
. - Minor fixes for Windows support.
1.7: Expectation APIs and Instrumentation Test Runner
New
- APIs for specifying expectation in test for delayed test termination.
mobly.expects
- A runner class for easily running regular Instrumentation tests with Mobly. Tutorial.
- API to get runtime test info during the test.
- Support specifying file location and timeout in
take_bug_report
. - Support changing device serial during test. Needed for remote devices.
- Allow adding custom controller info for
AndroidDevice
.
Breaking Changes
- Monsoon config format change:
Old:
'Monsoon': [123, 456]
New:'Monsoon': [{'serial': 123}, {'serial': 456'}]
Deprecated
- Old output files.
1.6.1: New Output
New
- New output file scheme, with better clarity and streamable summary file.
- Improved result reporting: more consistent, more debug info, no hiding errors.
- adb commands now support timeout param.
E.g.
adb.wait_for_device(timeout=10)
Breaking Changes
- Signature change of procedure functions like
on_fail
.- Old:
on_fail(test_name, begin_time)
- New:
on_fail(record)
- Old:
Deprecated
- Old generated test code path
- Support for old snippet protocol (v0)
Full list of fixes here.
1.5: New Snippet Startup Protocol
- Improved compatibility between v1 snippets and older devices/emulators
- Support temporarily disconnecting (without rebooting) Android devices from USB in a test, useful for power measurement.
- Fixes critical bugs from 1.4.1
1.4.1 [DO NOT USE]: New Snippet Startup Protocol
Warning: This release has multiple issues; please use 1.5.
New
- Support the new launch and connection mechanism in Snippet Lib 1.2.
Fixes
- a bug in
generate_tests
that prevents it to be called when wrapped in other functions. - a bug that exposed Mobly internal controller registry to tests.
Deprecate
- Old snippet launch protocol (V0)
1.4: Generated Test Revamp
New
- Brand new generated test. See
BaseTestClass.generate_tests
Please switch to new one since we're deprecating the old one. - Support creating test suites where each class has a different config.
- Support usb id as device identifier.
- The token that marks begin and end of the test in logs has changed from
[Test Case]
to[Test]
. - Launch MBS without package name with
snippet_shell.py --mbs
- adb binary location can now be modified by test code.
Fixes
- Clear adb logcat cache before starting collection.
- Use default
adb logcat
buffer. if you need additional logcat buffers, set-b <buffer name>
withadb_logcat_param
in the config for AndroidDevice. - Time out sooner when snippet server stops responding.
Deprecate
- Old generated tests (run_generated_tests)
1.3: Test Suite; Windows Support and Cli Shell Changes
- Support running on Windows.
- Add support for creating test suites.
- Support UIAutomator in snippet.
- Fixes to adb commands to avoid double-quoting and fix cross-platform issues.
- adb commands are now run without local shell. For commands with more
than one argument, pass in a list of arguments instead of a string. Eg
adb.logcat("-c -v")
becomesadb.logcat(["-c", "-v"])
. utils.start_standing_process()
run without local shell by defaultutils.exe_cmd()
removed. Usesubprocess.check_output()
instead.
- adb commands are now run without local shell. For commands with more
than one argument, pass in a list of arguments instead of a string. Eg
1.2.1: New Config Format and Async Rpc Support
- Fixes critical bugs in 1.2
1.2 [DO NOT USE]: New Config Format and Async Rpc Support
Warning: This release has multiple issues; please use 1.2.1.
- New config format with clear compartmentalization of different types of configs.
- Utilize yaml format instead of json for new config.
- Added support for Mobly Snippet Lib's Asynchronous Rpc calls.
- Added support for handling async events from async Rpc calls.
- Various improvements and bug fixes.
1.1.2: SL4A Default No More
- Stop making sl4a a default requirement.
- Require explicitly starting sl4a with
AndroidDevice.load_sl4a
. - Fix in
android_device
andsnippet_client
- Fix various other minor issues.
1.1.1: AndroidDevice Controller Improvements
- Bug fixes and improvements in AndroidDevice controller.
1.1: Snippet support
- Add a client for making Rpc calls to apps built with [Mobly Snippet Library] (https://github.com/google/mobly-snippet-lib).
- Add a controller lib for attenuators.
- Add customizable log prefix tag in AndroidDevice for better device-level logging.