Change Log 8.0.x
This document describes new features, changes and bug fixes delivered by T-Plan Robot Enterprise 8.0.x releases.
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Version 8.0 Overview
Version 8.0 Overview
Release 8 delivers major technology and usability updates.
Minimum Java:
- Robot 7 maintains compatibility with legacy Java 8. Stick to this product line if you need to use Java 8.
- Robot 8 requires at least Java 11 which became an industry standard.
Technology Updates:
Several technologies that Robot relies on were updated to their latest versions to deliver bug fixes, performance improvements and the basis for new feature development:
Plugin Integration:
- Robot 7 comes at a minimum configuration. Except for the Mac OS releases Java has to be installed prior to Robot installation. Additional plugins have to be downloaded to deliver new functionality, such as Selenium driven automation of the built-in Chromium browser, Android device connectivity, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) using Tesseract or the WebDriverAgent component necessary for the iOS Over Xcode connection.
- Robot 8 integrates these components into the product where appropriate, delivering a use friendly solution which works out of the box.
Platform Support:
Save for the traditional Mac OS app and MS Windows Installer binaries Robot 8 is being also shipped in form of the Red Hat (.rpm) and Debian (.deb) Linux packages. See the Release Notes for details.
Language Support:
- Robot 7 supports only English as the display language.
- Robot 8 supports English and Japanese.
New Features:
- Selenium driven automation now supports multiple tabs and/or windows (RB-503, RB-882). Tabs can be opened and closed using the "Browser open" and "Browser close" commands. To switch among the tabs use the newly introduced "Browser switch" command.
- Objects on the screen can be newly recognized using the Google Cloud Vision which is a feature of Google AI (RB-796).
- The classic "search2" image search algorithm has been fine tuned to deliver up to 40% faster performance (RB-779).