RED 0.8.11

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.11

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7) or newer https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.11 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• Launching parameters for run/debug - defined by user and from Env
• Alternative way to generate libdocs - preference for generating libdocs in separate process
• Variable files defined in red.xml are not passed to tests execution
• Enhancements in keyword source searching - support for decorated and overloaded methods
• Enhancements in run configuration suites composite

GitHub issues updates

• #27 - Unselected Test Suites are automatically removed from Run Configurations
• #186 - double click for multiword KW should select whole KW, not item between space
• #217 - pymouse library raises AssertionError
• #231 - pandas library hangs XML-RPC server
• #245 - JSONLibrary import by autodiscovery fails, QuickFix works fine
• #263 - Console retrieving problem with 2018-12
• #264 - Missing library file for external library
• #266 - Parser exception is thrown when extracting variables
• #269 - Wrong validation problem when keyword uses dot character in name

full changes in changelog.txt