Supported platforms

[ghost]

Hi,

Please could you advise what platforms are supported, or will be supported in the near future?

The Build and Run instructions refer to Windows & Linux and these are the only platforms in recent releases, but Release 1.3.0 also included Mac and there are still some mentions of Mac in the source code.

From this, I'm assuming Mac is no longer supported, but haven't found any narrative or extra information to back this conclusion up. It would be great to know whether QtWebDriver might meet my needs on Mac before I seek an alternative option.

Thanks for your help!

[hekra01]

Hi,

QtWebdriver is not actively maintained anymore and no future release (mac/win/Linux) is planned at this time.
For Mac, you can try to build from source using build_mac.sh but this was not tested on the latest releases

Best,

[ghost]

Thank you for your quick reply and for the information.
Out of interest, do you know if there is a particular tool that previous users of the QtWebDriver have generally transitioned to using as an alternative please? It crossed my mind that that may be part of the reason for the project no longer being under active development, and it would be very useful to know. No worries if this isn't the case though.

[hekra01]

If you need to automate QtWebEngine instead of QtWebkit, you ca use QtWebengine's own webdriver. See here: #31
QtWebdriver automates QtWebkit + qml + QtWidget and QtWebkit browser is a bit outdated.

[PaulMEdwards]

Looks like kobolabs is still maintaining a fork of qtwebdriver, including macOS support:
https://github.com/kobolabs/qtwebdriver/commits/kobo
kobolabs@836ad70

[fruch]

@PaulMEdwards that's nice to see people still working on this one.

Good thing this project is open-source, cause as far as I know the people that was leading this project are not working in Cisco anymore.

Maybe people from Synamedia are still using this project, but I don't think still maintaining it actively