I have asked this before a while back but could you please give some consideration to replacing the ancient JScript engine in TestComplete?It's quite annoying when I write something for a modern browser or node.js and have to translate it to clunky 20th Century JS syntax to do the equivalent in TestComplete. I know I can shim stuff like Array.prototype.map but only in the same unit as the script I'm running, which isn't very practical - I want access to the global Array.prototype or have the new stuff built-in.Any chance this can be done?Any interest from anyone else?

Hi, Your vote was added! Thanks.

JSON is part of it, but it's really access to everything available in modern javascript. Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JScript, I believe that TestComplete is using a version earlier than 5.8 (JSON was introduced in version 5.8). The version of JScript we'd really like to use is 9.0, which was introduced back in March of 2011 with IE9, and includes things like Array extras, array comprehensions, and expression closures. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#Version_correspondence for javascript versions - upgrading from the old version of JScript to version 9.0 would gain us everything introduced in javascript versions 1.6 through 1.8.

I vote for this too. It would be nice to use the modern features of ECMAScript in our test code.As for the complaint about not being able to use prototype functions across Script Units, we have come up with an ugly hack to get around that limitation. Basically, at the top of every script unit, we run the equivalent of this: for(var i in SystemUtilities.Array.prototype) { if(Array.prototype == undefined) Array.prototype = SystemUtilities.Array.prototype; }SystemUtilities is the name of the Scirpt Unit that the prototype functions are written in. We don't actually put these lines in every file, but eval the output of a function which is a string to this effect.

Hi Guys, Thanks for the description! I have registered your request as a suggestion in our DB. All your voices are voted. Thanks! We will think about implementing support for JScript 9.0 in TestComplete.

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TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
13 years ago

Hi Guys,

Do you mean using JSON in TestComplete? Or, what does "modern javascript" mean?
Andrew_Gnagy
13 years ago
Yes, I would love to see this comply with ECMA-262, edition 5. I shouldn't have to manually extend the language to use the latest Array iteration methods.

Check out this page: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ecma262/

So many useful new features in the latest version of the ECMAScript specification!
googleid_102416
Contributor
12 years ago
Any updates? Please cosider my vote as well.
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
12 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for your vote! At the moment, there is no news about when support for JScript 9.0 will be implemented :(
alex_hokanson
Occasional Contributor
12 years ago
If it helps, I would love to see Javascript get an update as well. This is not something I'm expecting, but it would be really cool if TestComplete could integrate with Google's V8 Javascript Engine. :P
Gordian
Occasional Contributor
12 years ago
We are nearing the end of the year. Version 10 is coming soon. Will we have access to a newer jscript?
nicktulett
Contributor
12 years ago
Doesn't seem to have changed in v10 beta
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
12 years ago

Hi Thomas,

I've added your vote to the suggestion!
tpoirier
Contributor
11 years ago
I too would love an update to the JScript engine for JSON support as well as other abilities.

Please add my vote

Thanks!
emmanuel_rivier
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago
I would like to vote for Modern JavaScript as well.