ATF Features Deprecated and their Replacements

[jmiskey]

We are currently on New York, but will be upgrading to Paris in a few weeks.  We have upgraded our Dev environment to Paris and have started testing.  I have a bunch of Automated Testing Framework (ATF) tests that I have imported and begun running.  I notice that certain Steps like "Record Query" now have the word "(Deprecated)" listed after them.  After hunting around a bit, I found another community question that mentioned that this change happened with the Orlando upgrade.

So i have a few questions:

1. It appears that even though the Steps say "Deprecated", they still seem to run OK.  Does anyone know if that will continue indefinitely, or if that will change at some point (and we will need to update them all)?

2. I have been trying to find some sort of documentation that lists the types of ATF Steps that have been deprecated, and what their replacements are, but I have been unable to do so.  Is there anything out there that addresses this?

Thanks

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@jmiskey 

Although it says deprecated I believe they should still work as people might be having their older test cases in NewYork versions.

the only way to know the deprecated test steps is comparing 2 versions NewYork and Orlando

Regards
Ankur

[jmiskey]

Thanks Ankur.

For future ATF development, what do they now suggest to use in place of "Record Query"?

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@jmiskey 

if you see in step configurations you will see which ones are deprecated.

I could see "Record Query" as the latest

you can use that as the other one is deprecated

Regards
Ankur

[jmiskey]

OK, so it looks like they didn't get rid of "Record Query", they just created a new version of it.  Is that what is going on?