20 messages in org.gnome.desktop-devel-listRe: GNOME's testing strategy for GUIs
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Willie WalkerFeb 14, 2008 10:42 am 
Nickolay V. ShmyrevFeb 14, 2008 10:53 am 
Brad TaylorFeb 14, 2008 11:08 am 
John StowersFeb 14, 2008 1:18 pm 
Brad TaylorFeb 14, 2008 1:25 pm 
John StowersFeb 14, 2008 1:34 pm 
David BolterFeb 14, 2008 1:56 pm 
David BolterFeb 14, 2008 1:58 pm 
Nagappan AFeb 14, 2008 9:48 pm 
Vincent UntzFeb 15, 2008 6:09 am 
Emmanuel FleuryFeb 15, 2008 6:33 am 
Nagappan AFeb 15, 2008 7:03 am 
Willie WalkerFeb 15, 2008 8:40 am 
David BolterFeb 16, 2008 9:41 am 
Willie WalkerFeb 16, 2008 1:50 pm 
Luis VillaFeb 16, 2008 2:00 pm 
Luis VillaFeb 17, 2008 5:20 am 
APIFeb 20, 2008 8:12 am 
Qi-Bo Paul MeiFeb 20, 2008 2:00 pm.Other
Nagappan AFeb 22, 2008 9:51 am 
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Subject:Re: GNOME's testing strategy for GUIsActions...
From:Nagappan A (naga@gmail.com)
Date:Feb 14, 2008 9:48:25 pm
List:org.gnome.desktop-devel-list

Hi Will,

* We have the recording framework using pyatspi / orca-atspi. So, this works on older systems (GNOME >= 2.14) too, where orca-atspi worked. With this, Evolution QA team was able to automate more than 100 different test cases and they are using it in their local testing environment. * Currently the LDTP team is working on OO LDTP, which many users have requested. * LDTP API manual is available online<http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html>. It has more than 150 ready to use API. * LDTP tutorial is available online<http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/doc/ldtp-tutorial.pdf>to start with automation. * As part of Google Summer of Code 2006, under GNOME project, Prashanth Mohan developed LDTP scripts and delivered them to GNOME. * As part of Google Summer of Code 2007, under Mozilla project, Hari Shankar developed LDTP scripts and delivered them to Mozilla. * As part of GHOP 2007, Joshua developed LDTP scripts and delivered to GNOME community.

LDTP team is ready to implement what ever the features required by GNOME community.

Thanks Nagappan

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Willie Walker <Will@sun.com> wrote:

Hi All:

I might be opening a big can of worms with this question, and I apologize if someone is already working in this space and I just don't know it.

What is the automated testing strategy for GUIs in GNOME? Is there a well defined way to create a 'make test' target and have it do the right thing?

I know of LDTP and Dogtail, and the build brigade folks were trying something at one time. Orca has its regression test harness as well. But, I know of no unifying test strategy for GNOME. Are people working in this space? If not, does the community have an interest in seeing something like this emerge?