[Testing] Automated testing, OLPC, code+screencasts.

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Charles Merriam wrote:

> I just glanced at DogTail:
> + GUI testing written in Python
> + Allows some querying/setting of actual fields.
> - Not maintained for past couple years
> - Most documentation and examples missing
> - Test cases appear verbose, but hard to tell with all examples missing.
> - Testing uses 'tree' approach requiring manaully setting focus and such.
> - Relies on all sorts of stuff, including the disability libraries and
> CORBA of all things to send messages.
>
> Here's a good document:
> http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/dogtail/
> Here's a sample test script:
> # Focus gedit's text buffer.
>    25  focus.text()
>    26
>    27  # Load the UTF-8 demo file. Use codecs.open() instead of open().
>    28  from codecs import open
>    29  from sys import path
>    30  utfdemo = open(path[0] + '/data/UTF-8-demo.txt')
>    31
>    32  # Load the UTF-8 demo file into the text buffer.
>    33  focus.widget.text = utfdemo.read()
>    34
>    35  # Click gedit's Save button.
>    36  click('Save')
>    37
>    38  # Focus gedit's Save As... dialog
>    39  focus.dialog('Save as...')
>    40
>    41  # click the Browse for other folders widget
>    42  activate('Browse for other folders')
>    43
>    44  # Click the Desktop widget
>    45  activate('Desktop', roleName = 'table cell')
>
> Overall, DogTail spends most of its effort getting around the PyGTK
> limitations about exposing the entire tree.  It uses the accessibility
> UI as a substitute for having an API into PyGTK.   Most of the test
> script is mucking around getting focus, etc.
>
> Anyone actually use DogTail still?

If you guys want some help with Dogtail, I should be able to put you in 
touch with some knowledgeable folks.

--g

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