Tuesday, February 10, 2009

GNOME Desktop Testing - Project annoucement

We are proud to announce that a new GNOME team has been created, focused on desktop testing automation. If you have ever wondered how could you test your application writing scripts that mimic what a normal user would do, join us in this new effort.

We have a mailing list, a wiki page with documentation and a SVN module with the initial work that we have done, but we need more people to get involve to make GNOME better and better.

Please, join now the GNOME Desktop Testing team!

Still not sure? Here you will find a small how-to on how to run the available examples. Just give it a go!

A big thanks to Christian Rose for setting up the Mailing List and GNOME SVN a/c for us. I have really bugged Owen Taylor / Federico all the time on IRC. Thanks to both of them answering all my queries, all the time :)

6 Comments:

At Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 3:13:00 PM PST, Blogger Jos van den Oever said...

Test automation is very good.
Why bug the eyeballs when computers can catch the bugs themselves.

 
At Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 3:29:00 PM PST, Blogger Vadim Peretokin said...

I didn't quite understand it after looking at all of the pages.

How exactly does it function? How can I set this up for my gtk app?

 
At Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 3:58:00 PM PST, Blogger Nagappan said...

Peretokin,
You can start with this http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/doc/ldtp-tutorial.pdf

Thanks
Nagappan

 
At Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 3:18:00 AM PST, Blogger Unknown said...

Excellent initiative!

 
At Monday, March 2, 2009 at 11:33:00 PM PST, Blogger sarmathatk said...

what are the tools you are using in our testing project?

 
At Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 8:28:00 AM PST, Blogger Nagappan said...

Sarmatha,

We use Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org

 

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