<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:annemarie.mahfouf@free.fr">annemarie.mahfouf@free.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Indeed, Nice idea, I think this is the right focus to (auto)test
the functionality/features of the app. I've searched some info
about this topic and found this:<br>
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<a href="http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Home" target="_blank">http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Home</a><br>
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It has full support for KDE/Qt (>4.x) apps and the scripts (for
autotesting) can be written with Python.<br>
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My 0.5 cents :)<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Percy<br>
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Yes this is maybe the best free tool to do the job. DO you or
anybody have used it already?<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Does that tool support QML? Is there an active team behind it?</div><div><br></div><div>Writing UI tests ("functional tests") is a hell of a lot of work and choosing the wrong tool means in 2 years we may need to maintain the tool ourselves or rewrite all the tests for another tool.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>I can tell you TestComplete's support for Qt is pretty limited. I have not tested LDTP because we needed support for Windows and Linux for our Qt projects.</div><div><br></div><div>Squish is the best tool we evaluated at work for Qt, it does support Qt Quick and there is a company maintaining it (Froglogic, founded by KDE developers and employing many KDE developers). A few more arguments pro-Squish: it's cross-platform (which means we can run the same tests on Linux, Windows, Mac and any other platform we support) and the client-server architecture is very useful when testing client-server applications, actual environments and/or using virtualization to run the UI tests after each daily build.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Talking about virtualization, what we do at work is we have daily builds for master and stabilization branches and we run tests in virtual machines. We are currently testing on 12 platforms. We have several "testing profiles" (test suites) so that we can quickly say the equivalent of "this version of kdelibs is broken, do not bother performing any further testing: just flag this build as broken". Everything is automated and launched from the continuous integration tool as the build finishes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm a bit out of the testing stuff at work, and very very busy, but if we are serious about it, I can still give some advice and ask some of the verification and validation people if they are interested in joining.</div>
<div><br></div><div>PS: Let's continue the discussion in kde-testing@</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Pau Garcia i Quiles<br><a href="http://www.elpauer.org">http://www.elpauer.org</a><br>(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)<br>