[dot] KDE Edition of GUI Testing Tool Squish

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1152025382/

From: Harri Porten <porten at kde.org>
Dept: nuntii-ranarum
Date: Tuesday 04/Jul/2006, @08:03

KDE Edition of GUI Testing Tool Squish
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   froglogic GmbH [http://www.froglogic.com] today announced the
availability of Squish/KDE
[http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=Products&category=squish&sub=editions&subsub=kde].
Squish/KDE is a free of charge edition of the Qt GUI testing tool Squish
[http://www.froglogic.com/pg?id=Products&category=squish] to create and
run tests on applications developed for the popular K Desktop
Environment.  Squish offers a versatile testing framework with a choice
of popular test scripting languages (Python, JavaScript and Tcl)
extended by test-specific functions, open interfaces, add-ons,
integrations into test management systems, a powerful IDE aiding the
creation and debugging of tests and a set of command line tools
facilitating fully automated test runs.

     With the release of , which is based on Squish/Qt 3.0, froglogic
has moved to support the quality assurance efforts of the Open Source
project KDE.  This release is a result of feedback from the KDE Quality
Assurance Meeting [http://dot.kde.org/1134473541/] hosted by froglogic
last year.

     Squish/KDE is a free of charge (closed source) version of Squish
which can be used to create and run tests for Open Source KDE
applications (KDE 3.x and 4.x). Furthermore, froglogic will also fund a
few part-time testers to create tests for the core applications of KDE
to get the GUI testing efforts going.  To quickly understand Squish see
this Flash video demonstration.
 [http://www.froglogic.com/download/demos/squish_2_intro/]
     "We use KDE internally at froglogic as one of our main development
and office platforms", said Frerich Raabe, software engineer at
froglogic. "Many of froglogic's engineers are part of the KDE project
themselves. Therefore we decided to support KDE's QA efforts to give
something back to the KDE community."

     Adriaan de Groot, leading member of the KDE Quality Team, says:
"KDE believes in a strong and consistent user interface; our cooperation
with OpenUsability.org underscores this. Our HCI guidelines set out what
we believe to be a good user interface. We have seen demonstrations of
the power of Squish in testing the quantitive aspects of the HCI
guidelines and are pleased to be able to deploy it within our quality
assurance framework."

     You can have a look at first efforts to automatically test the
usability of KDE applications using Squish at
http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/usability/.
 [http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/usability/]
     froglogic GmbH [http://www.froglogic.com] is a software company
based in Hamburg, Germany whose their flagship product is Squish. They
also offer Qt consultancy services and other Qt-based development tools
such as the Tcl/Tk/Qt migration framework Tq.