Automatic Testing tool now available for KDE

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

Today, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB released the first beta version of 
KD Executor 2.0; our tool for testing and automation. We
are proud to make available a free version of this to the KDE community. 
(Free as in beer, not as in speech).

What is KD Executor
===================
KD Executor is a record and playback tool for Qt and KDE
applications. In addition, it contains a test environment which uses
this record and playback tool for testing Qt and KDE applications.

Why free as in beer and not free as in speech?
==============================================
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB has always been very dedicated to Open Source
Software development, all of our employees are involved in KDE development,
and most have a record of open source involvement in the order of magnitude
of 10 years.

Much of our software is dual-licensed under the GPL and a commercial
license, and therefore it has been a great worry for us that we have
so far not been able to make KD Executor available under GPL.

We have reached the conclusion that this is likely never going to
happen, as this would make it very difficult, if not impossible, for
us to sell any commercial licenses, but fortunately we have found a
way to still make it available to our fellow KDE programmers.

Where to download it?
=====================
The KD Executor community edition is available from
http://www.klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se/?page=products&sub=kdexecutor

To use it you need to set a license key (the version will expire in three
months at which time the final 2.0 version should be released; that
version will not be time-bombed).
To use this key, put the following lines in your .zshrc or equivalent 
export KDABEvalKey=69e9ec5ff9e9689c

Mirror sites needed
===================
We only have limited bandwidth available, so we would very much appreciate
it if people set up mirrors.

If doing so please notify us by sending a mail to
info at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se, and we will add your site to the
download page listed above.

KD Executor mailing lists
=========================
There is a mailing list dedicated to KD Executor discussions available at
http://www.klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se/mailman/listinfo/kdexecutor-interest

Kind Regards
Jesper Pedersen
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
 
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