Automatic testing

[McCleave, Bruce]

There is a product that will do automated testing that you may want to check
out.  It is call QA Partner or Silk Test.  It is developed by Segue and
supports X, windows, and Macintosh.

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de
[mailto:owner-kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de]On Behalf Of
eagle at phc.igs.net
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 3:23 AM
To: kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de
Subject: Re: Automatic testing


On 10 Sep, Jesus David Diaz Leal wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
>     I am actually analyzing the possibility of developing a tool to
> *record* (capture all the xevents) and *play* (raise all the xevents)
> the execution of a second X application in order to register its
> behavior and check automatically what has changed after a source code
> modification. (as Rational Suite TestStudio does on W95, W98 & NT).
> 
>     I know how to  carry out the *play* action using the XSendEvent
> function. My question is: Is it possible to intercept all xevents
> proceeding from desktop for a specific application so I could record
> them, in order to "replay" them later? I have checked the XPeekIfEvent X
> function, but it collects just the xevents of the application itself,
> not the xevents of other applications running in the same time on the
> desktop. Could I possibly redirect this function in a way it would "spy"
> on other applications, or, is there any other function which could do
> this?
> 
>     Any comments are welcome...
> 
>     Best regards,
> 
> David.
> 
> 
> 
> 
This is the results of not knowing x.

check out the X-TEST extension which will send mirror copies of the x
requests to the server and to your app.

Rob