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Managing Multiple Squish Editions on a Single System
Read moreA common approach to testing Applications Under Test (AUTs) using different UI technologies is to have multiple editions of Squish installed. However, by default, each Squish IDE uses the same Eclipse workspace directory, so they can not be run side-by-side. As a pre-sales engineer, I tend to switch between...
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Finding Table Cells by Header Text in Java Applications
Read moreIn another article, we demonstrated how to find table cells by header text in Qt applications. Here, we will show how to do the same thing in a Java AUT (Application Under Test). Motivation Finding table cells by header text leads to more readable tests. Furthermore, this is useful if...
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Case Insensitive Matching of Real Name String Properties in froglogic’s Squish
Read moreMotivation In Squish, a symbolic name contains multiple constraints on an object search. These constraints can apply to properties of an object, and compare to object references, strings or numerics. When comparing strings, it is possible for Squish to perform inexact comparisons, using wildcards or regular expressions. Case insensitive...
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Using multiple Firefox profiles from Squish for Web
Read moreIntroduction All web browsers, when running, store data in a ‘profile’ directory, which contains things like bookmarks, cache, cookies, and offline data. When developing automated regression tests with Squish for Web, the data in the profile can change the behavior of the browser, and sometimes even cause some passing...
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What is ‘Regression Testing’?
Read moreA regression in behavior means an undesirable behavior that was present and fixed once before, or a previous feature that worked before and is now broken. During the process of developing the fix, there should also be an automated test developed, that would fail before and pass after the...
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Squish Tip: Synchronization with waitUntilObjectReady()
Read morewaitUntilObjectReady() is a callback function that by default, does nothing, but it can be defined in your test scripts to do anything you want. The method is called just before waitForObject() returns, and gets as an argument, the object that Squish thinks is now ready to get events. It...
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Squish Tip: Using startSection/endSection to improve test result readability
Read moreSections are especially useful for marking groups of related results in data-driven testing, and also for describing a hierarchy of test results, where simple log messages will simply not suffice.
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Squish Tip: Verification of Text Colors
Read moreA common thing tests like to verify is whether text has a certain color. If you wish to avoid screenshot comparisons, then the way to do this differs depending on the toolkit and the API you are using to present text to the user. This article will explain some…
