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Identifying Dead Links on Websites
Read moreA common problem with the maintenance of large websites is “dead” links that end up pointing to a nonexistent destination because something has changed somewhere. In particular, these include links to external resources which may easily become stale without anyone noticing until a customer attempts to follow the link....
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Integrating Java Code Coverage Tools With Squish Tests
Read moreIn test-driven development, a common challenge is to decide which tests to write and how many are necessary. Ideally, one would have as many tests as there are possible deviations in a program’s behavior. This is often very hard to achieve though, so it is necessary to determine how...
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Analyse test reports from automated executions in the Squish IDE
Read moreExecuting Squish tests regularly in an automated fashion (like in a CI system) is key to a successful test effort. These tests will occassionally fail and then a tester needs to analyze what has caused the failure and possibly adapt the expected values for verifications. The Squish IDE provides...
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Navigate and overlook test script code efficiently
Read moreCreating and maintaining Squish tests requires a fair bit of editing the test scripts. It can become very tedious to navigate in bigger script files with arrow keys or by searching. In this article I present means to navigate directly to script functions and types. The navigation also provides...
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Verify objects that appear only for short durations
Read moreMany applications that carry out a long-running task in the background display a dialog indicating the progress of the task. The dialog may block access to the application too if other actions do not make sense while the task is running. These dialogs usually appear and disappear by themselves,...
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Using HTML5 data attributes in Squish/Web object names
Read moreOne of the more challenging aspects of creating Squish tests is the generation of stable object names. The name to identify an object should ideally never match any other object on the screen. And using a name for identifying an object should not include data that is to be...
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Support for testing Chromium-based desktop applications with Squish for Web
Read moreMotivation Adding HTML/Web support to a desktop application, or even providing a desktop application that’s almost completely built with Web technologies, is quite a popular way of providing modern and fast-evolving user interfaces and applications. There are some projects that embed an almost complete web browser into the application,...
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Help! Squish Does Not Stop At Any Breakpoint Anymore
Read moreIn the more recent past, we had a few incidents where customers and even colleagues found out how to disable the breakpoints in their test scripts in the Squish IDE. Unfortunately, they did not really notice how they were doing this and hence needed a little help to re-enable the...
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Manage Globally Shared Scripts in the Squish IDE
Read moreSquish has supported a list of shared script directories that are not bound to a specific test suite since quite a long time already. This however involved setting an environment variable and starting the Squish IDE from a commandline terminal so that the environment variable has an effect on...
