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Headless Execution of GUI Tests with Jenkins
Read moreExecuting automated GUI tests using the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) system Jenkins is a popular approach to streamlining automation. However, the computer on which to execute the test suite through Jenkins may be “headless.” That is, it may not have a physical display connected to it, or it may...
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Detecting Problematic Object Names Automatically
Read moreNot all object names are equal. Some are “less good” than others, for various reasons. To avoid proceeding to use problematic object names, it can be useful to make the test script developers aware of them automatically, as early as possible. In our Knowledge Base article Example – Custom...
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Using External Tools in the Squish IDE
Read moreThe Squish IDE supports opening the files shown in the “Test Case Resources” and “Test Suite Resources” with external tools. This works by associating file content types or a file extension (for example “.txt”) with one or more applications, tools, shell scripts, etc. These associations can be edited at...
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Automating Qt applications packaged as AppImages
Read moreSquish for Qt allows automated GUI testing of Qt applications. Typically automating Qt applications with Squish works out of the box. If it doesn’t, then this may be because the application has been packaged in a special way, for example as an “AppImage” which overwrites some environment variables (LD_PRELOAD...
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Screenshot Verification Points for Menus & other volatile Objects
Read moreCreating a screenshot verification point (VP) usually consists of these steps: Bring the AUT into the desired state. Pick the desired object. In Application Objects view check the checkbox besides the object. However, if the object is a volatile object, for example a menu, then picking it may be...
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A Demo Mode or Using Highlighting for more “Visual” Test Script Execution
Read moreSince version 6.3 Squish offers highlightObject(), which highlights the specified object on the screen, similar to how it is done when selecting an object in the “Application Objects” view of the Squish IDE: Since this is a function we can use it in our test scripts: But what...
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Keyboard shortcuts in the Squish IDE
Read moreKeyboard shortcuts Since the Squish IDE is based on Eclipse it has a lot in common with it, for example the keyboard shortcuts functionality. For me keyboard shortcuts are very important, because they are a way to… boost my productivity (perceived as well as actual – at least I...
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Overriding Squish functions
Read moreMotivation There may be cases where one wants to change the behavior of the functions provided by Squish. For example, even though the default timeout of waitForObject() is 20 seconds (which usually is enough for a GUI control to be “visible and enabled”), in some rare cases one may...
