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Rebooting a Remote Test Environment From a Test Script
Read moreSometimes we can’t launch our application from our test case, which is often the case if we perform tests on embedded devices, where the AUT is launched during device startup. In such cases, we simply attach to the AUT at the beginning of each test. At the same time,...
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Using Image-based lookups without running an AUT
Read moreThe following article is prepared for the Qt toolkit, however, a similar approach can be applied to other toolkits supported by Squish. Introducing Image-based lookups in Squish 6.3 allowed users to interact not only with complex graphical objects in the Application Under Test (AUT), but with other elements displayed...
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Taking a parent object snapshot for better results analysis
Read moreFrom the Application Objects context menu, or from the Squish API, Squish can save an object snapshot. The snapshot contains detailed information about object state from the moment when the snapshot was taken. The snapshot lists object structure, all properties and their values, not only for the selected object...
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Restarting an Attachable AUT after a failure
Read moreWith Squish, attaching to the already running application might be beneficial in many cases. E.g. this approach might be worth considering if the application startup time is long. A problem occurs when one of the test cases fails and leaves the AUT in an unknown state. This might cause...
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Global initialization and cleanup functions
Read moreSquish offers a great way to separate the main body of your test case, initialization and cleanup parts. It can be useful in many cases, simplifies complexity and improves test case readability. In combination with some scripting it can reduce one of the worst enemies of maintainability – code...
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Define your own Symbolic Names
Read moreUsually when Squish adds an object to the Object Map, Symbolic Name is created as a combination of its properties (e.g. caption and type of the selected object). Thanks to that, most of the time it’s easy to identify objects behind these names. However, there are cases where it...
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The Squish Jenkins plugin now supports Pipelines
Read moreAs we received a lot of questions about using the Squish Jenkins Plugin in Pipeline jobs, we now introduced a solution for that. Starting from the version 7.0 of the Squish Jenkins plugin support for Pipelines is available. If you are interested in short tutorial please read the Knowledge Base article....
