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Control of Sub-processes During GUI Testing
Read moreTesting GUI software can often start sub-processes. These can be either background services which are not directly visible to the user, or they can show an additional UI. The Squish GUI Tester allows the user to control which of the sub-processes will be hooked and which are to be...
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Upcoming Squish Feature: Remote Control of Test Devices
Read moreThe ability to work with remote devices is one of Squish’s core features. While extremely powerful, it does not come without its disadvantages. During interactive test script recording it requires interaction with both the Squish IDE and the AUT. Debugging a faulty test script also usually requires preview of...
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Qt for Web Assembly Support in Squish
Read moreWebAssembly is a new binary executable format. It is mainly used to run web applications within a web browser, but it is also supported by other projects like Node.js or standalone interpreters written in C, Rust, Haskell and even JavaScript. WebAssembly is not tied to a particular programming language...
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Squish 6.5 Upcoming Feature: OCR Support
Read moreThe Squish 6.3 release introduced Image-based recognition, allowing users to identify and automate application components that were not otherwise recognized by Squish’s object-recognition capabilities. While Image-based recognition is useful, one difficulty arises in creating platform-independent tests. Visual appearance of a component can vary across platforms for a number of...
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Migration of image based test suites
Read moreSquish 6.3 has introduced the concept of image-based testing. It allows to find and interact with the AUT controls without any knowledge about its internal structure. Unlike the object based testing – which is mostly independent of the visual appearance of the GUIs – the image based tests will...
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Upcoming Squish GUI Tester 6.4 Feature: Fuzzy Image Lookup
Read moreSquish 6.3 introduced the image lookup feature. It allows capturing an image of an AUT control during test case recording. During test replay it allows finding the screen position of the specific image and interaction by clicking or tapping at the found position. It is the only way to...
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Testing Qt Application Manager applications with Squish.
Read moreQt Application Manager (or appman) is a Qt module targeted for embedded devices. It allows you to create rich, Qt Quick-based user interfaces. The module exports an API that allows the Qt Quick GUI to act as a compositing display manager. It supports installing, removing, and life-cycle management of...
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Squish and Functional Mockup Interfaces (FMI)
Read moreWhen testing an application that interfaces with external devices, one often doesn’t want to use an actual device. A typical testing setup in such cases would encompass a simulation tool that mocks the device(s) in a predictable and controllable way. Testing using simulated devices have a range of benefits: No need for...
