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Automate UI Testing of Windows applications under Wine on Linux
Read moreIf your Windows application runs fine under Wine, you can automate the GUI tests of your application using Squish for Windows running under Wine on Linux too. One reason to try Wine is to get a broader variation of Windows OS’es for finding hard to trigger bugs. Also, compared...
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Use of script language closures
Read moreAll supported script languages in the automated GUI Testing Tool Squish support closures. In this blog I’ll write up a simple example how closures can be used to unify function calls that seem to have different set of arguments. Assume a test snippet that tests two ways to open a settings dialog,...
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Squish Expert Tip: Java object mapping in Squish for Android (vs. Squish for Java)
Read moreThe Squish for Java edition wraps all seen Java objects for access in test script with a type which name is the fully qualified Java name, dots being replaced by underscores. E.g. a java.lang.String Java object is wrapped as object with type java_lang_String. On such a wrapped Java object,...
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Hybrid Qt on Android App Testing
Read moreSquish-6.1 for Android now has support for the UIAutomator framework for Android 4.3 or newer. Qt applications running on Android have C++ and Java code bundled together and running side-by-side. Squish can access objects from each language, but from a single test case, we must distinguish between these two...
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Multi-touch gesture support in Squish 5.1
Read moreUntil Squish version 5.0, Squish supported recording and replaying of keyboard, mouse and single-touch events only. With the rise of smartphones, tablets and more sophisticated embedded user interfaces, the demand to also allow recording and emulation of multi-touch gestures as part of automated GUI tests steadily increased. With the...
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Translucent scrollbars
Read morePostponing support for SMIL attribute ‘fill=”scroll”‘ for a long time, I now really needed this feature for extending the Atom feed support in KMPlayer. KMPlayer comes with a flash player backend and supporting the Youtube feeds was just a too low hanging fruit to not implement. Anyhow, to ensure...
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Maemo summit 2008
Read moreSo I went to the Berlin summit this year. I might not have come if it wasn’t for for bunanson bringing my little project at a more popular level. It was really nice to meet him in person (left on the picture, as a big thanks I bought him...
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Experiences with the N810
Read moreThe N810 is the third internet tablet that I own, starting with the first N770 that I got via the discount program. Exciting to see that more KDE developers now starting to develop and blog about their experiences with this device. A somewhat dejavu feeling reading these blocks came...
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Extending the script bindings for Java
Read moreTesting with the Squish Qt edition, one can add (from the Squish documentation) var num = QInputDialog.getInteger( "Require User Input", "How many pages have been printed?" ); in the scripts. So testers can fill-in data that the program can’t see. Unfortunately testing with the Java edition and using the...
