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Finding Table Cells by Header Text
Read moreSurely you have seen (screenshots of) huge Excel spreadsheets before. If not, just imagine a wall of numbers. Now imagine such a table in the application you need to test. Verifying a table cell by looking for the correct number? Not so easy. What would be better than looking...
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Documentation Screenshots: Using GUI Test Automation Tool Squish Creatively
Read morePrimarily, Squish is a tool to automate GUI tests. However, given the ability to automatically interact with an application, there is a whole lot more we can do with Squish. For example keeping documentation screenshots in the user’s manual up to date has proven to be an annoying and...
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How to automate GUI tests for macOS ‘.dmg’ installer images
Read moreIf you have used Squish before, you probably already test your application thoroughly. However for a new user, there are a few steps to take until they even run the application in the first place: they need to install it. That procedure is part of the first impression you...
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Debugging Test Failures Using Your Favorite IDE
Read moreOne goal of automated testing through Squish is to find bugs and regressions in your application. The cause for some test failures is easy to spot, other ones can be hard to debug. Squish already provides crash dumps when the AUT decides to give up, but in not-so-obvious cases...
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Verifying Custom Properties of a QObject in Squish
Read moreIf you’re testing a Qt-based application with Squish, you probably know the problem: one of your classes has custom properties you would really like to verify, but you cannot seem to get hold of it from a test script. First the bad news: making it available requires changing your...
