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Disable Logging of All But Some Messages
Read moreMotivation Logging is a useful tool for testing. It can be used for different purposes throughout a test: outputting properties of a GUI object, tracking the current executed step, debugging which particular code path is being followed, and why, and much more. However, tests tend to grow either in...
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Demo: API Testing Using Squish
Read moreTesting is an important part of the development of a software, the idea being that the more thorough the tests, the higher the chances are of discovering code defects or bugs. While Squish focuses on GUI testing, it can also be used for other kinds of testing, including what...
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Monitoring long-running tests by intermediary logging of results
Read moreMotivation The set of tests being run on an application tends to grow as more features are added, or more bugs are fixed. This comes at the cost of execution times: for example, a test suite that took 30 min could now take 2 hours. Since normal logging info/test results...
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Squish & Python
Read moreSquish is shipped with different scripting languages allowing to start recording or writing tests cases in any of them without lengthily setup. The list is: Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl and the one of interest in this article Python. The intent of this article is to provide information that might...
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Tip: Setting up Squish to attach to running applications in a distributed environment
Read moreThere may be occasions when you want to keep your application running across multiple tests. For these cases, Squish provides the « startaut » tool. While its name has the word ‘start’ in it, this tool is very powerful, and, in the case of « startwinaut », can also be used...
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Squish Tip: Silent verifications
Read moreMotivation The verification functions provided by Squish have built-in logging that can be augmented or customized, one of this customizations allows to silence the logging of test.vp() calls. In Squish the synchronization between the test script and the application is mostly done via the use of the waitForObject() functions. This means...
