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SQLite driven testing using Javascript
Read moreData Driven Testing (DDT) is a method to structure tests. It is recommended for a huge set of data which may grow in the future. Code has to be written only once and new data can be fed into the test without touching the code at all which is...
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Screenshot Verification Points for Menus & other volatile Objects
Read moreCreating a screenshot verification point (VP) usually consists of these steps: Bring the AUT into the desired state. Pick the desired object. In Application Objects view check the checkbox besides the object. However, if the object is a volatile object, for example a menu, then picking it may be...
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Navigate and overlook test script code efficiently
Read moreCreating and maintaining Squish tests requires a fair bit of editing the test scripts. It can become very tedious to navigate in bigger script files with arrow keys or by searching. In this article I present means to navigate directly to script functions and types. The navigation also provides...
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Coco – How to measure code coverage on embedded systems via CAN Bus
Read moreIntroduction Squish Coco generates the code execution measurement using streams and by default, the output of these streams is piped to a file on the file system. For embedded devices without a file system, this leads to problems. Squish Coco allows you to redirect the measurements stream via Custom...
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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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Unit tests for Qt-based applications with Catch
Read moreUnit tests for Qt-based applications with Catch Squish for Qt is a perfect fit for testing Qt based user interfaces, however an application always consists of quite some backend code as well. Unit tests are one central piece of testing this backend code.
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What exactly is cyclomatic complexity?
Read moreThe cyclomatic complexity is a measurement of the code complexity proposed by McCabe which is often considered as a magic number which allows us to measure the complexity of a program. It is common to say that a function with a cyclomatic complexity higher than 10 is difficult to...
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Upcoming Feature: Squish TestRail Integration
Read moreIf your team is working with many different testing frameworks, you might have already adopted a test management tool to organize and get an overview of your testing efforts. One such tool is TestRail from Gurock. To make things easier for you, we are working on automating the synchronization...
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New Property for Identification of WPF Images
Read moreSome WPF Image objects have a string representation of the nativeObject.Source property which can be used for their identification. This property will be exposed as the ‘source’ property of Image objects in the new Squish release 6.4.
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Run Squish IDE with custom preferences
Read moreMotivation Sometimes, it may be desirable to start the Squish IDE with a non-default set of preference settings. Let’s consider a corporate environment where every tester is supposed to work with the same preference settings. To avoid configuration errors, and to help in deploying changes to everyone, the testers...
