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Using the Squish Function ‘attachFile’ to Your Advantage
Read moreCopying test results in the form of files to your test result directory can be automated. Imagine the following scenario: your application interacts with certain files, and those files change from test to test. For logging purposes, you want to export the files to your test directory. Additionally, the...
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Code Coverage of Multi-Platform Applications
Read moreMany applications are now targeting several operating systems. In most cases, the code is similar for each of them and only the toolchain is different (i.e., Visual Studio for Windows, XCode for OS X, gcc for Linux, …) and the library which permits the portability of the code (i.e.,...
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Starting Your AUT Using Absolute Paths in startApplication()
Read moreTo start an application in a Squish test script using startApplication(), (where name refers to an entry in the server.ini file), one registers the AUT with its absolute path in the file server.ini, as opposed to hard-coding the path in the test script, and modifying the paths in your...
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Verifying the Identity of JSON Texts
Read moreTest data might not always be present in the form of line-based file formats, like Comma-separated Values or Tab-separated Values. The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format — a lightweight subset of the JavaScript language — gained a lot of popularity as an exchange format when communicating with Web Services...
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Accessing QQmlContext Properties in Squish Test Scripts
Read moreWhen loading a QML object into a C++ application, it can be useful to embed some C++ data directly that can be used from within the QML code. This makes it possible, for example, to invoke a C++ method on the embedded object, or use a C++ object instance...
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Improved Syntax Highlighting for the Script-based Object Map
Read moreIntroduction With the release of the Script-based Object Map, we also added some syntax highlighting options to the Squish IDE. As references to the Script-based Object Map will make up a big part of your test scripts, it’s important to be able to see at first glance which scripted...
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Hooking Into Java Applications Launched Via Third Party/Custom Launcher Applications.
Read moreSometimes, while trying to automate a Java AUT the hooking fails and the following error is shown: In such cases it is possible that the AUT executable or binary is actually a custom launcher application. The launcher applications are small executable programs which load and start a Java Application....
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Multi-User, Blackbox Testing with Squish Coco
Read moreSoftware development success is often achieved in a team of engineers, and part of this success is achieved through thorough, comprehensive testing. In some settings, source code is shared among all involved on a given team, but in many cases, the source code is secured, and only parts of...
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Coco and System Header Files
Read moreA C or C++ program always includes header files that are provided by the compiler or the operating system. When they are instrumented by Coco, sometimes unexpected error messages occur. This post explains why this happens, when this happens, and what to do about it.
