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Webinar Q&A: How to Get Faster, More Reliable Automated Testing Results Using Continuous Integration
Read moreWith our friends from QASource, we recently hosted a webinar, “How to Get Faster, More Reliable Automated Testing Results Using Continuous Integration,” where we showed you how to integrate your Squish tests with the Jenkins Continuous Integration server for automatic execution of your GUI tests in a CI pipeline....
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Running GUI Tests on Each Commit in GitLab CI/CD
Read moreIn a recent article, we wrote about running Squish tests on merge requests in GitLab. In this article, we present a solution to run Squish tests on each commit. Overview We invoke the squishrunner command to execute tests and generate JUnit and web reports. Additionally, squishrunner is called with...
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Measuring Code Coverage on Devices with Limited Memory
Read moreIn this article, we would like to explore the possibilities that are available to a Squish Coco user if he or she wants to use the tool on devices with limited memory. It is relatively clear that things don’t get better if we have less memory. Therefore, the whole...
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Verifying the Visual Order of GUI Elements
Read moreThis tip demonstrates how to verify that GUI elements are properly arranged from left to right and top to bottom. Verifications in Squish The Squish GUI Tester has several ways to do functional tests of Graphical User Interfaces. One recurring scenario is verifying the layout of GUI elements. A...
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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...
