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To Instrument Or Not To Instrument, That Is One of The Questions: Handling File Includes In Coco
Read moreInstrumenting only the relevant things saves time and resources. Here is a little intro which should help you to select the files you want to instrument. Backlisting and Whitelisting Before diving into the topic, there is one important question to ask yourself: Are there more files that you want...
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Code Coverage for VxWorks Applications
Read moreVxWorks is an embedded operating system provided by Wind River and is widely used for building safety systems. The development environment is based on Eclipse and uses a GCC compiler. This article will present how to integrate Squish Coco with VxWorks. It is based on a video embedded into...
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Collecting and Analyzing Execution Times of Squish Tests Written in Python
Read moreIn the lifecycle of your Squish tests, there may be situations where you wonder why your test is taking more time than you would expect. You might also wonder why a well-running suite of tests is taking a significantly higher amount of time when running on a new version...
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Refactoring in the Squish IDE
Read moreA simple way to get started with testing your application with Squish is to record interactions with your application which correspond to the functionality you want to exercise. Once the recording is complete, Squish generates a test script in your preferred scripting language, containing those actions you performed on...
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Using Squish for Windows and Image-Based Object Lookup for Automation via VNC
Read moreIf you are unable to install Squish on the device you want to test, and you are using a GUI toolkit not supported by Squish so that using the Built-In Hook is not an option, you might still be able to test your application using Squish for Windows and...
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Transitioning from Recorded Tests to Written Tests
Read moreNew Squish users often begin their testing journey by record and playback of GUI tests. Recording a test script captures high-level interactions with your Application Under Test (AUT) instead of low-level events, like moving the mouse across the screen. The returned script is displayed in your preferred scripting language...
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Code Coverage for C# Programs With Visual Studio
Read moreSquish Coco is mostly used for programs written in C++, but it also supports code coverage for C# programs. The preparation of a C# program for code coverage is rather simple, thanks to a Visual Studio add-in that is part of Coco. This post is a short tutorial about...
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Squish 6.5 Upcoming Feature: OCR Support
Read moreThe Squish 6.3 release introduced Image-based recognition, allowing users to identify and automate application components that were not otherwise recognized by Squish’s object-recognition capabilities. While Image-based recognition is useful, one difficulty arises in creating platform-independent tests. Visual appearance of a component can vary across platforms for a number of...
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Making Use of JavaScript Modules
Read moreSquish 6.4 has added support for the JavaScript import and export statements from ECMAScript 2015 (ECMA-262). Here we list some advantages to using JavaScript modules over Squish’s source() utility: Namespaces With source(), the imported script is evaluated in the global namespace. This may result in unwanted name collisions and may...
