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Documentation Screenshots: Using GUI Test Automation Tool Squish Creatively
Read morePrimarily, Squish is a tool to automate GUI tests. However, given the ability to automatically interact with an application, there is a whole lot more we can do with Squish. For example keeping documentation screenshots in the user’s manual up to date has proven to be an annoying and...
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Migration of image based test suites
Read moreSquish 6.3 has introduced the concept of image-based testing. It allows to find and interact with the AUT controls without any knowledge about its internal structure. Unlike the object based testing – which is mostly independent of the visual appearance of the GUIs – the image based tests will...
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Taking a parent object snapshot for better results analysis
Read moreFrom the Application Objects context menu, or from the Squish API, Squish can save an object snapshot. The snapshot contains detailed information about object state from the moment when the snapshot was taken. The snapshot lists object structure, all properties and their values, not only for the selected object...
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Replay Squish tests using the ‘squishtest’ module
Read moreWhy? Since 5.1, Squish offers a squishtest Python module. It lets you use Squish as a module in Python scripts without involving the squishrunner. If using the squishtest module helps you improve your testing efforts but you already have a lot of existing testcases (written in Python), this might...
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BDD Test Cases in Squish: Clean Up After Your Scenarios!
Read moreSquish allows creating functional tests for user interfaces in a behaviour-driven (BDD) style, enabling the tester to concentrate on what the user does (“enter user name, confirm login dialog”) instead of how it is done (“enter this, click there”). Leveraging the scripting languages supported, a very elegant scheme for…
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Optimizing Data-driven Tests through Equivalence Partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis
Read moreIntroduction Automated GUI tests can be designed with configurability in mind, to offer the ability to execute tests with variant input data sets. In this article, I will present the concepts of equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis. These concepts help to create data-driven tests that lead to rather...
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What is ‘Regression Testing’?
Read moreA regression in behavior means an undesirable behavior that was present and fixed once before, or a previous feature that worked before and is now broken. During the process of developing the fix, there should also be an automated test developed, that would fail before and pass after the...
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Difference between “Object not found” and “Object not ready” errors
Read moreObject synchronization functions such as waitForObject or waitForObjectItem may return various error messages. Fully understanding these messages is important to debug a test script. Squish recognizes GUI objects by a subset of their properties and values. In the example below, we would like to click on an object of...
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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...
