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  • Improved Syntax Highlighting for the Script-based Object Map

    By on July 30, 2019

    Introduction 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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  • Convert Text-Based Object Maps to Script-Based Object Maps

    By on August 1, 2018

    With Squish 6.4 we introduced script-based object maps, which provide a more powerful way to manage object names. Script-based object maps will enable you to use native script language concepts to organize the object map, to reduce redundancy and to help with dynamic object lookup. In this article I...

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  • Difference between “Object not found” and “Object not ready” errors

    By on May 22, 2018

    Object 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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  • Finding & Fixing Dependencies Between Test Cases

    By on July 18, 2017

    Works for me! Did you ever hear yourself uttering those words, or maybe you heard them from a colleague? Tests which work on one system may fail on another. This can happen for many reasons: the application under test (AUT) depends on the operating system on which it is...

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  • Define your own Symbolic Names

    By on February 21, 2017

    Usually when Squish adds an object to the Object Map, Symbolic Name is created as a combination of its properties (e.g. caption and type of the selected object). Thanks to that, most of the time it’s easy to identify objects behind these names. However, there are cases where it...

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  • Overriding Squish functions

    By on February 1, 2017

    Motivation There may be cases where one wants to change the behavior of the functions provided by Squish. For example, even though the default timeout of waitForObject() is 20 seconds (which usually is enough for a GUI control to be “visible and enabled”), in some rare cases one may...

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  • Squish for Qt – Support for Automated GUI Testing of Applications Based on Newly Released Qt 5.8

    By on January 27, 2017

    froglogic congratulates The Qt Company for releasing Qt 5.8 this week. froglogic is the vendor of Squish for Qt, the automated testing tool for functional regression testing and system testing of Qt applications on desktop, mobile and embedded platforms. Squish for Qt offers dedicated cross-platform test automation support for Qt Widgets, QML,...

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  • Squish tip of the week: How to describe your automated tests

    By on April 27, 2016

    While working on automating test cases, it is important to describe them well. After some time, the number of automated test cases can be enormous. Giving your test suites and test cases self-explaining and meaningful names can help in the future when you try to find a particular test...

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  • Release of Squish 6.0.2

    By on March 8, 2016

    As announced today on froglogic, we are excited to release Squish 6.0.2. This version includes various fixes for issues found in last Squish 6.0.1 release. The IDE, the script bindings, result reporting as well as the UI toolkit support have been improved in all of the editions. See the...

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  • Squish tip of the week: How to quickly identify test failures vs flaky tests

    By on July 2, 2015

    Do you have tests that fail randomly? Or maybe just periodically?

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