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Finding Table Cells by Header Text
Read moreSurely you have seen (screenshots of) huge Excel spreadsheets before. If not, just imagine a wall of numbers. Now imagine such a table in the application you need to test. Verifying a table cell by looking for the correct number? Not so easy. What would be better than looking...
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Using Image-based lookups without running an AUT
Read moreThe following article is prepared for the Qt toolkit, however, a similar approach can be applied to other toolkits supported by Squish. Introducing Image-based lookups in Squish 6.3 allowed users to interact not only with complex graphical objects in the Application Under Test (AUT), but with other elements displayed...
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Code Coverage with QTest
Read moreToday’s tip will show how to measure code coverage for unit tests written using the Qt Test framework (or short QTest). The example A simple example for code that uses Qt which is tested via the Qt Test framework can look like the following. To keep it short the...
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Using Squish to automate Qt Installer Framework UI Tests
Read moreThe Qt Installer Framework got recently support for Squish. In this article you can see how to add Squish support to your installers which are based on this framework.
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Coco – How to measure code coverage on embedded systems via CAN Bus
Read moreIntroduction Squish Coco generates the code execution measurement using streams and by default, the output of these streams is piped to a file on the file system. For embedded devices without a file system, this leads to problems. Squish Coco allows you to redirect the measurements stream via Custom...
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Unit tests for Qt-based applications with Catch
Read moreUnit tests for Qt-based applications with Catch Squish for Qt is a perfect fit for testing Qt based user interfaces, however an application always consists of quite some backend code as well. Unit tests are one central piece of testing this backend code.
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Iterating over Tables in a Qt GUI Test
Read moreThe Automated GUI Testing Tool Squish makes it possible to verify entire tables using a table verification point, but there are times when the requirements of a test case make it necessary to iterate over the items of the table in a GUI test. For example in cases where...
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Debug Qt application while running Squish GUI tests
Read moreSome issues with Application Under Tests (AUT) appear only when a test is executed with Squish. For some cases, it’s easier run our test scenario with Squish than repeating it manually. To get a detailed information about the state of our AUT during a test execution, you can attach...
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Enabling Squish to hook into Sub-Processes started by the AUT
Read moreOften more complex application do not consist of just a single executable. Instead the main application launches sub-processes which also open a user interface. Squish is designed in a way to also hook into sub-processes started by the main application under test (AUT). But depending on the platform and...
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Testing Qt Application Manager applications with Squish.
Read moreQt Application Manager (or appman) is a Qt module targeted for embedded devices. It allows you to create rich, Qt Quick-based user interfaces. The module exports an API that allows the Qt Quick GUI to act as a compositing display manager. It supports installing, removing, and life-cycle management of...
