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Difference between “Object not found” and “Object not ready” errors
Read moreUnsuccessful 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...
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Navigate and overlook test script code efficiently
Read moreCreating and maintaining Squish tests requires a fair bit of editing the test scripts. It can become very tedious to navigate in bigger script files with arrow keys or by searching. In this article I present means to navigate directly to script functions and types. The navigation also provides...
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Squish & Python
Read moreSquish is shipped with different scripting languages allowing to start recording or writing tests cases in any of them without lengthily setup. The list is: Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl and the one of interest in this article Python. The intent of this article is to provide information that might...
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Iterating over Tables in a native Mac (Cocoa) GUI Test
Read moreNeha wrote a blog article about Iterating over Tables in a Qt GUI Test a couple of weeks ago. I want to do the same in this blog article with the Squish for Mac and a Cocoa application. The application uses the NSTableView class for displaying tables. Motivation As Neha pointed out, there...
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Using the Remote System API to start an AUT on Windows
Read moreThe Remote System API can be used to start applications on a remote system. As you can see in the picture below the Remote System API is centered around the Squishserver. This makes it possible to interact with the filesystem and to start processes on the system the Squishserver...
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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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Use of script language closures
Read moreAll supported script languages in the automated GUI Testing Tool Squish support closures. In this blog I’ll write up a simple example how closures can be used to unify function calls that seem to have different set of arguments. Assume a test snippet that tests two ways to open a settings dialog,...
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Squish Tip: Good use of the waitFor() function
Read moreThe Squish script API features a useful function called waitFor; what’s less known is the fact that this function not only supports being called with a script statement but also with an arbitrary callable value.
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Improved Management Of Object Names – Part 2
Read moreIn a previous blog entry, we introduced an alternative, script-based, approach to maintaining a mapping of symbolic names (variables) to the actual object names (strings). By using script variables instead of free-form strings, the mapping was no longer stored in a separate text file but instead it was brought...
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Improved Management Of Object Names
Read moreTL;DR: Using plain script language variables over the standard objects.map file simplifies refactoring and maintenance at the expense of losing the ability to generate (or reuse) the names when recording. NOTE: Throughout this blog article, we will use the JavaScript language for code samples. Everything shown here can be...
