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Automate UI Testing of Windows applications under Wine on Linux
Read moreIf your Windows application runs fine under Wine, you can automate the GUI tests of your application using Squish for Windows running under Wine on Linux too. One reason to try Wine is to get a broader variation of Windows OS’es for finding hard to trigger bugs. Also, compared...
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Squish GUI Tester 6.4 Release with Cutting-edge Object Recognition Features
Read moreWe are delighted to announce the Squish GUI Tester 6.4 release. This version introduces cutting-edge GUI object recognition features: flexible and fail-safe Script-based Object Maps and highly configurable Image-based Object Lookup methods. These features simplify mastering test automation challenges such as maintaining object names, dynamic object lookups and UI...
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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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Cutting-edge Object Recognition in Squish GUI Tester 6.4 Beta
Read moreWe are delighted to announce the Squish GUI Tester 6.4 Beta release. This version introduces cutting-edge GUI object recognition features: flexible and fail-safe Script-based Object Maps and highly configurable Image-based Object Lookup methods. These features simplify mastering test automation challenges such as maintaining object names, dynamic object lookups and...
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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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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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New Property for Identification of WPF Images
Read moreSome WPF Image objects have a string representation of the nativeObject.Source property which can be used for their identification. This property will be exposed as the ‘source’ property of Image objects in the new Squish release 6.4.
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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...
