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Convert Text-Based Object Maps to Script-Based Object Maps
Read moreWith 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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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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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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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...
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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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What exactly is cyclomatic complexity?
Read moreThe cyclomatic complexity is a measurement of the code complexity proposed by McCabe which is often considered as a magic number which allows us to measure the complexity of a program. It is common to say that a function with a cyclomatic complexity higher than 10 is difficult to...
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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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Run Squish IDE with custom preferences
Read moreMotivation Sometimes, it may be desirable to start the Squish IDE with a non-default set of preference settings. Let’s consider a corporate environment where every tester is supposed to work with the same preference settings. To avoid configuration errors, and to help in deploying changes to everyone, the testers...
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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...
