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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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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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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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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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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...
