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Monitoring long-running tests by intermediary logging of results
Read moreMotivation The set of tests being run on an application tends to grow as more features are added, or more bugs are fixed. This comes at the cost of execution times: for example, a test suite that took 30 min could now take 2 hours. Since normal logging info/test results...
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Retrieve code coverage data via a remote debugger connection
Read moreIntroduction By default, the code coverage tool Squish Coco creates a file with the extension .csexe upon the application exit with the code coverage information of the current execution. When working on an embedded device, this is not convenient because: Some embedded OSes do not have a file system...
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Lesser known tips on BDD testing using Squish
Read moreBehavior-Driven Development (BDD) is an extension of the Test-Driven Development approach which puts the definition of acceptance criteria at the beginning of the development process as opposed to writing tests after the software has been developed. With possible cycles of code changes done after testing. Behavior Driven Tests are...
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Automating Java Web Start applications
Read moreThe Squish for Java edition not only supports testing Java Swing/AWT, SWT/Eclipse RCP or JavaFX based applications but also Java Web Start applications. There are two ways to automate an application started via Java Web Start: 1. Start via web browser 2. Start via the tool javaws 1. Start...
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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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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 Thomas J. 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...
