From: Richard Dale <Richard_Dale@...>
Date: 2004-03-17T01:29:34+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI testing on unix

Simon Strandgaard wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 02:50:47 +0000, Richard Dale wrote:
>> Simon Strandgaard wrote:
>> 
>>> I am curious to if there exists any GUI testing packages for unix.
>>> What about fxruby, gnome, qt, fltk ?
>>
>> I haven't used any UI testing tools in conjunction with QtRuby, but here
>> is a note from the qt-interest@trolltech.com mailing list about the
>> available ones for Qt.
>> If you are researching automatic test tool options, there are several
>> other options (Free and commercial) available, here are the ones we know
>> about:
> [snip KD (KDAB), QtUnit, Squish, LogicaCMG, WinRunner]
> 
> 
> Is any of these available within Ruby?
I would be very surprised if any of these have been used with ruby.

> 
> Any clues which of these tools that are best for UI-testing?
> 
> 
> I should have mentioned that I'm interested in open-source solutions ;-)
What problem are you trying to solve? Is it volume testing? Regression
testing? IMO, you would normally choose the UI toolkit with a high quality
api that was going to give you the most bug free code, above choosing one
which had the best testing environment.

-- Richard