From: Simon Strandgaard Date: 2004-03-17T04:19:33+09:00 Subject: Re: GUI testing on unix On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:26:19 +0000, Richard Dale wrote: > 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. > It surprises me that there isn't any ui-testing supported on unix/ruby. However for windows there is: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=win32-guitest >> >> 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. > Just want to play around with UI-testing. I have never tried it before. So there isn't any problems to solve yet ;-) Maybe write a chapter about UI-testing with ruby. -- Simon Strandgaard