I believe a few people on the wine-devel list have looked at doing this,
but I don't recall what, if anything, they produced. To the best of my
knowledge, there is no other free software effort available for testing
GUI applications.
A simplistic idea would work something like this:
*) Start your app under Xvfb (probably w/o a window/session manager)
*) Feed that application a stream of x events captured by something
like xev.
*) At defined checkpoints, compare the Xvfb screen (provided as a
filesystem file in xwd format) against precaptured screens. If more
than X% different, flag an error and abort the test.
Eventually you'd want to do something more sophisticiated, but this
would get you started. The missing peices:
*) An event capture program (should be non-hard change to xev)
*) An event replay program with screen checkpoint & pause/timing
capabilities
I've been interested in this field for some time. I'd probably try to
leverage something like the greg framework
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/greg) which is already in guile. :-)
-- Pat
Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
>
> Dan Kegel writes:
> > Could something similar be done for gnucash? Would it help
> > make crash bugs less likely?
>
> One of the problems with that is that the majority of crashes seem to
> come from GUI code. Writing test scripts for a GUI is rather more
> difficult than writing them for server code.
>
> It's probably something that gnome is going to have to look at, though
> - a testing framework to allow scripts to operate GUI's would not be a
> bad thing.
>
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