[Interest] Unit test framework

[Himanshu Vishwakarma]

Hi,

Thanks to all for helping. : )

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 6:16 PM, Himanshu Vishwakarma
<himvish997 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks to all for helping. : )
>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:55 PM, Konrad Rosenbaum <konrad at silmor.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, March 9, 2018 06:35, Himanshu Vishwakarma wrote:
>>> I have certain question rise after doing much research. please the
>>> clear my confusion.
>>
>> I can clearly see the confusion...
>>
>> ..let's see whether we can clear some things up! ;-)
>>
>>> Q1. A squish is a software by which we can test the software
>>> graphically i.e. in GUI mode ?? please comments...
>>
>> You misunderstand "GUI Test" - it's not a (unit) test framework displaying
>> results in a GUI, but rather it is a framework that is supposed to test
>> the GUI of the application under test. Squish can actually run automated
>> without its own GUI and use a virtual (invisible) screen/terminal to
>> "display" the application being tested.
>>
>> Please try to read up on the many different kinds of tests that exist in
>> the software engineering field. Just to give you some key words you can
>> type into Google/Wikipedia/whatever:
>>
>> * white box vs. black box tests
>> * unit tests
>> * integration tests
>> * system tests
>> * GUI tests
>> * manual vs. automated tests
>> * data driven tests
>> * behavior driven tests
>> * usability tests
>> * A/B tests
>> * test driven development
>> etc.
>>
>> Once you've gotten an overview of the width and breadth of testing you may
>> be better able to discern where in this spectrum your project lies.
>>
>>> Q2. If yes, there must be alternative by we can test the software in
>>> non-GUI mode also. If yes, then what are the methods??
>>
>> There are dozens, if not hundreds of test frameworks out there. Just for
>> GUI Test frameworks see (1).
>>
>> (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_GUI_testing_tools
>>
>> Most of them have at least an automatable non-GUI mode and some have an
>> additional GUI mode.
>>
>> For Qt based applications/libraries the most commonly used tools are the
>> built in QtTest module for unit tests and Squish for GUI tests.
>>
>> There are of course others, but those are the two most of us "senior Qt
>> citizens" are familiar with and both of them are conveniently automatable.
>>
>>
>>
>>   Konrad
>>
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> Regards,
> Himanshu Vishwakarma



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Regards,
Himanshu Vishwakarma