[Qt-interest] QDBusBridge, IAPoke: no enough info

[David Boddie]

Görög Veronika wrote:

> I have tried squish. It seems well, but it is a third party tool without
> source code, what I don't like. And it is very expensive.
> 
> Do you know something about kdexecutor? Which is also a GUI testing tool
> for Qt, but it is cheeper, and they give also the source code with the
> license. I think it is cool. Because I am very curious how they solve this
> GUI testing problem on linux, with qt.

I'm afraid I have little experience with either. An old Qt Quarterly article
covers both tools, but is likely to be very out of date:

http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq16-testing.html

> Anyway, I try to understand the accessible plugin and D-Bus interface more
> deeply. Because I think this is to best way in long term.

I have been told that using accessibility interfaces for normal usability
testing is not really the right way to do things, but it may well be
worthwhile to learn about accessibility for its own sake.

> Just one more question: do you know the email address of harald (
> http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/author/harald/) ? Can I contact with him
> directly?

I'll see if he's available for comment. ;-)

David
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David Boddie
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Nokia, Qt Software