[Qt-interest] approaches to functional testing Qt apps?

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Hello,

I recently blogged about this:

A wish a day 5: KDE UI testing
http://www.elpauer.org/?p=670

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Ross Bencina
<rossb-lists at audiomulch.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> I'm looking at setting up automated functional testing for my Qt app, and
> would like to ask your advice for suggestions about tools, approaches and
> your experiences with functional testing tools and frameworks for GUI apps.
>
> I'd like to be able to perform automated testing of my app from final
> user-shippable installers -- including testing downloading the app, the
> install process and user actions with the app. Currently my app is available
> on Windows and OSX. Later perhaps Android or any other popular tablet OS Qt
> is ported to. My app has a lot of custom direct-manipulation widgets, it is
> not just menus, buttons, text fields and checkboxes.
>
> I would prefer using a test system that works with native platform GUI event
> automation. Something that simulates actions by QEvent injection seems a
> little too close to Qt for my liking.
>
> So far I've looked a bit at Squish. I am already uncertain because of the
> price. It seems I will need to get a more expensive edition if I want to
> test the non-Qt installation process and also be able to test my embedded
> non-Qt Coca dialogs. Also my understanding is that  it replaces Qt DLLs with
> it's own custom ones -- I would prefer a non-invasive approach since I'd
> like to test/validate the actual builds I am shipping to my customers. It
> does seem like a solid tool, so if you use it I'd love to hear about your
> experiences, but I'm also very interested in considering other options.
>
> There seems to be a whole bunch of open source GUI testing tools out there
> (eg: http://www.testingfaqs.org/t-gui.html and
> http://www.opensourcetesting.org/functional.php ). Has anyone built a GUI
> testing system for a cross-platform Qt app using open source tools? would
> you recommend one?
>
> At this stage I'd consider anything from buying a tool, to building
> something from scratch in Python.
>
> Any and all advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ross
>
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Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)