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

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 24.03.11 01:30:16, Ross Bencina 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.

Let me just clear up that point: Squish is not invasive, it does not
require to replace your applications Qt dll's with its own ones (even
though it does ship its own Qt for some of its tools).

Andreas