[TIP] PyQt testing with nose

[Nagappan Alagappan]

Hi Paul,

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Paul Hildebrandt <
Paul.Hildebrandt at disneyanimation.com> wrote:

>  Noah,
>
> We are also looking at automated GUI testing for PyQt.  There are two open
> source tools that I've found:
>     * LDTP - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org
>     * Dogtail - https://fedorahosted.org/dogtail/
>

These automation tools as of now only for Linux platform. If you are looking
at cross platform, then you may need to try with different solution. But,
I'm not aware of any in FOSS world to work in cross platform for GUI
testing.

>
>
>  Both tools rely on hooks into the Accessibility library.  That doesn't
> currently work with Qt.  There is on going work to make them work but
>  it's probably a couple months out.  I've emailed Nagappen, of LDTP fame,
> and he said:
>
> If the GUI application is written using gnome (gtk widget) / Mozilla (XUL)
> / Java (Swing interface) / OpenOffice, then you can access with LDTP.
> Currently there is a work going on to use accessibility layer in QT
> applications using dbus. Once this part is ready, LDTP can be used to test
> applications written using QT too.
>
> I am pretty sure Nagappen is on the list so maybe he will chime in.
>
> Mark Doffman is doing the accessibility work.  Here is some corrispondence
> I've gotten from him:
>
> The work is ongoing, but at an early stage. We are looking to have a
> demo of Qt accessibility over another pyatspi based testing framework
> called Dogtail by the end of this month. This isn't necessarily a
> recommendation for Dogtail. LDTP has also been ported to pyatspi, so
> should also work.
>
> The source can be found at:
>
> git://doffman.com/qspiaccessiblebridge
>
>  Mark's work looks pretty good but he just needs time or help to complete
> it.
>
> So in summary, we've played with LDTP and I think it's pretty cool but it
> can't work with PyQt, right now.  We are looking at Squish (
> http://www.froglogic.com/) to do some automated testing in the time being.
>

Nice :)

BTW, Paul, my name is misspelled ;)

Thanks
Nagappan

>
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> Noah Gift wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
> > wrote:
>
>> Noah Gift wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone on the list have good recommendations for simplistic functional
>>> testing PyQt applications with nose? By simplistic, I mean, launch the GUI,
>>> then quit, if there weren't any exceptions, good enough for first round of
>>> tests.
>>>
>>
>>  You could check out my articles on Function Testing of GUI applications.
>> The examples are with Windows Forms and unittest but all the principles
>> should apply:
>>
>> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/testing/index.shtml
>
>
> Hey, that looks useful thanks.  Btw, do you happen to have a theme on your
> site for people that don't want to feel like they just dropped a few tabs of
> acid :)
>
>>
>>
>> (Functional test number 1 for Resolver One is that when the application
>> starts a Windows with the right title appears. It's about two lines of code.
>> :-)
>>
>> The Python Testing Tools Taxonomy lists pyGUIUnit as a library for testing
>> Qt. Seems pretty old though:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyguiunit/
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Noah
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>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Noah
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