[gnome-desktop-testing] Announce: Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) 1.6.0 released

[Nagappan A <nagappan gmail com>]

Greetings all,
  We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 1.6.0. This release features number of important breakthroughs in LDTP as well as in the field of Test Automation. This release note covers a brief introduction on LDTP followed by the list of new features and major bug fixes which makes this new version of LDTP the best of the breed. Useful references have been included at the end of this article for those who wish to hack / use LDTP.

About LDTP:

Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework (C / Python) and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the Accessibility libraries to poke through the application's user interface. The framework also has tools to record test-cases based on user events in the interface of the application which is under testing. We strive to help in building a quality desktop.

Whats new in this release:

Bug fixes:

578609 - LDTP should use LOGNAME instead of (or in addition to) USER
553747 - cannot click window itself
579027 - onwindowcreate expects a _NON_ stripped window title
575120 - component should have a getrole() method (ooldtp.py)
573103 - ldtpeditor could not find glade file 'ldtpeditor.glade'
547572 - Components should be exposed in a hierarchical way

Special thanks to Willi Walker <william.walker at sun.com>, Anupa Kamath  <anupak at vmware.com>, Ara Pulido <ara at ubuntu.com>, Sandro Millien <msp at lloedy.com>, Guofu Xu  <Guofu.Xu at access-company.com>, Szilárd Pfeiffer <szilard.pfeiffer at gmail.com>

New API addition:

Progress bar APIs
Layered pane APIs

Download source tarball -
http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/1.x/1.6.x/ldtp-1.6.0.tar.gz
Binary (openSUSE / Ubuntu / Fedora / Debian / RHEL / CentOS / Mandriva) - http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anagappan/ (Just scheduled in openSUSE build service, might take time to complete depending upon server load)

Eitan Isaacson  <eitan at ascender.com> has started LDTPv2, a complete rewrite of LDTP in python using pyatspi, soon this will be available through ldtp.fd.o git repository. For now you can access them from http://github.com/eeejay/ldtp2/tree/master

References:

For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org

For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html

To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list

IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net

Thanks
Nagappan


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