Re: dogtail-devel rocknrole - extending dogtail tree api approach

[<attila domokos nokia com>]

Hi,

 

I've got the thumb up from our Legal department to open up the subversion, so in case you're still interested in the class written below, please feel free to try it out and give feedback. Also we would contribute it to Dogtail if maintainers find it useful.

We extended it to support sending X-events using xautomation. Please refer to syntax rocknroleSyntax.txt

 

https://garage.maemo.org/svn/hildon-test-aut/trunk/dogtail/dogtail/

(see the example: gcalctool-unittest-rnr.py)

 

Best regards,

Attila.

 

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From: ext Anand Subramanian [mailto:anand harihara gmail com]
Sent: 23 November, 2007 15:08
To: dogtail-devel-list gnome org
Cc: Domokos Attila (Nokia-M/Helsinki)
Subject: rocknrole - extending dogtail tree api approach

Greetings.

We have been using dogtail in Nokia for automating testing of hildon-widgets and some hildon-applications.

We decided to extend the approach of using the tree APIs (did not focus much on the procedural-way).
What started as writing wrappers for individual applications and helper-functions took a different turn as we moved along.

A small class was developed to hold a dogtail node and all the nodes under it as attributes and some search utilities were written.
After some syntactic-sugar-sprinkling, to aid faster development and easier maintenance, we had the class RNR (rocknrole - as it works on rolenames).

A few methods have been added to be used with unittest  - some to check states and another to help compare screenshots of nodes, the last is an extension of utils.screenshots function from dogtail.

Look up http://hildon-test-aut.garage.maemo.org/ for documentation, source and some examples.

If many people find it useful, please feel free to include it as part of the dogtail package.

Any feedback, suggestions and dogtail t-shirts are greatly appreciated :)

Best Regards,
Anand