Re: dogtail epiphany problems

[BTeeter decare com]

I will answer in-line as this may help
understand what I am trying to do.  I have indented David's items
to separate them for readability.

Bob



        Are you able to run a full gnome session
in this environment?  That
        might help, assuming DBus is supported
there.

My basic answer is I don't know.  How would you
setup gdm to work on a remote X terminal??


        But a higher-level question here: what
are you trying to do?  
        - test a "web 2.0" AJAX-style
website (which Dogtail might handle well)
        - test an old-style website? (recording
and playing back http requests
        might be a better approach)
        - test browser support for your HTML?
        - try out the technology?

What I am trying to do is set automated test of our
custom written CRM web application for our QA group.
I just have to believe that the OPENSOURCE tools do
work better and a lot cheaper than the tools 
that they tend to purchase now.

        Dogtail has been designed to deal with
rich clients running on GNOME,
        and we've done the bulk of development
on Linux (though e.g. it works on
        Solaris).  It may work under Cygwin,
but might not.  

        It partially works with web UIs, but
that's not been the main focus, so
        expect to have to do some development
work here if that's what you want

I don't mind doing development work.  If fact
my boss loves it because it stops me from picking on our Oracle DBA.  Its
not a much fun as it use to be.  It is just too easy now with Oracle
putting out a ripped off copy of Redhat's Fantastic work and saying that
they have to do this because they can do better.  YA RIGHT....  Sorry
about digressing.  I have just started with python but I program in
perl and C. So one more language won't hurt.  And helping my QA people
is just more fun - finding all the bugs that the programmers put in.  

        So if you're hoping for a drop-in solution
for AJAX web testing, the        
        project isn't at that stage yet - but
if you want to send patches etc
        that would be great.  It's great
for driving rich client apps around
        though.

Not necessarily if I have to build out the data for
glade info then that can be done with a couple of custom tools.

        Trying the "sniff" application
would be the next step in debugging this,
        if you want to dive in.

I have the sniff application up and running and am
working on some sort of solution to the problem.

        Hope this helps
        Dave

Bob Teeter