Announce: Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) 1.3.0 released

["Nagappan A" <nagappan gmail com>]

Greetings all,
  We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 1.3.0. 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:

* Shreyank Gupta <shreyankg gmail com> has contributed Object Oriented LDTP based generation of scripts in LDTP editor.

Bug fixes:

* Thanks to Philipp Wagner <PWAGNER de ibm com> for reporting bugs on LDTP.
* Thanks to Ara Pulido <ara ubuntu com> for reporting utf-8 related bugs.
* Fixes required for VMware Player automation, reported by Gaurav Sharma <gauravs vmware com>
* Fixes required for VMware Workstation globalization testing, reported by Nagappan Alagappan <nalagappan vmware com>

Download source tarball - http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/1.x/1.3.x/ldtp-1.3.0.tar.gz

LDTP news:

* Ubuntu QA team has officially announced [1], LDTP as their testing tool
* LDTP is also being used for VMware Workstation globalization testing, thanks to Nagappan Alagappan <nalagappan vmware com>
* VMware Player on Linux are automated using LDTP, thanks to Gaurav Sharma <gauravs vmware com>

[1] - http://ubuntutesting.wordpress.com/

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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