Announce: Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - LDTP 1.0.0 release

["Nagappan A" <nagappan gmail com>]

Hi,
  We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 1.0.0. 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
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Linux Desktop (GUI Application) 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...
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* Object Oriented LDTP.
* LDTP Editor (Record / Replay).
* Other major bug fixes.
* LDTP documentation has been majorly updated.

Download source tarball -http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/1.x/1.0.x/ldtp-1.0.0.tar.gz
LDTP Binary - OpenSuSE 10.2, 10.3, Factory, Fedora 6, 7, 8, RHEL 5, CentOS 5 (x86, x86_64) - http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/1.x/1.0.x/ or http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anagappan/

LDTP news
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* Joshua did a wonderful job of "Create desktop testing suite" using LDTP as part of Google Highly Open Participation GNOME 2007 under GNOME organization - http://code.google.com/p/google-highly-open-participation-gnome/issues/detail?id=51

Credit
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Prasad of Evolution QA team, tested LDTP editor extensively and reported all the issues he faced. Evolution team is using LDTP editor for generating test scripts.
Initial code LDTP editor was developed by Thanumalayan <madthanu gmail com> and Vinod Kumar <vinod gre gmail com>.

LDTP team appreciate their contributions.

References
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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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