Announce: Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) 1.7.2 released

[Nagappan Alagappan <nagappan gmail com>]

Greetings all,
  We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 1.7.1. 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.

NOTE: *** This is a bug fix release only as requested by Sun QA team, we recommend to use LDTPv2 ***

Changes in this release:

Patch by James Tatum to fix Bug 606224 - Exceptions do not return unicode data

Patch by Ara Pulido to fix Bug 603115 -  Activate wnck function is not working
Bug 603118 -  wnck wrappers do not work with LDTP window names
Bug 605650 - LDTP core dumps on OpenSolaris
Bug 598947 -  waittillguiexist() documentation should say if wildcards/regexes are allowed

Patch by Adam Collard to fix Bug 599119 -  checkrow action fails on table row

Special thanks to James Tatum, Ara Pulido, Murray Cumming, Conny Cheng, Adam Collard

Download source - http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/1.x/1.7.x/ldtp-1.7.2.tar.gz

Download rpm - http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anagappan/
Will schedule deb build soon in openSUSE Build Service

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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