Announce: Cobra 2.0 - Windows GUI test automation tool

[Nagappan Alagappan <nagappan gmail com>]

Hello,

Highlights

* Java / C# / VB.NET / PowerShell / Ruby are now officially supported LDTP scripting languages other than Python

* Approximately 130 APIs are compatible with Linux version of LDTP

* C# client is compatible with Mono .NET framework and we have tested it on Linux/Mac

* Identify object name based on automation id (window id, as per SilkTest users)

* i18n support

* CPU / Memory logging

* Remote test execution

New features:

* List / Tree item API's are added

* Scroll to the element if the respective pattern is enabled

* Added new characters in keyboard input

* Object lookup based on wildcard("?")

* Double click on allowed object's

* Added hyper link widget type under known objects

New APIs:

* getwindowsize

* simulatemousemove

* gettablerowindex

* getobjectnameatcoords

* onwindowcreate (Java/C# client)

* removecallback (Java/C# client)

* mouserightclick

Bug fixes:

* Taskbar is now identified as pane, rather than ukn

* generatemouseevent API now takes the optional argument, compatible with Linux

* Fixed a crash, if the window title has back slash

* Grabing focus on combobox element fails the object selection, removed the respective code

* Ignore special characters while searching object name

* Fix regexp in object lookup

* getcellvalue API now takes the optional argument, compatible with Linux

* Handle task manager menuitem, which worked slightly different than other menu

* Fixed listing sub-menus with a simplified method

* getcellvalue API now as the Linux version

* getchild API now returns appropriate output

* Fixed *window APIs to work with different types of window

* Fixed mouse left click on a text widget

Credit:

* John Yingjun Li (VMware) have contributed most of the code in this release. I really appreciate all his effort

* VMware colleagues

* Thanks to all others who have reported bugs through forum / email / in-person / IRC

Please spread the word and also share your feedback with us.

About LDTP:

Cross Platform GUI Automation tool Linux version is LDTP, Windows version is Cobra and Mac version is PyATOM (Work in progress).

* Linux version is known to work on GNOME / KDE (QT >= 4.8) / Java Swing / LibreOffice / Mozilla application on all major Linux distribution.

* Windows version is known to work on application written in .NET / C++ / Java / QT on Windows XP SP3 / Windows 7 / Windows 8 development version.

* Mac version is currently under development and verified only on OS X Lion. Where ever PyATOM runs, LDTP should work on it.

Download source: https://github.com/ldtp/cobra

Download binary (Windows XP / Windows 7 / Windows 8):

http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/cobra-latest/

System requirement: .NET 3.5, refer README.txt after installation

Documentation 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

Java doc - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/javadoc/

Report bugs - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs

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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