LDTP 0.2.1 released (Linux Desktop Testing Project)

[Nagappan <anagappan novell com>]

Hi,
About LDTP:

Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test 
automation framework. It uses the "Accessibility" libraries to poke 
through the application's user interface. Thanks to Sun and 
Accessibility team.

Whats new in this release:

* Testing Applications in localized languages using LDTP ('Nagappan' & 
'Premkumar')
The wait is over! Languages are no barriers for testing applications any 
more! We are proud to announce the localization support available with 
this release of LDTP which no other F/OSS test automation tool has ever 
provided till date. This version of LDTP lets you test applications in 
localized languages. The best part being not necessary to rewrite 
scripts for testing applications running in localized languages. Use 
existing script, follow the simple steps provided in the README file 
(Localization support section) and you have LDTP testing your 
application!! The current version of LDTP does not include testing of 
rendering of localized strings. Thanks to Karunakar 
(karunakar indlinux org) for helping us complete this work successfully.

* New component functions:
  + 'sortcolumnindex' and 'sortcolumn' for table/tree-table objects. 
('Shaheed')
  + 'getwindowlist' and 'getcomponentlist' ('Premkumar')
  + 'bindtext', 'getobjectinfo' and 'getobjectproperties' ('Nagappan')

* Major Bug Fixes:
 + Proper error messages have been updated for easy debugging ('Nagappan')
 + 'selectrow' to select row based on number of matchings ('Shaheed')
 + 'doesrowexist' now performs an exact match ('Shaheed')
 + Crasher bug in menu.c relating to menu items has been fixed 
('Nagappan')
 + Crasher bug in 'selectcalendardate' API has been fixed ('Premkumar')

* Automation scripts:
 + Evolution 2.5.1 automation scripts for the following scenarios have 
been updated. Thanks to Patrick (patrick gu sun com), Haip 
(harry lu sun com), Nags (anagappan novell com), Premkumar 
(jpremkumar novell com) and Shaheed (sshaik novell com) for their 
wonderful contribution.

     - Compose mail with/without attachment
     - Copy/Delete/Move mail
  - Forward mail mail in different styles (Attachment/Inline/Quoted)
     - Search for mail based on
            - Subject or sender contains
            - Subject contains
            - Sender contains
     - Create/Rename/Delete mail folder
     - Create vfolder from message sender/message subject
     - Creating an user account

Following are the requirements for setting up LDTP
    + Python 2.3 or higher
    + Python Imaging Library
    + libstatgrab and pystatgrab [please use the development snapshot 
for libstatgrab which includes an important fix for a crasher bug]. You 
can download these libraries from http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
    + Import utility of ImageMagick
    + gettext library (0.14 or higher). You can download it from 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html

You can download the latest version of LDTP from 
http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/index.php/Downloads

For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit
http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/

Thanks
Nagappan

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Nagappan A <anagappan novell com>
Novell Software Development (I) Pvt. Ltd.
Linux Desktop Testing Project - 
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