[Qgis-developer] Testing and releases

[MALIK Julien]

Hello,

Do you know about Sikuli ?
http://sikuli.org/

I never tested it, but it seems very nice for the "black box" testing,  
and can probably handle the automatic screenshot generation.

Cheers,
Julien

Quoting Andrew Chapman <andrew.chapman at donkagen.co.uk>:

> I think that there are (at least) two different types of testing that are
> valuable for a project like QGIS and both play important roles. Different
> people use different names, but here's my version...
> 1) White box: This is very much in the hands of the developer and is aimed
> at proving the functionality of their code - stop the bug before it gets out
> of your own hands. This type of testing knows how the code should work and
> typically, among other things, explores the boundary conditions.
> 2) Black box: This has no special knowledge of how the internals works and
> tests as a dumb user... that can be relied on to provide the same test
> coverage every time. One obvious use of this is for regressions testing of
> the finished build, but I would suggest that with minor enhancements it
> could be used to help ease some of the user documentation tasks.
> QGIS supports multiple languages and operating systems, is released
> regularly but, consequently, it is hard to produce user manuals and
> tutorials with the most appropriate screen shots, etc.
> If a "black box" type of test harness were developed that could be "trained"
> (e.g. recording keystrokes and mouse commands with a way to edit them) plus
> the ability to capture images of screen objects (windows, dialogs, buttons,
> icons) and save them to named files, this would present further
> opportunities. The same test (script?) could be run on builds for different
> operating systems, languages and versions. A standard set of build specific
> images would be generated and, assuming standard file names and locations,
> could automatically be imported into the various user documents. There would
> still need to be some manual text editing, but the labour intensive
> screenshot processing would be removed.
> This must be a common requirement across projects, has anyone come across
> any tools that already exist?
> Andrew Chapman
>
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