On Jul 18, 2005, at 2:00 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
Gintautas Miliauskas wrote:
in EuroPython 2005 I believe someone from the Chandler team was
interested in unit testing wxPython applications. I was asked about
Hello Gintautas. Yes, I was that person.
wxPython support during my presentation on gtktest, a pyGTK unit
testing
helper library. Well, now I intend to generalise gtktest a bit to
accommodate other GUI toolkits.
Would there be interest in using such a GUI unit-testing tool in
Chandler? I have little experience with wxPython but, given a little
I think there is some interest. We'll have to see if we could spare
some
resources to work on this a bit.
The context where I would like to see this take us is enabling us to
easily run fast GUI tests on our Tinderbox machines. Tinderbox is a
system developed by the Mozilla project where one central server
reports
the status of various Tinderbox clients. The clients can run arbitrary
tests. In case of Chandler we run various automated unit and
integration
tests. GUI testing has proven problematic. What is lacking is automated
GUI tests, although we have some progress on that as well.
To follow up on Heikki's last comment; we are working on automating our
framework layer which is written on top of wxPython. We plan to use a
scripting system to develop GUI test scripts. Most of the commands
drive our framework layer, but we'd also like to be able to drive the
wxPython layer directly. We've just started exploring simulating user
input such as typing and mouse clicks at that lower layer. If you
expand gtktest into wxPython I would think this would help us build our
wxPython-level scripting features.
More generally, your test framework ported to wxPython should prove
even
more interesting to the wxPython project itself I would imagine.
--
Heikki Toivonen
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