We must find a way to uniquely identify an application we want to submit to tests, across the whole system. I mean without using titles.
Why ? This is what happened to me... Getting back to work on my automated tests for anjuta, I ran a script that I wrote, confident that it will work since it always did, but to my astonishment the script failed. So I entered a processus of investigation to identify the rationale of the failure. About twenty minutes later, I discover that it was because of a my web-browser on my fourth desktop, that had the word "Anjuta" in it's title bar. I know I could write some code that close every window in the desktop before running my test case, but I think it is much better that the test framework itself provide us a mean to be sure that the tests we are running actually runs against the application we are testing. And not it's brother, or any other one. We must not hope, we must be sure. It's about making the scripts robust to environment aleas. (The tests case are meant to be runnable on distant computers...) If this already exists, may someone give me some pointers. Cheers.... Sandro Millien _______________________________________________ LDTP-dev mailing list LDTP-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/ldtp-dev
