Hi Sandro, On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Sandro MILLIEN <m...@lloedy.com> wrote:
> 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. Sure, this is bug, will try to fix it. Thanks Nagappan > > > 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 > -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org http://nagappanal.blogspot.com
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