On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Mathias Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 18.09.2011 17:34, schrieb Raphael Bircher: > >> Hi at all >> >> The VCL TestTool is a GUI Testtool for OpenOffice.org who was writen by >> SUN and wildly used in by the Hamburg people. The VCL TestTool (short >> TT) is designed to avoid regressions. I the past, the test was not a >> load used by the community, and same people say, TT is only wasting time >> that can be better used by manual testing. There are two disavantage >> with the TT. > > The testtool has some value if it is used with careful consideration and > not as a blind adherence to some stupid rules ("Thou shalt not integrate > code without running the testtool on it"). > >> So I will give the TT a chance, and started to testing with it, and I >> was surprised. The first Test brings a error. Within five minutes I can >> confirm it manualy. It was the "save with password error". Well, maybe >> this was also a bit luck, but even it takes 20 Minutes to analyse the >> error, it's the time wrote. > > This backs up my experience with the test tool: it is best used when > larger parts of the code have been replaced, rewritten or removed. Like > now. Though you should be prepared for a lot of red herrings, especially > on Linux (the Windows runs take longer but from my own experience are > much more reliable). > > Using the testtool in the long run is problematic: the developers of > that tool didn't maintain its source code for years, so nowadays it's > impossible to create a running testtool from the current sources. OTOH > the sources of the currently available binary instance of the testtool > are several years old an sooner or later won't run anymore. The Linux > version already does not run at least on 64Bit Ubuntu. > > The quality of the test scripts also is average at best. And many tests > are superfluous, some of them are carried out up to 9 times, just > wasting time. >
Is there a different tool for GUI test automation that we should be investing in going forward? > Regards, > Mathias >
