Is there some more documentation for starting with this tool - http://unity.ubuntu.com/autopilot/tutorial/getting_started.html appears to be a placeholder.
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Nicholas Skaggs < [email protected]> wrote: > FYI --- > > > -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Autopilot-users] Update: > big changes in 1.3 Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 05:02:16 +1200 From: Thomi > Richards <[email protected]> <[email protected]> To: > [email protected] > > Hi everyone, > > > Wow - a second email to the autopilot-users mailing list! What could > necessitate such a momentous occasion!? Only the 1.3 release of > autopilot! Read on for the details... > > > Big changes in 1.3 > =========== > > Autopilot 1.3 was required to make autopilot run seamlessly across all > the platforms we care about - from phones, to tablets, to desktops. This > was a reasonably large amount of work, and we're still fine tuning > things. There are two areas of changes you need to be aware of: > > First, there are API breakages between autopilot 1.2 and 1.3. This means > you will need to port your autopilot tests to autopilot 1.3 before you > can use the new autopilot goodness. Thankfully, the porting is super > easy. There's a document describing exactly what needs to be > done:http://unity.ubuntu.com/autopilot/porting/porting.html > > Second, there's been packaging changes. The python-autopilot package > still provides the core autopilot tools (both the 'autopilot' module and > the 'autopilot' test runner), but several things have been split into > separate modules: > * The 'vis' tool has been split into the python-autopilot-vis package. > The 'vis' command will not show up unless this package is installed. > * The tests for autopilot itself has been moved to the > 'python-autopilot-tests' package. Unless you want to hack on autopilot, > you probably will never need this. > > Additionally, there are now some new binary packages: > * The python-autopilot-trace package provides support for LTTNG > (https://lttng.org/). Autopilot will now emit tracepoints at the start > and end of every test, which is useful to correlate other lttng > tracepoint data with autopilot tests. > * The autopilot-touch metapackage pulls in everything you need to run > autopilot tests on the phone. > * The autopilot-desktop metapackage pulls in everything you need to run > autopilot tests on the desktop. > > Autopilot 1.3 is being released into the saucy distribution, and into > the ppa:autopilot/ppa PPA for saucy and raring. Users of older Ubuntu > releases will need to upgrade, or build their own packages from source. > > Getting Help > ======== > > As well as this mailing list, all the autopilot developers have started > hanging out in the #ubuntu-autopilot IRC channel on freenode. If you > need timely help, that's the place to ask. Additionally, the > documentation in 1.3 is significantly better than it was in 1.2, and is > being updated daily. Check out the documentation > here:http://unity.ubuntu.com/autopilot/ > > Contributing > ======== > > There's plenty of work left to do in autopilot 1.3, for all skill > levels. If you're keen to hack on a project that's being used across > several platforms, teams, and products, drop us a line in > #ubuntu-autopilot and we'll help you get on the right track. > > > Cheers, > > -- > Thomi Richards > > > > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-quality mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality > >
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