Another sneak preview into SWTBot
Here’s yet another sneak preview into SWTBot.
This time SWTBot makes a profound statement “Hello World“, to demonstrate what SWTBot is able to do. Click here to view full screen.
SWTBot also runs on Linux, although the screencasts are all recorded in Windows. Click here, in case you wish to look at the script that executes this.
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Linux Code and More » Blog Archive » Ketan Padegaonkar: Another sneak preview into SWTBot
14 Nov 07 at 5:16 pm
Great job, Ketan !
I’m so happy to see you focussed on your goals. It’s inspiring enough that I’m going to focus on my own.
– Ram
Sriram
14 Nov 07 at 5:39 pm
And how did you configure it do this? A Script?
Nirav Thaker
14 Nov 07 at 7:24 pm
Nirav:
I’ve just updated my blog to point to the script that runs does this.
Ketan
14 Nov 07 at 8:39 pm
After look into the source , the tool itself looks like:
abbot(for swt part) + TPTP AGR
the mechanism is to drive actions is TPTP AGR’s way.
while other , (like finder and helper class for each SWT control is like Abbot SWT)
It’s god to see such combination and yes, it’s useful .
Ben.Xu
14 Dec 07 at 11:13 am
Ben,
I’ve been quite impressed with abbot to quite an extent. I liked it’s capabilities to find controls. However the lack of a simpler API on top of it made it a bit of a pain to use. Unfortunately development on it was slow it seems to have died out.
I’ve not really looked at any of the TPTP projects, mainly since TPTP was still evolving about 9 months ago when I began work on SWTBot, it seems from Doug’s post that, AGR is dead as well. Also depending on TPTP for a simple testing tool was too much of a dependency.
Maybe now that you’ve mentioned it, I think it’d be a good time to look at AGR.
Ketan
14 Dec 07 at 11:34 am
Hi Ketan,
AGR is dead. But it will be worth looking into the source.
exception handling is also very important for such library. (in eclipse, you can not expect when and where a stupid model dialog opens)
I have not finished read your source code and don’t know how you handle the exception control and timeout problem.
Ben.Xu
17 Dec 07 at 1:12 pm
Hi Ben,
As of now SWTBot throws exceptions when controls are not found, or a timeout occurs waiting for a control to appear.
Yes, all these pesky dialogs are a problem, and most dialogs cannot be driven through tests. ColorDialog, MessageDialog, FileDialog to name a few.
I still need to figure out a way to play around with such dialogs, that have no automation API.
Ketan
17 Dec 07 at 1:30 pm