[Sugar-devel] Automated coverage testing?

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Sascha Silbe
<sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:48:17AM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
>
>> Is there an automated test for Sugar or for activities?  Something that
>> will act like a user and generate keyboard and mouse actions to exercise
>> each feature at least once.
>
> Like Rafael mentioned there was a GSoC project called SugarBot [1-4], but no
> one volunteered for integrating it upstream [5]. There has been a thread on
> sugar-devel about it.
> Dogtail [6] seems to be used by Gnome and should work for Sugar as well
> (I've had it manually attached to a Sugar session once so it's mostly a
> matter of figuring out how to integrate/run it). I've tried to figure out
> if/how the Gnome team runs fully automatic tests using dogtail (JHBuild
> integration was developed at some point, but apparently never got used) but
> didn't succeed due to lack of time.
>
> _Any_ help on getting more automated testing done, especially involving the
> GUI part, is greatly appreciated. It might sound boring, but will help
> finding bugs in new features faster and thus accelerate Sugar development.
>
>