Issue VIII - 10 August 2006 We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 0.5.0. This release features number of important breakthroughs in the history of LDTP as well as in the field of Test Automation. This release note covers a brief introduction on LDTP followed by the list of new features and major bug fixes which makes this new version of LDTP the best of the breed. Useful references have been included at the end of this article for those who wish to hack / use LDTP. LDTP developers had the privilege of participating in the Google Summer of Code contest. Special thanks to the mentors of LDTP in the event Varadhan and Emily Chen. We also thank Prashanth Mohan ('Casanova') for his wonderful contributions acting as student developer for LDTP as part of this event. LDTP Planet has been set up by Prashanth Mohan ('Casanova') for sharing information more effectively across the community. You can have access to the planet through the following link http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/planet/ About LDTP ========== Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the Accessibility libraries to poke through the application's user interface. The framework also has tools to record test-cases based on user events in the interface of the application which is under testing. We strive to help in building a quality desktop. Whats new in this release... ============================ + Recording using LDTP This new version of LDTP features a recorder tool which would help in generating automation scripts automatically by recording user events. This would greatly reduce the time required for creating and maintaining automation scripts. Thanks to Venkateswaran ('whacko'), Harishankaran ('sp2hari') and Theyagarajan ('Taggy') for making this happen. For more information on this please refer to http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/RecordHOWTO + Integration with Tinderbox - LDTP has been integrated with the GNOME jhbuild. Using this feature one can execute test scripts automatically at the end of successful completion of package building using jhbuild. This was done as part of Google SoC. Thanks to Prashanth Mohan ('Casanova') again for his wonderful contribution. Please refer to the following links for more information. * http://prashblog.be/2006/07/27/ldtp-integrated-into-jhbuild/ * http://www.0d.be/2006/07/25/integrating-ldtp-into-jhbuild/ * http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/07/26/little-bits-of-awesomeness/ + Automation scripts * More than 70 new scripts for Gedit has been developed and is available for download with this release. Kudos to Lakshmi Narasimhan ('narasim_7') and 'addict3d' for their excellent work. You can download them from http://people.freedesktop.org/~prashmohan/gedit/ * New automation scripts for Evolution are being developed by Prashanth Mohan ('Casanova') as part of his SoC contribution. These scripts can be downloaded from http://people.freedesktop.org/~prashmohan/evolution/ + Documentation updates LDTP documentation section in the LDTP web site has been updated with the latest list of automation APIs. Thanks to our maintainer Nagappan ('nags') for his contribution. + Bug fixes This version includes loads of bug fixes to address important issues like memory leak, API functionality etc., For a detailed list please refer to release notes section of our project site hosted in http://ldtp.freedesktop.org. Thanks to all the developers for their contribution. Whats in Store... ================= + We are very pleased with the ongoing work on porting LDTP to ARM platform by people from Palm Source, China. One of their latest contribution has led to an Object Oriented LDTP approach. It still under development but you can have a taste of this new recipe by following this link http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Object_2oriented_20LDTP + With Google SoC in full steam, we are awaiting more breakthroughs by our LDTP team pabe downloaded from the following location http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Downloads References ========== For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net For suggestions to improve this newsletter, please write to jpremkumar@novell.com Nagappan A <anagappan@novell.com> Linux Desktop Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org http://nagappanal.blogspot.com Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready™ http://www.novell.com/linux