Announce: Cobra 2.0 - Windows GUI test automation tool
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Hello, Highlights * Java / C# / VB.NET <http://vb.net/> / PowerShell / Ruby are now officially supported LDTP scripting languages other than Python * Approximately 130 APIs are compatible with Linux version of LDTP * C# client is compatible with Mono .NET framework and we have tested it on Linux/Mac * Identify object name based on automation id (window id, as per SilkTest users) * i18n support * CPU / Memory logging * Remote test execution New features: * List / Tree item API's are added * Scroll to the element if the respective pattern is enabled * Added new characters in keyboard input * Object lookup based on wildcard("?") * Double click on allowed object's * Added hyper link widget type under known objects New APIs: * getwindowsize * simulatemousemove * gettablerowindex * getobjectnameatcoords * onwindowcreate (Java/C# client) * removecallback (Java/C# client) * mouserightclick Bug fixes: * Taskbar is now identified as pane, rather than ukn * generatemouseevent API now takes the optional argument, compatible with Linux * Fixed a crash, if the window title has back slash * Grabing focus on combobox element fails the object selection, removed the respective code * Ignore special characters while searching object name * Fix regexp in object lookup * getcellvalue API now takes the optional argument, compatible with Linux * Handle task manager menuitem, which worked slightly different than other menu * Fixed listing sub-menus with a simplified method * getcellvalue API now as the Linux version * getchild API now returns appropriate output * Fixed *window APIs to work with different types of window * Fixed mouse left click on a text widget Credit: * John Yingjun Li (VMware) have contributed most of the code in this release. I really appreciate all his effort * VMware colleagues * Thanks to all others who have reported bugs through forum / email / in-person / IRC Please spread the word and also share your feedback with us. About LDTP: Cross Platform GUI Automation tool Linux version is LDTP, Windows version is Cobra and Mac version is PyATOM (Work in progress). * Linux version is known to work on GNOME / KDE (QT >= 4.8) / Java Swing / LibreOffice / Mozilla application on all major Linux distribution. * Windows version is known to work on application written in .NET / C++ / Java / QT on Windows XP SP3 / Windows 7 / Windows 8 development version. * Mac version is currently under development and verified only on OS X Lion. Where ever PyATOM runs, LDTP should work on it. Download source: https://github.com/ldtp/cobra Download binary (Windows XP / Windows 7 / Windows 8): http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/cobra-latest/ System requirement: .NET 3.5, refer README.txt after installation Documentation 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 Java doc - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/javadoc/ Report bugs - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net Thanks Nagappan -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org Cobra - Windows GUI Automation tool - https://github.com/ldtp/cobra http://nagappanal.blogspot.com -- Linux Desktop (GUI Application) Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org Cobra - Windows GUI Automation tool - https://github.com/ldtp/cobra http://nagappanal.blogspot.com
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Nagappan Alagappan