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Dogtail is a GUI test tool and automation framework written in Python. It uses Accessibility (a11y) technologies to communicate with desktop applications. dogtail scripts are written in Python and executed like any other Python... See more » Dogtail is a GUI test tool and automation framework written in Python. It uses Accessibility (a11y) technologies to communicate with desktop applications. dogtail scripts are written in Python and executed like any other Python program. dogtail is free software released under the GPL. Some example code is released to the Public Domain. dogtail has a number of features that aid in the automation and testing of desktop applications. These include: * Scripts written in Python - Since dogtail uses Python as its scripting language, scriptwriters gain enormous power and flexibility in what they can do with dogtail. If you can do it in Python, you can do it with dogtail. * Procedural API - A procedural scripting API allows for fast and easy black box tests to be written. Ace programmer credentials are not necessary to write useful automated scripts. * Easily Extensible - dogtail is object oriented "under the covers" so more advanced users can write custom classes and helper libraries simply. * Results and debug reporting - Test case comparisons are written to a tab-delimited results file for easy processing. Debug information is written to its own log for detailed analysis of what happened during script execution. The following packages are required to use dogtail: * AT-SPI-enabled desktop (GNOME at this point in time). * Python 2.3 or higher (available through your distribution). * ImageMagick 6.2 or higher (available through your distribution). * rpm-python or python-apt (available through your distribution). * ElementTree for Python (available through your distribution). * pyspi - Python AT-SPI bindings. Contribute Scripts * Scripts - Information on writing dogtail scripts and application helper libraries. * Framework - Information on helping to develop the core dogtail test framework. * Bug tracking - Something broken? Let us know. Framework See the HACKING document for information on coding style. If you want to get involved with dogtail development, subscribe to the dogtail-devel list and join us on IRC. All patches should be attached to a Bugzilla bug/feature request. You can find us in #dogtail on irc.freenode.net. If you're curious about anything dogtail-related, drop in and ask! We won't bite. Bugs The whole reason we created dogtail was to help us find bugs and, once they were fixed, to make sure that they stay fixed. However, since dogtail is still very much in development, we're sure you'll find bugs in our software too. File bug reports if you do, so we can fix them. One of the main functions of any GUI testing framework is the identification of the elements in the GUI. It's possible to locate and identify GUI elements by their X and Y matrix coordinates, but this approach is limited by the requirement that the GUI layout not change. The better approach is to locate and identify the GUI elements as discrete objects that the test scripts can manipulate. Dogtail achieves this identification through the application GUI's accessibility information metadata. Dogtail makes use of the Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI1) accessibility framework. This is a part of the Gnome Accessibility Project (GAP2). AT-SPI provides a Service Provider Interface for the Assistive Technologies available on the GNOME platform, and a library against which applications can be linked. Dogtail currently supports GNOME applications and many other GTK+ applications. Dogtail uses pyspi (a module written in Pyrex to give Dogtail access to AT-SPI's C API). The predicate module supports searches for these types of GUI nodes: * applications * windows * dialogs * menus * menu items * text entries * buttons * tabbed panels So far so good. But, what if you have to access a group of child GUI nodes all at once? Use the children attribute. How does Dogtail work? The "children" Attribute The basic use of the children attribute is simply a logical extension. Where the child attribute returns a single child GUI node of he target node, the children attribute returns a Python List of all the child attributes of the target node. Easy, See less »

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