[LDTP-Dev] LDTP Newsletter - Issue V - 26 October 2005

[Mauricio Lin]

Hi,

I guess the debian package was not updated from
http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/0.x/0.2.x/ since the date is from
29-Sep-2005.

Where can I get the newest debian version?

BR,

Mauricio Lin.

On 10/26/05, J Premkumar <jpremkumar at novell.com> wrote:
>
> LDTP Newsletter
>
>
> Issue V - 26 October 2005
>
> Welcome to the fifth issue of LDTP Newsletter! LDTP community has
> reached another important milestone with the release of LDTP 0.2.1. This
> release features the much awaited Localization support. This newsletter
> also includes latest news on our approach towards achieving an automated
> test engine. Useful references have been included at the end of this
> article for those who wish to hack/use LDTP.
>
> LDTP is now at version 0.2.1
>
> About LDTP:
>
> Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test
> automation framework. It uses the "Accessibility" libraries to poke
> through the application's user interface. Thanks to Sun and
> Accessibility team.
>
> Whats new in this release:
>
> * Testing Applications in localized languages using LDTP ('Nagappan' &
> 'Premkumar')
> The wait is over! Languages are no barriers for testing
> applications any more! We are proud to announce the localization support
> available with this release of LDTP which no other F/OSS test automation
> tool has ever provided till date. This version of LDTP lets you test
> applications in localized languages. The best part being not necessary
> to rewrite scripts for testing applications running in localized
> languages. Use existing script, follow the simple steps provided in the
> README file (Localization support section) and you have LDTP testing
> your application!! The current version of LDTP does not include testing
> of rendering of localized strings. Thanks to Karunakar
> (karunakar at indlinux.org) for helping us complete this work
> successfully.
>
> * New component functions:
> + 'sortcolumnindex' and 'sortcolumn' for table/tree-table objects.
> ('Shaheed')
> + 'getwindowlist' and 'getcomponentlist' ('Premkumar')
> + 'bindtext', 'getobjectinfo' and 'getobjectproperties'
> ('Nagappan')
>
> * Major Bug Fixes:
> + Proper error messages have been updated for easy debugging
> ('Nagappan')
> + 'selectrow' to select row based on number of matchings
> ('Shaheed')
> + 'doesrowexist' now performs an exact match ('Shaheed')
> + Crasher bug in menu.c relating to menu items has been fixed
> ('Nagappan')
> + Crasher bug in 'selectcalendardate' API has been fixed
> ('Premkumar')
>
> * Automation scripts:
> + Evolution 2.5.1 automation scripts for the following scenarios
> have been updated. Thanks to Patrick (patrick.gu at sun.com), Haip
> (harry.lu at sun.com), Nags (anagappan at novell.com), Premkumar
> (jpremkumar at novell.com) and Shaheed (sshaik at novell.com) for their
> wonderful contribution.
>
> - Compose mail with/without attachment
> - Copy/Delete/Move mail
> - Forward mail mail in different styles
> (Attachment/Inline/Quoted)
> - Search for mail based on
> - Subject or sender contains
> - Subject contains
> - Sender contains
> - Create/Rename/Delete mail folder
> - Create vfolder from message sender/message subject
> - Creating an user account
>
> Prerequisites and Installation Summary:
>
> Following are the requirements for setting up LDTP
> + Python 2.3 or higher
> + Python Imaging Library
> + libstatgrab and pystatgrab [please use the development
> snapshot for libstatgrab which includes an important fix for a crasher
> bug]. You can download these libraries from
> http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
> + Import utility of ImageMagick
> + gettext library (0.14 or higher). You can download it from
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html
>
> You can download the latest version of LDTP from
> http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/0.x/0.2.x/ .
>
> LDTP is available as rpm package. LDTP is also available as deb package
> for Debian and Ubuntu distributions. Thanks to Casanova
> (prashmohan at gmail.com) for the providing the same. Thanks to hackers
> from SUN, china (Dave.lin at sun.com) for providing solaris package for
> both 'sparc' and 'i386'.
>
> For a step by step instruction on setting up LDTP please refer
> http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/index.php/How_to_setup_PY-LDTP_in_NLD
>
>
> References:
>
> For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit
> http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/
>
> All the published newsletters including the current one can be
> downloaded from http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/index.php/Newsletters.
>
> For release notes of every release including the current one please
> refer http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/index.php/Release_Notes
>
> For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this
> release can be got from
> http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/index.php/API_Reference
>
> To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit
> http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/index.php/Mailing_List
>
> IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.gimp.org <http://irc.gimp.org>
>
> For suggestions to improve this newsletter, please write to
> jpremkumar at novell.com
>
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