[LDTP-Dev] [gnome-desktop-testing] Announce: Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) 2.0.1 released

[Ara Pulido]

Nagappan,

Congratulations on this important release!

I'd like to thank Eitan for starting this project and you Nagappan, to
make the release happen early,so we can have LDTP 2.0 in the next Ubuntu
release.

You guys rock. It is always a pleasure to work with you guys.

Thanks!
Ara.

On 01/19/2010 05:57 AM, Nagappan Alagappan wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> LDTPv2 a complete rewrite of LDTPv1 in Python. This release is dedicated
> to Eitan Isaacson[1]. Eitan wrote the LDTPv2 framework and important
> API's in LDTPv2 !
> 
> My co-workers in VMware Ranjith Murugan, Gaurav Sharma and Anupa Kamath,
> did a wonderful job in verifying the compatibility of LDTPv1 and v2.
> Special thanks to them and my manager Greg McShea on supporting this effort.
> 
> Special thanks to Ara Pulido[2] for tracking the LDTPv2 status and
> pushing us to make the release at the earliest, as Ara wants to include
> LDTPv2 in Ubuntu Lucid, before feature freeze.
> 
> Following are the difference between LDTPv1 and v2:
> 
> * getlabel function is deprecated - you can use
> getobjectproperty('winodw', 'objectname', 'label') # To verify the
> display text
> * Label in v2 doesn't return the accelerator key (eg: in v1 "_Find" will
> be returned on v2 just "Find" is returned)
> * Strict data types are checked, in v1 most of the inputs are considered
> as string, if not they will be converted to string, but on v2 exception
> will be
> thrown, if incorrect type is passed to any function * In v1 we have ldtp
> binary, on v2 we need to check ldtpd.sh for now, this doesn't return the
> version for now, it has to be implemented, if you check for "ldtp
> --version" in v1
> * In v1 each action command was given 1 second sleep time internally
> before execution, but on v2 there is no delay unless its set in
> environment variable LDTP_COMMAND_DELAY. So, the script has to use
> appropriate wait time
> * As Javier (from Ubuntu QA team) found, launchapp, argument name
> changed from 'arg' to 'args'
> 
> Some of missing API in v2:
> 
> * Calendar object
> * logFailures in v1 is not implemented in v2
> * LDTP logging methods
> * appundertest
> * launchapp2
> * blackoutregion
> * label object
> * panel object
> * ProcessStatistics
> 
> LTFX is completely removed in LDTP v2 in favor of wnck implmentation
> 
> Download LDTPv2 source from
> http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/2.x/2.0.x/ldtp2-2.0.1.tar.gz
> 
> New dependency:
> 
> python-twisted-web
> python-pyatspi
> python-gtk
> python-gnome
> 
> Will schedule binary package building for different Linux distribution
> using openSUSE Build Service -
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anagappan:/ldtp2:/
> 
> 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
> 
> 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 <http://irc.freenode.net>
> 
> Thanks
> Nagappan
> 
> [1] - http://monotonous.org/
> [2] - http://ubuntutesting.wordpress.com/
> 
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> 
> 
> 
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