Comments on: Testing frameworks http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/09/12/testing-frameworks/ Dave Neary's view of the world Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:48:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Boddie http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/09/12/testing-frameworks/comment-page-1/#comment-901 David Boddie Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:49:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/09/12/testing-frameworks/#comment-901 It might be possible to use accessibility tools to perform some kinds of tests. One side-effect of this is that you'll be testing the accessibility of your application as well, and that can only be a good thing. It might be possible to use accessibility tools to perform some kinds of tests. One side-effect of this is that you’ll be testing the accessibility of your application as well, and that can only be a good thing.

]]> By: Jeff Walden http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/09/12/testing-frameworks/comment-page-1/#comment-892 Jeff Walden Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:11:13 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2007/09/12/testing-frameworks/#comment-892 Mozilla's looked at this, and at the moment I don't believe anything exists that fit the bill for them. They used or use Eggplant for some of this, but that's Mac-only from what I can tell, which is rather sub-optimal for doing releases on three platforms. They've also been using a web tool called Litmus a lot for this stuff, but that's mostly just to list the tests to make it easy for a random person to run a bunch of them manually and report results, not to actually automate it. That might partially fit your bill, depending on how you're willing to compromise in your needs. I've heard rumblings that people working on such programs are trying to change that (I think it was one or more of the Python-based ones), but for now I think you lose. Mozilla’s looked at this, and at the moment I don’t believe anything exists that fit the bill for them. They used or use Eggplant for some of this, but that’s Mac-only from what I can tell, which is rather sub-optimal for doing releases on three platforms. They’ve also been using a web tool called Litmus a lot for this stuff, but that’s mostly just to list the tests to make it easy for a random person to run a bunch of them manually and report results, not to actually automate it. That might partially fit your bill, depending on how you’re willing to compromise in your needs.

I’ve heard rumblings that people working on such programs are trying to change that (I think it was one or more of the Python-based ones), but for now I think you lose.

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