Announce: Cobra 2.0 - Windows GUI test automation tool

Hello,

Highlights

  • Java / C# / 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: GitHub - ldtp/cobra: Windows version of Linux Desktop Testing Project

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 - Generated Documentation (Untitled)

Report bugs - Bugs

To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list

IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net

Thanks
Nagappan