<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/30/2012 04:30 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:508FF27B.2090100@canonical.com" type="cite">On 10/27/2012 11:40 PM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: <blockquote type="cite">I guess a very basis of automatic GUI testing is the ability to get texts of a particular window through a script / program. As I used Windows previously, I'd say I miss GetWindowText function and Spy++ utility somehow. I noticed a tool called Dogtail, which seems to be the right tool for my need. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fedorahosted.org/dogtail/">https://fedorahosted.org/dogtail/</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/dogtail/">http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/dogtail/</a> However, "python-dogtail" package in Ubuntu repository is ridiculously outdated; it is not upgraded since 8.04: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/python-dogtail">http://packages.ubuntu.com/python-dogtail</a> It doesn't even start on 12.04. It is a package from Debian. It doesn't surprise me that much since Debian develops few, if any, real GUI apps. Ubuntu is different in a sense that Ubuntu develops Unity, Software Center, Ubuntu One, ... in addition to package whatever upstream offers. I wonder, does Ubuntu developer have better tools I don't know or they simply don't bother to do automatic testing. </blockquote> Have a look at xpresser and autopilot. These tools are both used to do automaty ed testing along with testing frameworks like UTAH. If your interested in doing testing within ubuntu, I'd encourage you to come check us out on the ubuntu quality team: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam">http://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam</a> Nicholas </blockquote> My apologies; the links in question: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <a href="https://launchpad.net/utah">https://launchpad.net/utah</a> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <a href="https://launchpad.net/autopilot">https://launchpad.net/autopilot</a> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <a href="http://xpresser.com/">http://xpresser.com/</a> </body> </html>