Linux Desktop Testing Project

[Matt Zimmerman]

I read about this in this week's LWN:

http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/
"GNU/Linux Desktop Testing Project (GNU/LDTP) is aimed at producing high
quality test automation framework and cutting-edge tools that can be used to
test GNU/Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the Accessibility libraries
to poke through the application's user interface. The framework also has
tools to record test-cases based on user-selection on the application.

GNU/LDTP core framework uses Appmap and the recorded test-cases to test an
application and gives the status of each test-case as output. As of now,
GNU/LDTP can test any GNOME application which are accessibility enabled,
Mozilla, Openoffice.org, any Java application (should have a UI based on
swing) and KDE 4.0 applications based on QT 4.0 (based on the press releases
by KDE).

We encourage you to join the project and help us to create robust, reliable
and stable test tool/framework for Unix Desktops. Thanks to GNOME
Accessibility team and Sun Microsystems Accessibility team for their great
work and their continuous support !!!"

This sounds like something which could be of great value to us in scaling up
our testing efforts.  Does anyone out there have experience working with
this toolkit?  Thoughts about how we could apply it to our release process?

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 - mdz