[Autopilot-users] Update: big changes in 1.3

[Vasudevan Kottilil]

Is there some more documentation for starting with this tool -
http://unity.ubuntu.com/autopilot/tutorial/getting_started.html appears to
be a placeholder.

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Nicholas Skaggs <
nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:

>  FYI ---
>
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> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: [Autopilot-users] Update:
> big changes in 1.3  Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 05:02:16 +1200  From: Thomi
> Richards <thomi.richards at canonical.com> <thomi.richards at canonical.com>  To:
> autopilot-users at lists.launchpad.net
>
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> Wow - a second email to the autopilot-users mailing list! What could
> necessitate such a momentous occasion!? Only the 1.3 release of
> autopilot! Read on for the details...
>
>
> Big changes in 1.3
> ===========
>
> Autopilot 1.3 was required to make autopilot run seamlessly across all
> the platforms we care about - from phones, to tablets, to desktops. This
> was a reasonably large amount of work, and we're still fine tuning
> things. There are two areas of changes you need to be aware of:
>
> First, there are API breakages between autopilot 1.2 and 1.3. This means
> you will need to port your autopilot tests to autopilot 1.3 before you
> can use the new autopilot goodness. Thankfully, the porting is super
> easy. There's a document describing exactly what needs to be done:http://unity.ubuntu.com/autopilot/porting/porting.html
>
> Second, there's been packaging changes. The python-autopilot package
> still provides the core autopilot tools (both the 'autopilot' module and
> the 'autopilot' test runner), but several things have been split into
> separate modules:
>  * The 'vis' tool has been split into the python-autopilot-vis package.
> The 'vis' command will not show up unless this package is installed.
>  * The tests for autopilot itself has been moved to the
> 'python-autopilot-tests' package. Unless you want to hack on autopilot,
> you probably will never need this.
>
> Additionally, there are now some new binary packages:
>  * The python-autopilot-trace package provides support for LTTNG
> (https://lttng.org/). Autopilot will now emit tracepoints at the start
> and end of every test, which is useful to correlate other lttng
> tracepoint data with autopilot tests.
>  * The autopilot-touch metapackage pulls in everything you need to run
> autopilot tests on the phone.
>  * The autopilot-desktop metapackage pulls in everything you need to run
> autopilot tests on the desktop.
>
> Autopilot 1.3 is being released into the saucy distribution, and into
> the ppa:autopilot/ppa PPA for saucy and raring. Users of older Ubuntu
> releases will need to upgrade, or build their own packages from source.
>
> Getting Help
> ========
>
> As well as this mailing list, all the autopilot developers have started
> hanging out in the #ubuntu-autopilot IRC channel on freenode. If you
> need timely help, that's the place to ask. Additionally, the
> documentation in 1.3 is significantly better than it was in 1.2, and is
> being updated daily. Check out the documentation here:http://unity.ubuntu.com/autopilot/
>
> Contributing
> ========
>
> There's plenty of work left to do in autopilot 1.3, for all skill
> levels. If you're keen to hack on a project that's being used across
> several platforms, teams, and products, drop us a line in
> #ubuntu-autopilot and we'll help you get on the right track.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Thomi Richards
>
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