What is Autopilot, and how does it work?

[Nicholas Skaggs]

PIerre, good question. The answer is yes, autopilot can retrieve data from
running applications. But of course, you have to run autopilot and have a
test to ask for the information.

In reality, if someone wanted to steal a password they would have to
convince you to run an executable. The executable would grab the data
directly, no need to use autopilot or write a testcase for it :-)

Nicholas


On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Pierre Equoy <pierre.equoy at gmail.com>wrote:

> Nice introduction! Thanks for taking the time to do this!
>
> The fact that you're drawing while talking makes it a little bit hard to
> focus on what you're saying, but it's good to grab the basics of autopilot!
>
> A question regarding security: autopilot can retrieve any field from any
> application, and "do stuff with it", right?
> In that case, couldn't someone write a test that grabs all the passwords
> from the Ubuntu online account window, and send them by e-mail to someone
> else?
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at phillw.net>wrote:
>
>> Excellent video, hope you have got in embedded into the wiki area!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>>
>> On 14 May 2014 21:29, Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > This is a non-technical video, and is targeted at folks who might be
>> > scratching there head when autopilot is mentioned on the mailing list.
>> Give
>> > a watch!
>> >
>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En1MaDDp9_8
>> >
>> >
>> > Nicholas
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