Fun with Squish and Python
At my current gig, we are using Squish to test a new QT-based GUI app. It's been a hoot. Squish is frameworks, eclipse, and python. Oh, yes, squishy yummy python. To start with, we used the QT interface to start measuring and checking UI widgets. There are some very exacting standards on color, placement, and size of visual elements and squish is helping get the specs converted to a runnable form. This was my original goal for the tool. The team was recording tests post-facto, so I jumped in and we build up some libraries and syntax sugar so that it's easy to build the tests before the code. Hopefully we'll see a lot less code being returned over minutae now that programmers can run the specifications while they're building the code. The next step was to automate to the simulators that sit under the app. This was delivered last week, and we added some more sweet syntactic sugar to make it easy to script simulators in the gui tests. It's still not lightning-fa...