I took a look at imacros...my only concern is that it uses WINCLICK to
automate flash apps. This means everything is x/y coordinate based. We
want to interact with the actual ui components, finding them by their
properties or type. For example here is a short snippet of a simple
test we are using...I added the comments in order to explain what is
going on:
//find the first ComboBox in the app
var comboBoxOperator:ComboBoxOperator = flexOperator.find(ComboBox) as
ComboBoxOperator;
//select the option with the specified label
//upon user selection the app fires an event that sets a label component
with the text 'You selected: X'
comboBoxOperator.select("MasterCard");
//find the label with the specified properties and assert the correct
selection was made
assertEquals("You selected:
MasterCard",LabelOperator(flexOperator.find({id:"myLabel"})).text);
Thoughts?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Allen Riddle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've posted on here before about this topic. I think this is something
> that lacks in the Flex community. Just curious if you or your company
> have looked at a product called imacros. I downloaded the demo and it
> was pretty decent. It's a lot cheaper than QTP. It also lets you
script
> out tests. I've also wondered if it was possible to get Ruby's Watir
> tool to work with Flex, that would be my first choice if so. Cool
> suggestion, we'd use it.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
> Behalf Of Simeon Bateman
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:56 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] any interest in an alternative to QTP to
> automate Flex apps?
>
>
>
> I am interested in this. I had been playing with the thought of using
> the FA Bridge to allow you to use Selenium to test your applications.
> Then you could use the Firefox plugin to record our actions and test
the
> movie.
>
> Not sure how feasible it is but even that would start with having a
> testing framework in flex to tie into.
>
>
> simeon
>
> On 2/7/07, brian.knorr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
>
> Automating functional tests is critical to the way we develop software
> at my company. And there are two big things that stop us from using
QTP.
>
> 1) It's record and playback - we want to write test scripts
> 2) It costs a lot of money - we want a tool that is free and community
> driven
>
> At my company we are writing several applications in Flex2 and are
> building out an as3 library that allows us to write test scripts in
> as3 to drive the Flex ui as if the user was interacting with it. If
> you are familiar with the Java Swing testing tool called Jemmy, it's
> very similar in design.
>
> Is there any interest out there for a tool like this? I am about to
> create a sourceforge project, but first wanted to get a feel for the
> need.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
