We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 0.7.0. This release features
number of important breakthroughs in LDTP as well as in the field of Test
Automation. This release note covers a brief introduction on LDTP followed by
the list of new features and major bug fixes which makes this new version of
LDTP the best of the breed. Useful references have been included at the end of
this article for those who wish to hack / use LDTP.
About LDTP
==========
Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test
automation framework (C/Python) and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test
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 events in the interface of the
application which is under testing. We strive to help in building a quality
desktop.
Whats new in this release...
====================
+ Major performance enhancement
In this release major contribution from Rodney Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Valgrinded LDTP engine and fixed lot of memory leaks in LDTP and improved the
performance.
+ Major rewritten of LDTP Error structure, LDTP Command structure.
+ Now LDTP uses python logging module.
+ Bug fixes
This version includes loads of bug fixes to address important issues like
memory leak, API functionality, accessibility compatible issues etc., For a
detailed list please refer to release notes section of our project site hosted
in http://ldtp.freedesktop.org. Thanks to all the developers for their
contribution and Rodney Dawes (dobey) especially.
Download source tarball -
http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/0.x/0.7.x/ldtp-0.7.0.tar.gz
LDTP news
=========
* Accessibility test suite by Rodney Dawes (dobey) -
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/ldtp/a11y-test-suite/
* LDTP Presentation in FOSS.IN/2006 by Prashanth Mohan, Bangalore, India
LDTP Recording demo
=============
Record / Playback of scripts -
http://people.freedesktop.org/~nagappan/ldtpguidemo.html
References
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For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org
For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release
can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html
To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list
IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net
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Nagappan A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Desktop Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org
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