@Raimund and Denis,
May I put some thoughts about the Recorder that I collected during the last
years.
I deal mostly with GUI auto tests, where maintainability of many tests is one
of the main factors, therefore I always have to store common things in common
places, not in test scripts themselves.
So this is the recording scenario that I imagine.
- The user has all his existing screenshots of buttons etc. at, e.g.,
"guimap.sikuli" folder.
- If multiple image search is used, the folder contains also guimap.py file,
describing the arrays of images as variables, like that:
menu_file="menu_file.png"
button_ok=["button_ok.png","button_ok_highlighted.png"] #(referred below as
"image group")
- The user activates the recording mode.
- Clicks, key presses, etc. are recorded to the script as Denis already
described
- When the user clicks on some control, the Recorder:
--Gets some area around the mouse
--Takes, one by one, all images fom guimap.sikuli folder, and checks
whether one of them exists in the area around the mouse
--As soon as the image is found, the name of the image (or, even better,
the name of variable containing this image) is put to the script, like that:
Click(button_ok) # or Click(self.button_ok), depending on the
object/non-object test structure
--If none of the images fit, the Recorder proposes the user to crop, to
name, and to add the new image to some "image group", and then stores the image
at guimap.sikuli and, desirably, adds the name to guimap.py
It's much better if the Recorder takes the image not from the existing
screen, which contains highlighted image, but from (or also from) the
screen which existed a few seconds before, where the element was intact.
For that, it's just necessary to remember a few screens for the last
seconds and select the image before the last change of the screen.
To get the basis for setting spatial relations, it will be very
desirable to get the screenshots not only on clicks etc., but also on
mouse hovers, without clicks, inserting find() in the script. For that,
the user can press some key instead of the mouse, for example, F12 or
like that. With this trick, the user will be able to make an anchor,
e.g. find a label to find the check box at the left of it. The sense of
the anchor can be so far set manually, editing the script.
Best regards
Eugene
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1434434
Title:
[request] want a workflow recording tool with support for runtime
adjustments to the workflow
Status in Sikuli:
In Progress
Bug description:
Hi guys!
@RaiMan, could you kindly advise me if you have done a script
recording tool? If you haven't, would you be interested in my one? It
some kind of floating panel with two buttons Record and Stop, that can
capture pictures and write your typing. Output is simply set of
commands, for example:
s.click("c:\\tmp\\myimgs\\PREF_20150320130001.PNG");
s.type("H");
s.type("e");
s.type("l");
s.type("l");
s.type("o");
s.type(" ");
s.type("g");
s.type("u");
s.type("y");
s.type("s");
s.type("!");
s.type(Key.ENTER);
You can copy them and past to your code. Probably, I or someone else
could develop a plugin for eclipse in the future that will input the
commands directly to your code. By now, it will be an AWT application.
The main advantage of the tool is to reduce necessity to make pictures
manually and link them to the commands, the tool does it for you.
I could also make an youtube video. So, let me know if you need so.
Thanks!
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