On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 16:24, Yevlempy(Harsh Verma) <yevle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I Would like to propose GSOC 2010 idea for Sugarlabs. > > ----The Proposal---- > I would like to propose an idea of Integrating LDTP with sugar. > Gnome/LDTP[1] > (Linux Desktop Testing Project) seem to be doing this set of things for > Gnome > (and other desktops) the evince test suite includes automatic UI tests as > well. > > > ----Advantages---- > We can do a set of basic tests that simulate a user working with Sugar > basically > doing the "Smoke Test" stuff automatically. Having a fully working test > suite that > can not test those few parts will also be a good motivation/idea to > replace them. > > ----Required---- > > As a starter i would need some kind of test framework that starts up Sugar > in a > virtual X server (i.e. something like xvfb), wait for Sugar to start up (for > most of the > tests - maybe some might try to crash it by activating things while the UI > is still is > loading) and run a single test (each test will start fresh).Which can be > achieved by > trying to reuse Mago[2]. And looking at the [3] we can also try to do some > thing with > xvfg.LDTP can be used to test the functionality of an accessibility enabled > application. > As sugar is build on top of the Gnome libraries, the AIUI, the Gnome > libraries already > take care of that. > > ----My FOSS expirence---- > > I have been a Fedora Ambassador[4] since a long time enjoying the open > source world. > I basically do stuff with python and pygtk(though in process of reading), > recently i have > made a control panel extension for sugar i.e font panel which codes be found > at [5]. > The detailed documentation of its making can be found [6]. I also have > worked with > web framework before i.e Rubyonrails. > > > I would like someone to mentor me on this idea, and would love to hear up > from mentors > and developers.
I think this is a very good idea. Automatic tests are strongly needed and the approach you mention seem to me like the best one. Regards and good luck, Tomeu > [1]http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/ > [2]https://launchpad.net/mago > [3]http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/HOWTO > [4]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Yevlempy > [5]http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/yevlempy/commits/973b0bd9def313cf6cf9ffea967c4626ebb9ffc6 > [6]http://yevlempy.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/the-sugar-font-panel/ > > Thanks, > --yev-- > > > -- > yevlempy | Harsh Verma > Fedora Ambassador(INDIA) > http://yevlempy.wordpress.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel