Issue VII - 29 March 2006
Welcome to the seventh issue of LDTP Newsletter! We are now celebrating our 0.4.0 release. This release features exhaustive list of bug fixes. LDTP is now stable than ever before.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 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. Thanks to the Accessibility team. LDTP automation framework helps in automatically executing test cases for verifying the functionality of the software being tested.
This release includes....
* Refined object search from the appmap table * Data XML are now transmitted and received with in CDATA * Reimplemented getwindowlist, getobjectlist, getobjectinfo,getobjectproperty * Memory leak fixed - Freed memory resources when client disconnects
And now take a deep breath and go through the exhaustive list of bug fixes which makes this version of LDTP the most stable of the lot. A special thanks to Patrick from Sun Microsystems who has actively hacked LDTP and helped us identify and resolve many issues.
* client-handler.c (add_item_to_list): A common function to generate XML object list. * client-handler.c (send_response): If data sent in chunks from server to client, then the peek code in client was not able to continue reading the next chunk as the recv with peek option always returns the first chunk. * client-handler.c (handle_request): Implemented getwindowlist, getobjectlist, getobjectinfo, getobjectproperty. Modified initappmap to get the file name from gslist only once. Memory leak fixed - Freed memory resources when client disconnects. * ldtp.c (ldtp_print): Indentation * ldtp-appmap.c (remove_appmap_entries): Memory leak fixed - Freed memory resources when client disconnects. * ldtp-appmap.c (search_obj_after_stripping_space): Added new function to search for an object after stripping spaces. * ldtp-appmap.c (add_child_attributes): Modified it as static function. * ldtp-appmap.c (ldtp_appmap_free): If appmap is not NULL then only traverse the hash table. To avoid a critical warning. * ldtp-appmap.c (search_label_based): Modified the logic to check for label or label_by and also, if under score is in value, then remove it and then look for the match. * ldtp-command.c (ldtp_command_init_command_table): Added getwindowlist, getobjectlist, getobjectinfo, getobjectproperty commands to the list of commands. * ldtp-error.c (ldtp_error_get_error_message): Added new error messages. * ldtp-gui.c (ldtp_gui_get_gui_handle): If appmap is not initialized, then try to initialize it by updating the window handle. * ldtp-gui.c (update_cur_window_appmap_handle): Checked for argument NULL to avoid crash. * ldtp-logger.c (ldtp_log): vprintf also will be printed iff LDTP_DEBUG option is enabled. * ldtp-request.c (ldtp_request_fill_request): When XML packet is NULL don't process further, which avoids a crash. * ldtp-utils.c (escape_character): Modified function name escape_under_score to escape_character and also added one parameter to make this function a generic one. Check if argument is not NULL then continue else return immediately. * remap.c (get_keybinding, filter_appmap_data, get_object_info, add_appmap_data): Checked for NULL arguments to avoid crash. * remap.c (accessible_object_handle): Avoided memory fragmentation as the same data is allocated multiple times.
LDTP 0.4.0 is available is rpm package. Thanks to Damien Carbery and Dave Lin of Sun Microsystems for creating LDTP packages for solaris.
LDTP makes news An article has been published in the German journal "Software-Wydawnictwo Sp. z o.o" about LDTP. If your in Germany, dont let this oppurtunity slip away. Grab a copy and check out the simple article which covers the length and breadth of LDTP.
Downloads...
You can download the latest version of LDTP from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Downloads
LDTP is available as rpm package. LDTP is also available as deb package for Debian and Ubuntu distributions. Thanks to Casanova (prashmohan@gmail.com) for the providing the same.
For a step by step instruction on setting up LDTP please refer http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/How_20to_20setup_20pyldtp_20in_20GNU_2fLinu...
References
For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit http://ldtp.freedesktop.org
All the published newsletters including the current one can be downloaded from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Newsletters
For release notes of every release including the current one please refer http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Release_20Notes
For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/API_20Reference
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