26 Aug 2005 titus   » (Journeyer)

Testing X11 apps

cxtest popped up in a /. interview with someone from Crossover Office a while back, and I duly recorded it as something to try. I just checked it out from CVS, built it, and tried it out. Their README instructions worked perfectly, despite their dire prognostications, and I got a recorded script of me testing out xmessage.

Very cool.

I wonder how well it scales? I will have to try it out with my (so far untestable) GUI... Combined with Web testing a la twill and C++ and Python code coverage analysis, I may finally have a soup-to-nuts testing setup available for my application suite.

--titus

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