Hi,
I am Ahmed El-Shreif. I am working on improve the UI tesing DSL and the log files for UI action with Markus Mohrhard and Xisco Fauli as my mentors.
I need to discuss about something. First I will explain with small description what I will do during this summer with LO then I will take all opinions about something.
We have now a UI logger for user interaction that you can enable by run this command
LO_COLLECT_UIINFO="test.log" instdir/program/soffice
then it will create a file in instdir/uitest/test.log that record all your actions
last year the approach was to create a python code that work as interpreter starts reading the log file line-by-line and tries to convert the statements into a UI test case.
This year we approach to make a DSL language that we log all user actions in it's grammer and when you run it it internally generate the UI test corresponding to the user actions.
I was intend to use Xtext tool to build this DSL but when I focus more in it's features and advantages I found most of it's advantage related to Eclipse usage as a editor for the new DSL. Which I think not our target. So after searching more I intend to used TextX instead as i found it's implementation and integration with LO will be better.
textX is a Python framework inspired by Xtext. You can define the grammar of your language with a syntax very, very close to the one used by Xtext. textX does not use EMF or generate code but it use instead the metaprogramming power of Python to define classes in memory. While it seems nice and easy to use, textX does not generate editor support like Xtext, so that is a major difference.
I need your opinions about the textX choice.
I am very sorry for this long message.
Thanks
Ahmed ElShreif
nick : shiko
