On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Paul Romanyszyn<pgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Austin English wrote: >> >> Howdy all, >> >> For Google Summer of Code, I worked on a project I called Appinstall, >> which is basically an automated test framework for Wine. It works as a >> simple shell script, that runs several independent tests of >> applications, then parses the log files to make sure no applications >> broke, or bugs were fixed. The tests themselves are written using >> AutoHotKey (http://www.autohotkey.com). >> >> The neat thing about AutoHotKey is it takes pretty much no programming >> skill to write a simple test for your favorite application. So if you >> really love Foobar Text Editor, and some past version of Wine made it >> crash, you can prevent that from happening again by writing a test for >> it. That way, daily, Foobar Text Editor is installed and run, to make >> sure it doesn't crash. Of course, if you've got time and/or know of a >> corner case that may break easily, AutoHotKey has a ton of functions >> that allow you to do things like send keystrokes/mouseclicks/etc. to >> make sure those things still work in your app. >> >> If you'd like to give it a try, pick your favorite application (make >> sure it has a public download available), read >> http:/wiki.winehq.org/Appinstall_Testing, and write a test. Be sure to >> read the AutoHotKey documentation at http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/ >> if you're not familiar with it (it's _REALLY_ easy, most of it reads >> like plain English) and to verify the test on Windows first. Don't >> worry about writing really complex tests, just a simple test that >> installs the application, verifies the install, and making sure it >> runs can prevent a lot of bugs (and catch new bugs as well). >> >> If you've got a test ready, please e-mail me directly, and (if it >> works) I'll commit it. >> >> Source is at http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/appinstall/ >> > I have a few Delphi based bugs which have test exe's as bug attachments. > Would a using them or a custom test application attached to a bug be allowed > into these tests? Some of the bugs are 16 bit related and others are too > hard to duplicate with a few lines of windows API as it is something deep > inside the Delphi vcl. Sure, as long as it's a precompiled binary. -- -Austin
