Simon Strandgaard <neoneye / adslhome.dk> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.03.16.19.11.29.197348 / adslhome.dk>...
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:26:19 +0000, Richard Dale wrote:
> > Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> >> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 02:50:47 +0000, Richard Dale wrote:
> >>> Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> I am curious to if there exists any GUI testing packages for unix.
> >>>> What about fxruby, gnome, qt, fltk ?
> >>>
> >>> I haven't used any UI testing tools in conjunction with QtRuby, but here
> >>> is a note from the qt-interest / trolltech.com mailing list about the
> >>> available ones for Qt.
> >>> If you are researching automatic test tool options, there are several
> >>> other options (Free and commercial) available, here are the ones we know
> >>> about:
> >> [snip KD (KDAB), QtUnit, Squish, LogicaCMG, WinRunner]
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Is any of these available within Ruby?
> > I would be very surprised if any of these have been used with ruby.
> > 
> 
> It surprises me that there isn't any ui-testing supported on unix/ruby.
> However for windows there is:
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=win32-guitest
> 
> 
> >> 
> >> Any clues which of these tools that are best for UI-testing?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I should have mentioned that I'm interested in open-source solutions ;-)
> > What problem are you trying to solve? Is it volume testing? Regression
> > testing? IMO, you would normally choose the UI toolkit with a high quality
> > api that was going to give you the most bug free code, above choosing one
> > which had the best testing environment.
> > 
> 
> Just want to play around with UI-testing. I have never tried it before.
> So there isn't any problems to solve yet ;-)
> Maybe write a chapter about UI-testing with ruby.


for testing web applications check out Web Testing With Ruby
http://rubyforge.org/projects/wtr/

This is a project that uses ruby to control Internet Explorer via its
OLE interface. Its only for Windows though