[abbot-users] Capturing and replaying mouse motion

[Jean-Francois P. <jfp...@ya...>]

Hello,

I am still going on further with the GUI tests of the
HiveBoard application.
Currently I am testing the "drawing tools", so far
everything was fine, but now I am testing the "free
hand drawing" tool which works a follows:
1- user presses mouse button 1
2- user moves mouse to draw (all events are listened
to by the application to actually draw)
3- user releases mouse button 1

I tried to record such a sequence with Costello (I
have used the "Capture all actions (incuding mouse
motion)" menu). But strangely the only recorded steps
in my script are:
- drag
- drop
surrounded by mousemove events (but no mouse_move
event between drag and drop steps).

Question 1 => Is this normal behavior of Costello? Is
there a way to have actual recording of these events?

Ok, so I tried to "trick" Costello: I captured all
actions (no mouse move), I clicked on several points,
faking to draw some shape on the board; I saved the
script and I changed it by hand, added a drag at the
beginning and a drop at the end, replace all clicks by
mouse_move events.
Then I tried to run the script under Costello, this
seems to work but...
Events are played too fast by Costello! My application
could only draw the first 4 mouse moves then it drew a
straight line!

I could eventually make this work by setting "slow
display" in Costello.
The next problem is that simulating a smooth draw
(based on mouse motion) through mouse clicks is not as
smooth as I would like (I end up with several small
line segments drawing my curve).

Question 2 => is there a better way to have really
smooth recording of motion events in Costello?

Anyway, let's go on; I keep this trick for the time
being, even though the drawing is not very smooth. Nex
issue: this script is part of a big sequence of test
scripts (currently a few dozens, but up to one hundred
when I have covered all major use cases), and I don't
want all my tests to be executed at slow pace!

Question 3 => would it be possible to have a "slow"
attribute settable in a "sequence" tag?

I have worked around that problem by putting the mouse
motion events (+drag/drop) into a script that has the
"slow" attribute set to true, and including this
script in the other part of the script (the part that
would initialize user settings before starting to
draw).
This is a bit heavy but it works! 
However, the slow mode is too slow (;-))

Question 4 => Is it possible to tune the pace of
events when the "slow" attribut is set (without
affecting other tests in normal mode?)

Ok, that's a lot of questions! I thank you in advance
for any feedback.

Cheers

Jean-Francois



	

	
		
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