Re: [Audacity-devel] Promising results using AutoIt3 to automate regression tests on Audacity

[David W. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi Michael

AutoIt3 is native windows, and I don't think .au3 files are recognised by
anything else. However, here is a link from someone who has run it
successfully on linux under wine. May not be 100% compatibility though.

http://www.scripticon.com/2008/07/my-first-windows-script-in-linux/

Best Regards
David

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Michael Chinen <mc...@gm...> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:31 PM, David Wallace
> <dav...@gm...> wrote:
> > Attached is the AutoId3 script Audacity10.au3 that I used to run a
> > regression test suite on some recent patches I have submitted. The
> patches
> > related to bugs 419 and 421 for the file import functions of Audacity.
> The
> > regression tests involve importing all the different file formats,
> playing
> > them briefly to see if they sound right, and saving their Audacity log
> > files, which show the order the filters have been loaded, and which
> filter
> > was used to import each file.
> >
> > Before running this script, first modify it so that $audacityPath is set
> to
> > the path to your own copy of Audacity.exe. Modify also the default start
> > locations used by the 3 browser dialogs to suitable valid directories on
> > your system. After running it you will get these 3 folder browser dialogs
> > popping up for:
> >
> > the folder for all the music files are that you are testing
> > the folder where you want to store the logs of all the "good" imports
> > the folder where you want to store the logs of all the "bad" imports
> >
> > Then you just listen to each file in turn, deciding whether it sounds ok
> > ("good") or not ("bad"). Logs for files which fail to import at all
> > automatically go in the "bad" folder, but their names begin with
> > "Import_Error_" to distinguish them from the logs for the  corrupt
> imports.
> >
> > If you are re-running the script with the same input and output settings
> as
> > you did previously, the previous log files you stored just get
> overwritten.
> >
> > I ran this on Windows 7 SP1 on a 64 bit machine. I did not use mapped
> > drives, as they don't seem to work by default in AutoId3, although I
> > understand this can be overcome.
>
> I agree that we could use some automated testing, and this seems
> interesting.
>
> However, this software seems to be windows only - let us know if .au3
> files are used by some other software as well.
> I only use windows once in a while, and I think not all devs/qa folk
> have windows.
>
> Best,
>
> Michael
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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