Features

• Capture & Replay Functionality
• Included Front Ends
• Annotation of Records
• GUI Testing
• Analysis of User Behavior
• Animated Demonstrations
• Changing GUIs
• Flexible Component Engine
• Modular Structure and Extensibility
• Customization and Logging
• Open Source

Capture & Replay Functionality

• capturing mouse events and key events, but also window events, focus events, and many more event types
• realtime and fixed time replay
• replaying with a real mouse pointer, a pseudo mouse pointer, or with no mouse pointer
• marking locations during replay
• fast forward replay
• replaying on real applications (macro functionality)
• selective replay of single record parts (replay steps)
• storing records in different formats (XML, serialized). More formats will come in future.

Included Front Ends

• CleverPHL as comfortable graphical front end for Jacareto.
• Picorder as command line tool for the fast capture&replay-process.

Annotation of Records

• adding text annotations to the record
• play back of audio clips while replaying user actions

GUI Testing

• adding test elements to the record
• creating test reports
• storing test reports as xml files
• batch replay

Analysis of User Behavior

• Qualitative analysis of user behavior by automatically structuring the record
• detecting user behavior on different levels
• quantitative data analysis by extracing data sets from a record and storing them in a CSV file (comma separated values) or in a xls file (Excel sheet) to analyze them in other applications (statistical software packages, for example)
• possibility to define own structure elements which represent special user behavior
• structure type definition for the specification of different structure mechanisms

Animated Demonstrations

• action sequences can be replayed to show demonstrate software usage
• replay processes can be embedded into own software to include animated demonstrations

Changing GUIs

• Drawing directly on graphical user interfaces to highlight elements
• Enabling and disabling of GUI components without programming

Flexible Component Engine

• handling of Java applications and applets.
• for many target applications, no changes in code are necessary
• modules which handle special GUI components
• automatic inspection of the target application's component hierarchy
• detection of new components and changed component trees while capturing and replaying
• possibility to set names of components from outside without changing source code

Modular Structure and Extensibility

• modular replay concept: replay modules handle special event types
• event masks help specifying which events should be captured
• starter modules for starting the target applications
• editors for editing the record elements after events have been captured
• interfaces for capturing semantic events of the target application

Customization and Logging

• Customization with XML files
• Logging and debugging with Log4J

Open Source

• It's an open source project. You can use Jacareto for free, and you are invited to participate and to extend the features of Jacareto, CleverPHL and Picorder!