Re: [Pyobjc-dev] GUI testing

[Dinu G. <gh...@da...>]

I wrote:

> Some stuff can certainly be done using NSControl.performClick_(sender)
> which every interactive widget should understand. So you can fill in
> relevant data into things like textviews, set sliders and so on, and
> then make the final "Go" button be magically pressed. Eventually, you
> need to read out the widgets or whatever else that should have chan-
> ged.
>
> I just tried this with simgle widgets and it looks promissing, but
> it could also become very challenging for complex widgets like NS-
> TableView, -OutlineView and basically anything deeply structured.

Of course, the real challenge would be to trigger the tests from
*outside* the tested application! Honestly, I have no idea if it
is possible to get a handle on a running application from outside,
perhaps via notifications posted by NSApplication?

Dinu

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