Re: [Pyobjc-dev] GUI testing

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 14:01 Europe/Amsterdam, Dinu Gherman 
wrote:

>> 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?

If the application supports loading plugins you could load a dummy 
plugin that is only used as a communication vehicle between the test 
framework and the runloop in the application. Writing plugins that load 
Python code is not too hard, I have done a proof of concept 
implementation some time ago (check the mailinglist archives) and I 
intend to add a supported version of that to the bridge.

Gui testing is probably a bit too much for testing PyObjC, although I'd 
love to see such a tool especially if it uses PyObjC.

BTW. Does anyone have ideas on how to execute some code when 'your' 
NSBundle is loaded. I need this to automaticly initialize the Python 
interpreter when someone loads a Python based bundle. My proof of 
concept uses the +initialize method of a dummy class. That works, but 
would mean that the user must install the Developer Tools when she 
wants to write plugins/preference panes/... in pure python (because you 
cannot have the same class in two different bundles, which would mean 
you'd have to generate a .m file based on a template)

Ronald