TkTest - A GUI Test package for Tcl/Tk

TkTest allows you to generate a GUI test by recording windows events while you use your application and taking data snapshots.

The recorded events can be replayed, and the saved snapshots compared to the test application state at runtime.

This is a beta 0.95 release. It's been known to work, but is not guaranteed to work under all circumstances. If you find a problem (or better, a solution to a problem), I'll be happy to hear about it.

History

1.2 Release Improved GUI for adding "ignore" events. Added Menu item to remove events that can break replay. Add support for 'proc' level coverage with -coverage 1 option when using a .scr file Improved "Detail" display Support for more widgets. HTML help
0.95 Release Added support for handwritten ".dir" files. Added a results viewer to better display complex fail conditions. Generic bug fixes. Add support for introspecting into menus Add support for tktable widgets. Add minimal support for treeview widgets. Add support for Checkbutton and Radiobutton widgets Add support for panedWIndow and notebook. Add support for genericizing .tkr scripts. Add support for color-independent checks.
0.8 Release

Better display of fail conditions when introspection finds problems.
Individual tkr scripts that find introspection issues are highlighted in pink in the control script tab.
Added a Generalize menu item to Control Script/Edit to remove full path info and make an .scr and associated .tkr files relocatable. This makes it possible for a developer to make a test script and then include it with a subsystem for testing on other platforms.
0.7 Release Fixed a glitch that caused crashes or superfluous menu displays when the cursor entered a menubar widget. Added info to error report in Tcl command introspection. Changed menubar to frame/menubuttons to make the application safe for Mac OS. Changed the Alpha to Beta. Tktest is getting use outside of my lab and is performing adequately.
0.6 Escape Fixed bug in Window instrospection of labels. Improved discrepency reporting.
0.5 Escape Added support for renaming the target for a event script. Add support for waiting for an event in the target application. This allows the test to synchronize with events that take an indeterminate length of time. Increased the number of non-native tk widgets that can be processed by adding more pure-Tk work-alikes (not look-alikes).
0.4 Escape Fix for comparing output with many spaces. Support for comparing contents of text widgets.
0.3 Escape Fixed replay problems with menu/checkbutton events. Added support for checking window contents

Known Problems:

Fails to replay/record menu/checkbutton events.
Believed fixed in 0.3 escape
Cross platform testing fails on Menubutton on Windows 2K using TOBE.
This is believed fixed in 0.2 escape
The section of the paper discussing Menu's on Windows is wrong. When I figure out how the code needs to work, I'll rewrite that paper section.
Believed to be correct in current paper