freedesktop - Dec 2006 - [fdo] Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) 0.7.0 released

We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 0.7.0. This release features number
of important breakthroughs in LDTP as well as in the field of Test Automation.
This release note covers a brief introduction on LDTP followed by the list of
new features and major bug fixes which makes this new version of LDTP the best
of the breed. Useful references have been included at the end of this article
for those who wish to hack / use LDTP.

About LDTP
=========
Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test automation
framework (C/Python) and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test Linux
Desktop and improve it. It uses the Accessibility libraries to poke through the
application's user interface. The framework also has tools to record
test-cases based on user events in the interface of the
application which is under testing. We strive to help in building a quality
desktop.

Whats new in this release...
===================+ Major performance enhancement
    In this release major contribution from Rodney Dawes 
<dobey@novell.com>. Valgrinded LDTP engine and fixed lot of memory leaks
in LDTP and improved the performance.

+ Major rewritten of LDTP Error structure, LDTP Command structure.

+ Now LDTP uses python logging module.

+ Bug fixes
    This version includes loads of bug fixes to address important issues like
memory leak, API functionality, accessibility compatible issues etc., For a
detailed list please refer to release notes section of our project site hosted
in http://ldtp.freedesktop.org. Thanks to all the developers for their
contribution and Rodney Dawes (dobey) especially.

Download source tarball -
http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/0.x/0.7.x/ldtp-0.7.0.tar.gz

LDTP news
========
* Accessibility test suite by Rodney Dawes (dobey) -
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/ldtp/a11y-test-suite/
* LDTP Presentation in FOSS.IN/2006 by Prashanth Mohan, Bangalore, India

LDTP Recording demo
============
Record / Playback of scripts -
http://people.freedesktop.org/~nagappan/ldtpguidemo.html

References
=========
For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org

For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this release
can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html

To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list

IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net

For suggestions to improve this newsletter, please write to
jpremkumar@novell.com


Nagappan A <anagappan@novell.com>
Linux Desktop Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.org
http://nagappanal.blogspot.com

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