Re: [cdt-dev] Abbot for SWT

[Brent Nicolle <bnicolle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeremy,

From our intranet, it appears that "Abbot for SWT" is on an internal 
version of SourceForge, and someone is/was seeking approval to release it 
beyond IBM, but that might take time.  (Getting approval for going truly 
open-source is a common affliction it seems.)

I investigated Abbot for SWT last fall and determined that it might be 
good for unit-testing, but not good for black-box testing (and I was/am 
looking for black-box testing).  It has made a little incremental progress 
since then, probably just keeping pace with SourceForge Abbot.

You're right; decent open-source alternatives for automating GUIs are 
probably scarce to non-existent.

Cheers,

- Brent






Jeremy Handcock <handcock@xxxxxxxxxx> 
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There was a discussion on the phone yesterday about GUI testing and
possible alternatives to Rational's tool set.  Open source alternatives
for automating FVT on SWT GUIs seem to be pretty limited, but Abbot for
SWT looks promising:

http://abbot.sourceforge.net

A group at Rational ported Abbot to SWT recently and made their
contributions available upstream.  As I understand it, there's still
more work to be done, but it's a start.

Jeremy
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