Re: [egit-dev] GUI testing

[Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Robin Rosenberg
<robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I want to raise this topic again. I submitted a patch for doing some tests
> using SWTBot, which worked marvelously for me on Linux, but not for
> Shawn on OS X.
>
> Does anyone have any insight into this area and the official status of SWTBot
> for testing Eclipse.

It might be the case that the OSX in question needs to enable
assistive access. System Preferences -> Universal Access ->  Enable
access for assistive devices. This permits programs to introspect the
state of the UI remotely by sending events, which is possibly how
SWTBot works on Mac OS X.

http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/uiscripting/index.html
http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.21/21.06/UserInterfaceScripting/index.html

Alex