LDTP 0.4.0 released !!!

Issue VII - 29 March 2006

Welcome to the seventh issue of LDTP Newsletter! We are now
celebrating
our 0.4.0 release. This release features
exhaustive list of bug fixes. LDTP is now stable than ever
before.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 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. Thanks to the Accessibility team. LDTP
automation
framework helps in automatically executing test cases
for verifying the functionality of the software being
tested.

This release includes....

* Refined object search from the appmap table
* Data XML are now transmitted and received with in CDATA
* Reimplemented getwindowlist, getobjectlist,
getobjectinfo,getobjectproperty
* Memory leak fixed - Freed memory resources when client
disconnects

And now take a deep breath and go through the exhaustive
list of bug
fixes which makes this version of LDTP the most stable of
the lot.
A special thanks to Patrick from Sun Microsystems who has
actively
hacked LDTP and helped us identify and resolve many issues.

      * client-handler.c (add_item_to_list): A common
function to
       generate XML object list.
       * client-handler.c (send_response):  If data sent in
chunks
from
       server to client, then the peek code in client was
not able to
       continue reading the next chunk as the recv with peek
option
       always returns the first chunk.
       * client-handler.c (handle_request): Implemented
getwindowlist,
       getobjectlist, getobjectinfo, getobjectproperty.
Modified
       initappmap to get the file name from gslist only
once. Memory
leak
       fixed - Freed memory resources when client
disconnects.
       * ldtp.c (ldtp_print): Indentation
       * ldtp-appmap.c (remove_appmap_entries): Memory leak
fixed -
Freed
       memory resources when client disconnects.
       * ldtp-appmap.c (search_obj_after_stripping_space):
Added new
       function to search for an object after stripping
spaces.
       * ldtp-appmap.c (add_child_attributes): Modified it
as static
       function.
       * ldtp-appmap.c (ldtp_appmap_free): If appmap is not
NULL then
       only traverse the hash table. To avoid a critical
warning.
       * ldtp-appmap.c (search_label_based): Modified the
logic to
check
       for label or label_by and also, if under score is in
value,
then
       remove it and then look for the match.
       * ldtp-command.c (ldtp_command_init_command_table):
Added
       getwindowlist, getobjectlist, getobjectinfo,
getobjectproperty
       commands to the list of commands.
       * ldtp-error.c (ldtp_error_get_error_message): Added
new error
       messages.
       * ldtp-gui.c (ldtp_gui_get_gui_handle): If appmap is
not
       initialized, then try to initialize it by updating
the window
       handle.
       * ldtp-gui.c (update_cur_window_appmap_handle):
Checked for
       argument NULL to avoid crash.
       * ldtp-logger.c (ldtp_log): vprintf also will be
printed iff
       LDTP_DEBUG option is enabled.
       * ldtp-request.c (ldtp_request_fill_request): When
XML packet
is
       NULL don't process further, which avoids a crash.
       * ldtp-utils.c (escape_character): Modified function
name
       escape_under_score to escape_character and also added
one
       parameter to make this function a generic one. Check
if
argument
       is not NULL then continue else return immediately.
       * remap.c (get_keybinding, filter_appmap_data,
get_object_info,
       add_appmap_data): Checked for NULL arguments to avoid
crash.
       * remap.c (accessible_object_handle): Avoided memory
fragmentation
       as the same data is allocated multiple times.


LDTP 0.4.0 is available is rpm package. Thanks to Damien
Carbery and
Dave Lin of
Sun Microsystems for creating LDTP packages for solaris.

LDTP makes news
An article has been published in the German journal
"Software-Wydawnictwo Sp. z o.o" about LDTP.
If your in Germany, dont let this oppurtunity slip away.
Grab a copy
and check out the simple article
which covers the length and breadth of LDTP.

Downloads...

You can download the latest version of LDTP from
http://ldt
p.freedesktop.org/wiki/Downloads

LDTP is available as rpm package. LDTP is also available as
deb package
for Debian and Ubuntu distributions. Thanks to Casanova
(prashmohangmail.com) for the providing the same.

For a step by step instruction on setting up LDTP please
refer
http://ldtp.freedeskt
op.org/wiki/How_20to_20setup_20pyldtp_20in_20GNU_2fLinux_20e
nvironment


References

For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest
updates visit
http://ldtp.freedesktop.o
rg

All the published newsletters including the current one can
be
downloaded from http://l
dtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Newsletters

For release notes of every release including the current one
please
refer http
://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Release_20Notes

For information on various APIs in LDTP including those
added for this
release can be got from http
://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/API_20Reference


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Linux Desktop Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.o
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