[Even though this information is more relevant to developers I'm reply to the user list where the parent message was posted.]
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Bryce Harrington wrote:
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that area. John Waugh of Ubuntu told me about something called 'Dogtail' that sounds like it's a powerful way to do testing, and suggested we use that for Inkscape.
I posted about Dogtail[1] on the testing list a while back. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8570007&forum_id=...
To describe it as briefly as possible Dogtail uses the accessibility framework (at-spi) to allow automated testing. The system is written in Python as are the testing scripts. (LDTP[2] is an alternative accessibility based testing tool which might also be worth investigating.)
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
[1] Dogtail http://people.redhat.com/zcerza/dogtail/ [2] LDTP http://gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/