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Mon, 12 September 2005 11:04

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: thorsten_i.yahoo.com

Hello,

the Automated GUI Recorder looks really interesting and might be the tool
I'm looking for. But I have some questions concerning the tool:
1. How stable and reliable is the current version?
2. Is an RCP Plugin of AGR planned? And if so is it planned in the near
future?
3. I tried to follow the examples in
http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/test/documents/userguides/Intro- Auto-GUI.html.
I got as far as section 2.2.3. But when I tried to run the test suite in
standard mode, the process always got stuck at some point but didn't throw
any error messages. Did anyone have the same experience?

Thanks for your help,

Thorsten

Re: Automated GUI Recorder [message #30832 is a reply to message #30721]

Mon, 12 September 2005 21:12

Eclipse User

See below for answers to your questions

"Thorsten" <thorsten_i@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:193ae9b8f92d3da219ce91908f11c196$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hello,
>
> the Automated GUI Recorder looks really interesting and might be the tool
> I'm looking for. But I have some questions concerning the tool:
> 1. How stable and reliable is the current version?

The reason why it is introduced as a tech preview item is to make the code
more stable. There are a few known limitations (such as not being able to
record events from dialogs that have a native implementation. For example
the 'browse' dialog). I will be improving the code as I go on. There are
two new bugzilla components open that you can use to report your defects to:
Test.Execution.AutoGUIRunner and Test.UI.AutoGUIRunner.

> 2. Is an RCP Plugin of AGR planned? And if so is it planned in the near
> future?
You're not the first to ask. An RCP version of this tool will be very
useful. You can open an enhancement for this but I can't say when something
like this will be completed.

> 3. I tried to follow the examples in
> http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/test/documents/userguides/Intro- Auto-GUI.html.
> I got as far as section 2.2.3. But when I tried to run the test suite in
> standard mode, the process always got stuck at some point but didn't throw
> any error messages. Did anyone have the same experience?

What build are you using? There is a known issue with the stable build
TPTP-4.1.0-200509090100. Switch to a development build if you're using the
stable build (you can probably get away by replacing the tech preview item
as opposed to downloading everything again)

What percentage does it get stalled at? This is important because I need to
know what phase in the test execution harness it stalls in

Are you able to run a manual test suite? If not, then there is something
wrong with the test execution harness.

>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Thorsten
>
>

Re: Automated GUI Recorder [message #30865 is a reply to message #30832]

Tue, 13 September 2005 04:33

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: thorsten_i.yahoo.com

Thank you for the super quick answer.
I'm using the AGR version TPTP-4.1.0-200509120100. I am able to run the
quick mode, but in the standard mode it stops at 54%. But you're right, I
should just try the stable version.

Thanks very much,
Regards,
Thorsten

Re: Automated GUI Recorder [message #30900 is a reply to message #30832]

Tue, 13 September 2005 05:21

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: thorsten_i.yahoo.com

Thanks for the quick respone. Concerning question no. 3:
I used TPTP-4.1.0-200509120100 before but now I tried version
TPTP-4.1.0-200509090100 as well. Still the same problem. The process stops
at 54%, when I terminate it, it jumps to 66% and reports an error saying:
IWAT4039E The Test Execution Harness reported the following problems:
org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException.

Does that have something to do with the agent controller?

Thanks again,
Thorsten

Re: Automated GUI Recorder [message #30935 is a reply to message #30900]

Tue, 13 September 2005 11:13

Eclipse User

Hi Thorsten,

I think you misread my response. There is a known issue with the technology
preview in the stable build TPTP-4.1.0-200509090100 so you should avoid
using this build if you're downloading the tech preview item.

And your guess is right. This is caused by the agent controller. You
probably can't run manual/URL/Junit test suites either. When you downloaded
this build, did you also update the agent controller? I have run into this
problem before and it is usually because I'm using a stale version of the
agent controller.

I just got a copy of build TPTP-4.1.0-200509120100 and everything worked
fine on my machine. Make sure that you get the agent controller from this
build as well. If you're still running into problems, then try opening
<AC-HOME>/config/serviceconfig.xml and changing the filePort to an unused
port.

If all fails, then attach <AC-HOME>/config/servicelog.log to this message.

"Thorsten" <thorsten_i@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:6b1d2fc62831cefe731ad018c48b5c2d$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Thanks for the quick respone. Concerning question no. 3:
> I used TPTP-4.1.0-200509120100 before but now I tried version
> TPTP-4.1.0-200509090100 as well. Still the same problem. The process stops
> at 54%, when I terminate it, it jumps to 66% and reports an error saying:
> IWAT4039E The Test Execution Harness reported the following problems:
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException.
>
> Does that have something to do with the agent controller?
> Thanks again,
> Thorsten

Re: Automated GUI Recorder [message #31549 is a reply to message #30935]

Thu, 15 September 2005 11:47

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: thorsten_i.yahoo.com

Hello Ali,

I'm surprised who fast and thorough your responses are - thank you. Your
advice was correct and I got the AGR up and running. I'm really interested
in the development of AGR and I think about giving a small presentation to
my colleagues about this tool. So can you give me any more information
than it is stated in the introduction site about AGR?

Appreciate your help,
Thorsten

Re: Automated GUI Recorder [message #31619 is a reply to message #31549]

Fri, 16 September 2005 10:21

Eclipse User

Hi Thorsten,

The only added feature since the creation of the intro document is the
ability to record artificial wait times. When you add a new test case, you
will notice a new toggle tool-bar button in the control center dialog that
allows the user to record wait times between the user actions.

For example: If this option is on and the user clicks on a checkmark, waits
500 milliseconds and checks the second check mark, then the wait time is
recorded as a command in the following format: <command type="wait"
time-to-wait="500"/>. You may have previously noticed the following command
<command type="wait"/> in your macro before. This command does a wait
until all non-system Eclipse jobs are completed. If the time-to-wait
attribute is present, then it waits the number of milliseconds specified.

In addition to this feature, I have eliminated a number of bugs and added in
a better error handling mechanism.

"Thorsten" <thorsten_i@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:0ee12a751042552fb748b5d4f7dad3b0$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hello Ali,
>
> I'm surprised who fast and thorough your responses are - thank you. Your
> advice was correct and I got the AGR up and running. I'm really interested
> in the development of AGR and I think about giving a small presentation to
> my colleagues about this tool. So can you give me any more information
> than it is stated in the introduction site about AGR?
>
> Appreciate your help,
> Thorsten

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