Announce: Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) 1.5.1 released

[Nagappan A <nagappan gmail com>]

Greetings all,
  We are proud to announce the release of LDTP 1.5.1. This release features
number of important breakthroughs in LDTP as well as in the field of Test
Automation. This release note covers a brief introduction on LDTP followed
by the list of new features and major bug fixes which makes this new version
of LDTP the best of the breed. 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 (C / Python) 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. The framework also has tools
to record test-cases based on user events in the interface of the
application which is under testing. We strive to help in building a quality
desktop.

Whats new in this release:

Bug fixes:

* Fixes b.g.o # 574787, 574789, 574791, 574793
  Bug 574791 – ldtputils.captureimage() ignores coordinate arguments
  Bug 574793 – Use wnck to get window id instead of LTFX (digwin)
  Bug 574787 – LDTP package is not installing correctly
  Bug 574789 – getwindowlist (and others?) don't handle utf8 well

Special thanks to Ara Pulido <ara at ubuntu.com>, Eitan Isaacson  <eitan ascender com> and Michael Terry  <michael terry canonical com>

Download source tarball -
http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/1.x/1.5.x/ldtp-1.5.1.tar.gz
Binary (openSUSE / Ubuntu / Fedora / Debian / RHEL / CentOS / Mandriva) -
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/anagappan/ (Just scheduled
in openSUSE build service, might take time to complete depending upon server
load)

References:

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

For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this
release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/user-doc/index.html

To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list

IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net

Thanks
Nagappan


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