Re: platform compatibility policy

[Michael Hoennig (mi) <mi sun com>]

Hi Sam,

> > One concern at the moment is that we don't even have a reasonable test
> > harness for automated testing of GUI stuff.
> >
> > I know with the help of some QA people at Sun we're starting to
> > address these issues, but we're far from having them solved...
>
> Really?  Are people working on automated testing of GUI apps?  

Not only working on, practicing it!

> Are
> they under specific order not to talk to AbiWord people (or Gnumeric
> people, etc)?  

Not that I knew.

> We would really benifit from automatic testing, and
> would love to talk to people working on it.

I doubt. The automated GUI testing is a VCL (OpenOffice's GUI abstraction 
layer) feature. I don't know if the test scripts and tools itself are 
open source, but the base for this feature is in VCL. Check 
http://gsl.openoffice.org.

	Michael