Sunday, February 26, 2012

Announce: Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) 2.3.1 released

About LDTP:

Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework (using GNOME / 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. We strive to help in building a quality desktop.

Changes in this release:

Added twisted gtk3reactor
Operate on window name using index, will be helpful with i18n, l10n testing
at-spi2 related fixes to improve test execution time (Ubuntu 12.04)

Special thanks:
Mike Gorse
VMware Desktop UI automation
Dave Morley
Andre Klapper (i18n / l10n suggestions)

Download source / binary / view docs / Report bugs here / subscribe mailing list

For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit

IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net

Friday, February 17, 2012

Announce: Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) 2.3.0 released

About LDTP:

Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework (using GNOME / 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. We strive to help in building a quality desktop.

Changes in this release:

Added Windows client version for LDTP (Hint: Expect windows version of LDTP soon ;-) )
Updated keycodes based on latest Linux distribution

Bugs fixed:

Fixed twisted gtk2 import in gtk3 environment
Ubuntu 12.04 twisted XMLRPC APIs have been changed, updated accordingly

Special thanks:
Mike Gorse
VMware Desktop UI automation
Tim Miao
Michael Terry
Brain Nitz
Andre Klapper (i18n / l10n suggestions)
Gurdun (To run LDTP from Robot Framework)
Mardy (To run LDTP in QT environment)

Download source

Download RPM
Will schedule deb build in openSUSE build service later

Documentation references:

For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit

Check LDTP APIs

Report bugs

To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists

IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net