Hi all,
Yesterday I was chatting with a friend whose research group has developed TESTAR (http://www.pros.upv.es/index.php/es/about-testar), a tool for automatic testing of applications GUI. She showed me some interesting use cases and I found the tool very useful because with a little setup effort is able to foresee potential bad working points and this helps to build a better application. It relays on accessibility and usability standards. This couldn’t be bad. 
If you think is worth to use it with Jalview, let me know and I’ll try to do some tests to see what happens. Or even if you consider that having a videoconference just to get it touch and know in first hand what is this, let me know you availibility and I’ll try to coordinate a meeting.
Cheers,
David
Hi David,
Could be worth a look. As you say, it relies on the application conforming to an accessibility API.
@Jim - does it??
cheers
mungo
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Subject: [Jalview-dev] Jalview GUI automatic testing
Hi all,
Yesterday I was chatting with a friend whose research group has developed TESTAR (http://www.pros.upv.es/index.php/es/about-testar), a tool for automatic testing of applications GUI. She showed me some interesting use cases and I found the tool very useful because with a little setup effort is able to foresee potential bad working points and this helps to build a better application. It relays on accessibility and usability standards. This couldn’t be bad.
If you think is worth to use it with Jalview, let me know and I’ll try to do some tests to see what happens. Or even if you consider that having a videoconference just to get it touch and know in first hand what is this, let me know you availibility and I’ll try to coordinate a meeting.
Cheers,
David
Nope. Jalview is research software … we’ve never had the resources to even consider it. Since its primary role is visualization, it is also of limited use to blind or very partially sighted people without significant thought about alternative data representation mechanisms.
We will certainly consider an automated system, but it should come in with the gui implementation reengineering.
J.
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On 25 Sep 2014 08:30, “Mungo Carstairs” <g.m.carstairs@dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi David,
Could be worth a look. As you say, it relies on the application conforming to an accessibility API.
@Jim - does it??
cheers
mungo
From: jalview-dev-bounces@jalview.org <jalview-dev-bounces@jalview.org> on behalf of David Roldán Martínez <darolmar@gmail.com>
Sent: 25 September 2014 07:35
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Subject: [Jalview-dev] Jalview GUI automatic testing
Hi all,
Yesterday I was chatting with a friend whose research group has developed TESTAR (http://www.pros.upv.es/index.php/es/about-testar), a tool for automatic testing of applications GUI. She showed me some interesting use cases and I found the tool very useful because with a little setup effort is able to foresee potential bad working points and this helps to build a better application. It relays on accessibility and usability standards. This couldn’t be bad. 
If you think is worth to use it with Jalview, let me know and I’ll try to do some tests to see what happens. Or even if you consider that having a videoconference just to get it touch and know in first hand what is this, let me know you availibility and I’ll try to coordinate a meeting.
Cheers,
David
The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096
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