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GNU/Linux Desktop Testing Project
Nagappan writes "The GNU/Linux Desktop Testing Project (GNU/LDTP) is aimed at producing high quality test automation framework and cutting-edge tools that can be used to test GNU/Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the 'Accessibility' libraries to poke through the application's user interface. The framework has tools to generate 'AppMap' by reading through the user interface components of an application. The framework also has tools to record test-cases based on user-selection on the application. As of now, GNU/LDTP can test any GNOME application which is accessibility enabled: Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, any Java application (UI based on swing) and KDE 4.0 applications based on QT 4.0. We encourage you to join the project and help us to create robust, reliable and stable test tool/framework for Linux Desktops. Thanks to Luis Villa for trying to integrate GNU/LDTP with GNOME tinderbox."
>> Hopefully the khtml developers will be embarrassed enough...
> Wow. What a great way to motivate people!
> You must be a manager right?
> But I do believe that there are more efficient
> ways of motivating people than by embarrassment.
At my work, we have a lighthearted "hat of shame" that developers must put on their desk if they break the build or cause a test to fail. It stays there, visible to all until the problem is fixed.
It works wonders, but only because we're all in the same location and can see who has it on their desk. For distributed opensource development over the internet, perhaps a similar badge of shame could be implemented by displaying a small icon of a silly hat or a cockroach next to a developer's name when they post in a forum?
The trick is to give some motivation (to remove a silly little tag), but not overwhelm or piss them off. It has to be done in good humor.