GUI Testing with Squish

[PhilScottNGC]

Hi,

Was looking for some advice from anyone who has experience using Squish for GUI testing WinCC OA panels.

I've made a simple test panel which has a few push button objects on, to set a DPE to various values ranging between 0-100.

I've then placed a text field which displays the current value of the DPE, and a rectangle object (just using the standard drawing tools within GEDI) which changes size and colour depending on the DPE value, to imitate a bar graph object.

Using Squish, I'm able to record a test and interact with the push buttons, and the text field, but I cannot seem to get Squish to recognise the rectangle object (I've tried using the object picker, adding a click event to it and selecting it whilst recording etc).

When I click on the rectangle and check the script afterwards, it is just referencing the "PanelQT" itself as opposed to the object.

After reading in the help file about the available QT classes, they all seem to be more complex objects.

Is the problem that the rectangle isn't a QT object? Is there any way to 'see' this object within Squish to verify it's properties?

Any tips much appreciated!

Kind regards,

Phil

[adaneau]

Hi Phil,

Yes you figure it right, you cannot pick primitive objects using squish picker. However they are still accessible using script for some mapped properties (QString foreCol, QString backCol, bool visible, bool enabled, bool selected).

The way to do it (3,16 + squish 6.5.0) and considering that WCCOAui is your AUT:

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function main() 
{
    ctx = startApplication("WCCOAui -proj yourprojectname -p yourpanelname -lang de_AT.utf8 -user root:");

    var panel = waitForObject(":etmPanelAreaPanelQT");
    logProperties(panel.getShape("RECTANGLE1"));  
}

function logProperties(obj)
{
    var text = obj.property("backCol").toString();
    test.log(text);
}

Hope it will help you

BR
Alexandre

[PhilScottNGC]

Hi Phil,

Yes you figure it right, you cannot pick primitive objects using squish picker. However they are still accessible using script for some mapped properties (QString foreCol, QString backCol, bool visible, .....

Hi Alexandre,

Thank you for your reply.

Is this described in any documentation that you know of?

I'm using Python in Squish so have adapted your code as follows:

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import names

def main():

	attachToApplication("WCCOAui")
	
	panel = waitForObject(names.etmPanelArea_Test_Screen_PanelQT)
	logProperties(panel.getShape("RECTANGLE1"))
	
def logProperties(obj):

	text = obj.property("backCol").toString()
	test.log(text)

At the moment, I get a Runtime Error on the last line stating "The first and optional second argument must be of type string" so just trying to work through that, hence the request for documentation. I'm thinkingthe logProperties(panel.getShape("RECTANGLE1")) line isn't working correctly at the moment.

Thanks again,

Phil

[PhilScottNGC]

Had a bit of a play and seems to be working now using the different method of converting to a string in Python.

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def main():

	attachToApplication("WCCOAui")
	
	panel = waitForObject(names.etmPanelArea_Test_Screen_PanelQT)
	logProperties(panel.getShape("RECTANGLE1"))
	
def logProperties(obj):

	text = obj.property("backCol")
	test.log(str(text))