QA/test automation guide

Introduction

VCLAuto is a Java library for OpenOffice UI/functional testing like VCL TestTool. VCLAuto can be used with JUnit. The project is under developing and will be released in Apache OpenOffice 4.0.

Code

Write UI testing case like the following:

public class UITest {
 
  @Before
  public void setUp() throws Exception() {
    initApp();
  }
 
  @Test
  public void test() throws Exception() {
    // Create a new text document via main menu
    startcenter.menuItem("File->New->Text Document").select();
    typeKeys("Hello OpenOffice");
    writer.menuItem("Edit->Select All").select();
    // Copy the text
    typeKeys("<$copy>");
    assert("Text is inputted successfully.", "Hello OpenOffice", App.getClipboard());
  }
 
  @After
  public void tearDown() throws Exception() {
 
  }
 
}

Use Apache Ant to Run Testing and Generate Report