VNCRobot is a free and easy to use application for automated software testing based on VNC technology which enables to program, verify and reproduce behavior of a remote computer via RFB protocol and generate a comprehensive report.
VNC is a remote control software which allows you to view and interact with one computer (the "server") using a simple program (the "viewer") on another computer anywhere on the Internet.
In simple words you can see the server's desktop (also called "frame buffer") in your viewer and you can operate the server as if you were working on a local machine.
The viewer actually sends all your mouse pointer moves, clicks and drags and keys typed on your keyboard to the server which sends back updates of the remote desktop.
VNCRobot is an extension of VNC viewer. Apart from standard viewer functions it provides a scripting language which can simulate any user action and send the appropiate messages to the server.
For example, if you want to type a text on your server, you may type it in a standard way in the viewer or use a VNCRobot script command to type the text for you.
There are commands for mouse moves, clicks and drags too. You may also take screenshots of your desktop, check for desktop updates, verify the result of your actions and many more.
These features allow you to write a script consisting of such commands and execute it repeatedly to reproduce a task, for example testing of a software product.
Here are some key features of "T-Plan Robot (formerlly VNCRobot)":
· Image based black box GUI automated testing taking advatage of remote desktop technologies
· Open architecture with a plugin mechanism, public Java APIs and comprehensive GUI and CLI
· Support of Java test scripts as well as a proprietary scripting language.
· Support of automation multithreading
· Ability to perform black box GUI testing of Windows Mobile applications directly on mobile phones (using PocketVNC)
· Record & Replay capability
Requirements:
· Java 1.5 and higher
· 128 MB RAM or higher
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New features:
· Comparison component improvements
· Provide dimensions of matching template as variables
Enterprise bug fixes:
· The Enterprise report provider employed from Java test scripts showed "Line number: NaN" in report screen shot descriptions. As tracking of code line in binary Java code is not supported, the text was removed.
· The report XSL contained a bug which showed incorrect template names in screenshot descriptions.
· Fixed a bug in "WaitFor match" and image search integration caused slower performance or even failing comparison results.
Bug fixes ported from open source 2.0.1 version:
· The 'for' statement crashes on numeric expression
· Screenshot method call with templates fails
· Editor err and exec highlighting fails for Java
· Document JDK installation
· Press can not handle plus character
· Clarify role of -v/--variable CLI option in Java tests
· DefaultJavaTestScript issues
· Pressing of certain keys fails
· Composed mouse drags not supported
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