Squish Supports New Eclipse “Ganymede” 3.4

Froglogic has announced support for automated testing of Java Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications based on the new Eclipse 3.4 release code named Ganymede.Squish for Java is a leading functional GUI and regression testing tool enabling the creation and execution of automated GUI tests for Java SWT/RCP and AWT/Swing applications.

Squish, and all tests created with it, are completely cross-platform and work on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X and embedded Linux.

Support for testing Eclipse 3.4 RCP applications has been completed and is available with the just released Squish 3.4 version.

“The availability of 3rd party tools, such as GUI testing tools, is vital for the Eclipse community. We are glad to see froglogic quickly adopting new Eclipse releases with its Squish GUI test tool”, said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation.

“The Ganymede release is another great release of the Eclipse community which will make it even more attractive for application developers. Quickly adding support for testing Eclipse 3.4 based applications with Squish has been a logical step for us.”, said Harri Porten, froglogic’s platform chief.

Squish offers a versatile testing framework for GUI applications with a choice of popular test scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, Tcl, TSL and Perl) extended by test-specific functions, open interfaces, add-ons, integrations into test management tools, a powerful IDE aiding the creation and debugging of tests and a set of command line tools and test management integrations facilitating fully automated test runs.

Squish also supports automated testing of applications based on GUI technologies such as Swing/AWT, Trolltech’s Qt and Qtopia, Web/DOM/HTML/AJAX, Mac OS X Carbon/Cocoa and others.

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