The problem that we try to solve is the time taken to compare the shots after
all the scenarios have been run.
Now, comparing the shots sequentially is done right after the test
finished to run. With -j 1, it won't change anything. With more CPUs, it
will compare while other tests are running, i.e when the CPU is not too
much busy.
The goal is to support applications where editable entries are used.
The problem is the text cursor that, even if we disable its animation
through the theme overlay, triggers the render post event, which breaks
all the previous method used to detect stability.
Now, every 100ms, we compare the current canvas image with the previous
saved shot.
The text cursor creates noise during the shots, as it is an animation.
In order to solve the issue, the theme is overlayed to hide the cursor.
Most of the entry edc file must be overlayed (and not only the cursor
group) because of the internal way edje_cc compiles the theme (kind of
static link).
By executing an application under the player (option
--external-injection), actions can be remotely forwarded.
The communication is done via Eina Debug channel. Therefore, efl_debugd
must be run before the application.
An injection tool has been implemented to show how to communicate with
the application.
The exu doesn't contain the old scenario entries (Variant_st) but the new
(Exactness_Action).
The recorder doesn't create old rec file but only exu.
The player/inspector support rec files by converting them to the new
format internally.
The structures have been tried to be simpler.
The exu is a EET file for Exactness (Exactness Unit). It currently
contains the scenario and the images shots.
exactness_inspect supports it, as well as the player (only as output).
This feature is aimed to provide a new way to debug applications during
scenarios playing.
When a difference happens between two shots of an application, the
investigation can be tough as the cause may be hidden into a tiny
change, such as an update of the theme.
This feature tries to respond to this problem by storing objects of
the application every time a shot is taken. Then during shots comparison,
objects information are compared and differences are displayed on the
screen.
The feature can be used with the -S option.
For the moment, only hierarchy, order and geometry are checked.
During recording, hooking on Evas functions can't work anymore as they
are no more invoked internally.
The new way to catch the events is to listen to them on the canvas.
Additionally, regular mouse events are now multi events whose tool (device id)
is 0, as well as key events with and without keycode are now always
considered with a keycode that can be 0.
Previous events catching has been kept to support legacy applications.
Daniel Zaoui
Daniel Zaoui