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New tool added - T-Plan Robot

T-Plan Robot (formerly known as VNCRobot) is a universal black box automation and automated testing tool working on top of remote desktop technologies such as VNC. Major benefits include platform independence (Java), wide range of testable applications thanks to the generic image based testing approach, support of Java test scripts as well as a proprietary scripting language, Record & Replay capab

Python 3 - tkinter ttk (Tk Themed Widgets) - Blocking Command Example

Here is another example GUI application with ttk in Python 3.1.

This example shows usage of the Button, Text, and Scrollbar widgets, along with some basic layout management using grid().

To use it, enter a URL and click the button. It will send an HTTP GET request to the URL and insert the response headers into the Text widget. You will notice that the GUI is blocked (frozen) while the URL is fetched. This is because all of the work is done in the main event thread. I will show how to use threads for non-blocking events in a future post.

Upcoming Webinar

By James A. Whittaker

If anyone is interested, I am giving a webinar through uTest. It's open to the uTest community and the public. You can register at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/793439307.

I'll be giving a talk about how we do testing at Google, specifically related to an update on our use of exploratory testing that I introduced at STAR East.