Would need feedback about latest jDiffChaser (GUI diff tests)

[Jerome Layat]

Hi,

I've just released a new version of jDiffChaser, a GPL tool that
automatically takes and compares screenshots from the latest
production version of your swing app and the current development
version to automatically highlight changes.
We're using it for in-house projects that use swing gui and decided to
release it as an OSS months ago to share it with people that may need
such a tool. No pretension at all, this is a small simple visual
testing tool (we're still improving it) that help us finding changes
in successive versions of our graphical interfaces, and we just think
that it could help some other development teams.
The 0.5.1 version was kind of too "young", I hope this 0.8 version is
better to play with and try it. It would be cool if some of you could
test it and give us some feedback on it (about the package, the
documentation provided, the tool itself, the feature we could add to
it...).

You can find it on: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jdiffchaser

Thank you for posting feedbacks on the project forum

Thanks in advance to all for your help.

Changelog for v0.8 is:

- Full screen capture (allows multiple window applications to be
tested, window moves to be tested,...)
- Delay before screenshot (if needed, 0 sec. delay is the default one)
- No need of bsh anymore to build jDiffChaser using ant
- Fix of a focus bug when having the end-of-recording dialog displaying
- Some waiting dialogs added in order to give some better UI feedback
to the user.
- Frames and dialogs moves are handled
- Native libraries are only used when using java < 1.5 on Windows in
order to have always on top dialogs (Remote Control frame and waiting
dialogs). Consequently, OS X and probably other java-enabled platforms
are now supported through java 1.5+ (Note that we need feedback from
Linux users as we still didn't do some tests with it)
- Report details: when clicking on an image, now allows to browse the
three images of the scenario (first one, second one and diffs one)
with previous/next buttons
- Needs jdk 1.5+ to build a jar file that you can use either on hosts
running Windows with 1.4.2 java or any OS with 1.5+ java
- Fixes an OSX application restart bug that occurred when playing gui
scenarios suites
- Remote Control frame can be translucent: useful when recording full
screen applications scenarios