Stb-tester news, product announcements & testing topics.
The optional else clause after a for loop is an obscure Python feature that
is surprisingly useful when writing automated GUI tests.
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The Stb-tester Python APIs are now available on PyPI (the Python Package Index) so that you can install them on your development PC — it doesn’t matter if you’re using Windows, MacOS, or Linux. Read more...
In part 1 we created a Page Object that knows how to identify the current selection of an on-screen keyboard, just from looking at the pixels on the screen. In this article we will teach our Page Object how to navigate the keyboard — that is, how to move the selection from its current position to a target letter. In this tutorial we are using the keyboard from the YouTube app on Apple TV. Read more...
Stb-tester v31 added new APIs that make it much easier to navigate on-screen keyboards from your test scripts. In this series of tutorials we will create a Page Object that knows how to navigate YouTube’s search keyboard on the Apple TV. Read more...
I have written a Page Object for the “Search” page in the YouTube app on Apple TV. My page object has a property that reads the search term using OCR, but the OCR is mis-reading some words. Let’s investigate! Read more...
Stb-tester v31 adds support for test-scripts written in Python 3 (Python 2 is still supported, too). To migrate an existing test-pack to Python 3, we recommend the following steps. Read more...
Stb-tester v30 includes a new feature: Searching for a reference image that has some transparent pixels. This blog post describes three ways you can use this new feature that makes writing test-scripts much easier than before. Read more...
An end-to-end test for your Alexa integration is easy to automate with Stb-tester. In this short video we issue commands to Alexa by playing pre-recorded audio files (“Alexa, play Mr. Robot”). Then we validate that the command was successful by looking at the video output from the set-top box (in this video, a Fire TV Stick). Read more...
Stb-tester now provides PyCharm integration out of the box, allowing you to run tests against the real set-top-box, right from your IDE: Read more...
When you are developing new test scripts (or modifying existing ones) we recommend this workflow: Read more...
When you are capturing reference images for your test scripts, the Stb-tester Portal now allows you to crop the images directly in your browser. Read more...
We have just published three videos showcasing the stb-tester ONE, including a detailed guide for measuring channel change times on a set-top box: Read more...
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