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[joe maniaci <question667037@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New question #667037 on Sikuli:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/667037

So for the last year I have gone down the path of researching various automated GUI test tools. One of the more promising ones was Testplant's Eggplant Functional tool. However, the price is just way too much for my company at the moment. So I started going down the path of Sikuli and I have come up with a satisfactory workflow for myself, but I just don't think it will be satisfactory for those I'll have to school up. So I work with giant printers and we don't really have spare engineers to build up tests but we do have a lot of testers that could. I even created my own drastically simplified Sikuli API(in Java) and all a user has to do is collect images with the sikuli IDE and piece it all together within Eclipse using Java. However for someone without a programming background I fear this might not be enough. So here is what I am thinking...

An all in one custom Eclipse IDE utilizing a custom DSL with the ability to capture imagery as well as tweak the target and similarity. This and the ability to model the interface, that is, laying out that if I perform Action A on View V, I should now expect to see View V2, where I could perform Action A2, so on and so forth. So imagine dragging and dropping a couple Thumbnail/ImageButton/Icon-like controls that represent the views, the actions that can be performed and how they all link together in a drawing area. Kind of like UML Designer in Eclipse.

I'm trying to write out requirements for all this but I'd like to prototype some more first and that's where I'm running into issues of what to use. For creating a scripting language that builds out Java it appears that Xtext will be the way to go so that's that. I'm thinking to create an Eclipse plugin to capture and tweak imagery, that way other Eclipse users could use just that for their projects(would be nice to know how to easily hook into Sikuli for this). In regards to modeling/IDE development I have come across the Eclipse Modeling Framework and the Graphical Editing Framework but I'm not entirely certain how to get started.

If anything I'd be curious if people could point me in the right direction, let me know if something is possible or/not, what Eclipse tools might be more suitably, etc, etc.

Thank you very much for any useful info.

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