SQUISH Mac OS
Squish Coco can target applications running on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and other platforms. Squish Coco is available for the following programming languages: C; C; C#; Tcl; Squish Coco can be used at every stage of testing and with every testing method (unit tests, automated tests, manual tests, etc.). Automated GUI Testing with Squish Functional GUI testing is an essential part of the devel- opment and QA processes used to create sophisticated modern GUI applications. And unlike the unreliable, unpredictable, and slow manual testing approach, au- tomated GUI tests quickly produce reliable and repro- ducible results.
Sorenson Media on Wednesday announced the release of Squish and the launch of its companion Web site, SquishNet. The new software is designed to help organizations integrate user-created video. It’s priced at $1 per user, 5,000 users minimum.
Squish is a Java-based application that runs within a Web page. It’s compatible with Mac OS X, and works with leading Web browsers including Safari and Firefox. It supports GIF, JPEG and PNG image formats, ASF, DV, Flash, MOV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and WMV video formats.
Features include automatic installation and frame-by-frame video preview, and can work by capturing a stream from a webcam or through a digital video camcorder. Once the input video is compressed, it’s published to the Web site hosting server. Encoding happens using the local CPU, and only the compressed file is uploaded, noted Sorenson.
SquishNet is a companion Web 2.0 application used as the server-side back-end to help companies that license the technology to host, organize, view and share that video content. It uses an embedded Adobe Flash-based video player and can be customized using Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) templates.
macOS has become much stricter from version 10.14 on about privacy-related APIs. Those include accessibility features and access to the microphone, camera or recording the screen itself.
Apart from the AUT itself Squish also needs some permissions during testing:
- Accessibility API for certain script functions, for example
nativeType() - “Screen Recording” for screenshots
Due to the way Squish launches the AUT process, all permissions that the AUT requires also need to be granted to Squish IDE. It may be sensible to have one test case that triggers all permission dialogs subsequently in the AUT. This test case can be executed manually on new build machines to grant permissions as needed.
Permissions given to the AUT outside of test runs do not apply during testing. Squish launches the AUT like a command-line application by directly running the executable inside the app bundle. Therefore all permissions required by the AUT need to be granted to Squish IDE, too, since it is the GUI process that launched the AUT.
Granting Permissions to an Application¶
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The process to grant permissions isdocumented in Apple’s macOS user guide. This article talks about Camera access. Accessibility and Screen Recording can be granted the same way.
When a permission is requested for the first time by an application you will also see a dialog that explains what to do.
Resetting Permissions Given to an Application¶
Permissions given to a specific application can in some cases be revoked via the Privacy pane in macOS System Settings. Some permissions can only be revoked via the command line using tccutil:
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Use the following commands to reset all permissions given to Squish IDE:
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Note: The second command revokes permissions given to Squish IDE’s launcher bundle. This is not strictly necessary since in normal operation, only squish.ide.product will receive permissions after asking for it. If you granted permissions by manually adding an IDE app bundle to the Accessibility list for example, it may accidentally have been the IDE launcher though.