Screenshot automation BoF

Possible attendees:

• AlexandreFranke

• AndreKlapper

• ShobhaTyagi

• DaikiUeno

• DavidKing

• PetrKovar

• VadimRutkovsky (preferably during the core days)

• Shivani Poddar

• PranavKant

Estimated duration: half a day

Topic

It's 2014 and translators and documentation writers still have to spend a lot of time to manually create screenshots. There must be a better way. Let's discuss this issue and find a solution.

Resources

• Current MediaWiki GSoC project

• Dogtail

• Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP)

• Robot Framework

• FOSDEM 2014 had a talk (refering to example code in dev docs though, not screenshots) of the Padrino project (written in Ruby). They used Cucumber and Selenium (automated interaction which could also be used to create visual documentation). -- andre

• build.gnome.org (via GNOME Continuous) takes screenshots of applications built from master

Notes we took are on an etherpad.