Austin English wrote:
I was more interested in a quick proof of concept. The flexibility of autohotkey allows for lots of different methods for doing such things, and a method that involves the majority of code being run under AHK itself (and therefore on wine AND windows) is very possible with careful planning, which is part of what makes this proposal so interesting.
Hi Austin, IMO it would be nice to make clear line between *installation* testing and *functional* testing.
The first would answer the AppDB question if the program is installable (and uninstallable).
The second could try to cover some basic aspects of program functionality, say - Firefox is able to view http://winehq.org or so.
AutoHotkey even supports screenshots matching.
See *-repository/*/resources for some library of existing primitive AutoHotkey install/uninstall scripts. There are some game demos too.
http://winebot.sandbox.cz/tracker/browser/repositories
For example Wizardry 8 demo download is available here and should work: http://wood.sandbox.cz/wizardry8-demo/wizardry8demo.exe
Heroes of Might and Magic III demo installs and runs well, too (beware of troubles with PulseAudio).
From top of my head, Widelands and FreeCiv would be another nice candidates for free downloadable games with easy automation.
Hope it helps. Hark