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Sample application

The sample application WebTTY was written to illustrate the usage of the TestApe unit test framework when testing native Linux applications.

The WebTTY package allows any Linux terminal processes to be controlled in a text area HTML element on a webpage. The output from the server process is collected on server side, and is send to a text area element. Keypresses in textarea are collected on client side and send to the server process. WebTTY uses AJAX/DHTML patterns to achieve in-page updates without refreshing the entire page.

The package was developed to illustrate unit testing with the TestApe framework. It turned out to be a very useful demo application.

See a live demonstration of webtty running a virtual machine on this server.
or
Check out the administration page, where you can follow the activity of all active virtual machines.

Download

The latest source tar ball can be downloaded here (webtty.tar.bz)
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Previous versions here

Improvements

WebTTY is licensed under the GNU GPL license and any improvements to the package will be greatly appreciated.

Some much needed improvements just of the top of my head are given below:

- Better cross browser support. No reason this should not work in Opera, Konqueror etc. On this site only 23% of the visitors use IE so this issue is very important.

Patches can be submitted by email here (webtty@testape.com)

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