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Announcing 'Dear ImGui Test Engine' + 'Dear ImGui Test Suite', available now.
- automation/testing for Dear ImGui apps/tools;
- run in your live app or headless on CI;
- run at robot speed or simulated human speed;
- export screens/videos for e.g. generating docs;

github.com/ocornut/imgui_test_

Been working on this on the side since 2018, used it to test Dear ImGui itself & catch regressions. @rokups and I added many tests over time.

Opening it for people to add tests to their own app/tools. If you can control e.g. your game/engine via tools, you can now automate them.

Please note the Test Suite is MIT licensed but Test Engine Library is custom open-source license (TL;DR; free for individuals, open-source, education and small companies; paid for large companies).

Income aimed at sustaining main Dear ImGui work which stays and will stay MIT.

@ocornut Would love to hear how the licensing model works out for you. I’ve been considering doing something along those lines for my texture compression work. My worry is that the innovative ideas are fairly easy to copy and replicate without using my code, but at the same time I want to be as open as possible while also finding a sustainable business model.

Omar

@castano I’ll let you know but I suspect this specific project is going to take a while to take off (which is fine for me as it’ll help to get spread out feedback and taking the time to react).
Also In general I’d say the situation improved from our call 2 years ago.