[abbot-users] Script upgrade from Abbot 1.0.0 RC 5 to Abbot 1.2.0

[James D. <jd...@is...>]

Hi,

Just wanted to post to the mailing list in case anyone is doing a 
similar Abbot script upgrade from 1.0.0 (RC 5) to 1.2.0.

We have 6000 lines of Swing GUI test scripts that were working with 
Abbot 1.0.0 RC 5 / JDK 1.6.0_29 that we updated to Abbot 1.2.0, and the 
process was pretty painless.  Here are the main changes we made, in case 
it's useful for anyone else as a tip:

    BeanShell to Groovy changes

        Remove setAccessibility(true) Expressions. No more BeanShell 
setAccessibility() function available, previously used to support 
JTableTester.valueToString(), though it's not clear whether as of 1.0.0 
RC 5 the setAccessibility() call was necessary anyway.

        Add package/class org.junit.Assert to assertEquals and 
assertTrue. No more BeanShell assertEquals() and assertTrue() functions 
available.

        Escape $ in String literals (or in the case of regexp String 
literals, use something else instead of regexps to avoid creating 
confusing regexps). $ is special in Groovy script.

    JTableTester changes

        Expect null rather than "null" or "" from valueToString() for 
null-valued cells.

        Call JTable.getValueAt() instead of valueToString() for cells 
without a text renderer (like a JCheckBox renderer). valueToString() 
returns null for cells like this instead of doing toString() on the value.

        Use [row,col] to locate null-valued cells rather than "null". 
"null" will no longer match null-valued cells for actionClick etc.

Thank you to Gerard and Tim and any other contributors for moving Abbot 
forward, it's enormously helpful.

Thanks,
Jim