Re: [DrJava] User-Level Testing

[Peter C. <pe...@ce...>]

I think Abbot <http://abbot.sourceforge.net/> has potential.  It is 
designed for excellent JUnit integration and provides a high-level 
toolkit for manipulating Swing components.  It also has record/playback 
functionality and an XML scripting language.

jfcUnit is another similar option <http://jfcunit.sourceforge.net/>, 
and appears to be the "official" tool for Swing testing with JUnit.  I 
think we'll have to examine the functional differences between it and 
Abbot to decide between them.

The one aspect of Eggplant that isn't provided by these tools is the 
ability to drive multiple test machines over VNC.  At best, a single 
run of Abbot tests could only verify correctness on a single host 
platform.  To test multiple platforms, we would have to run the test 
suite once for each platform.  We'll have to think about how we want to 
implement this in our current build system.

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Peter