Re: [Fxruby-users] (unit) testing and FXRuby.

[Hugh S. S. E. E. <hg...@dm...>]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
>
> > success using it with Ruby.  In Tk you could send messages from one
        [...]
>
> GUI testing in general is a gray area, no question about it. At last

It is tricky but without the hooks it is even more so! :-)

> that he'd considered titling his presentation, "How to test GUIs",
> because he knew that if he did that he was guaranteed to have a large
> audience ;)

Yes, that would be true!
>
> > Also, are there ways to interrogate the application so I can assert
> > that "clicking ThatWidget means ThisWidget is now visible", etc?
> > I'm thinking my debugging process might go more smoothly if I can
> > drive the UI consistently.  Are there idioms for this yet?
>
> No, we don't have any kind of higher-level framework for that kind of
> thing, although it sounds like a good idea. I wonder if you might be
> able to leverage some of the work from Xnee:

I'll have to explore these. I have not heard of them before.
>
>      http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee
>
> or maybe this Perl module:
>
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/x11guitest
>
> Of course, those are both X-specific, but it's a start.

Thanks.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Lyle
>
        Hugh