[Java-gnome-developer] Re: unit testing (was...)

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 08:50 -0500, Jeff Morgan wrote:
> And now on to the question.  During our next development cycle we hope to
> introduce a testing framework for the java-gnome bindings.  The question =
is
> "should this testing framework be based on JUnit or Mauve?".  I am intere=
sted
> in your experience with both of these tools.

[cut and paste from #java-gnome]

Unit testing GUI things is hard. How do you prove that a GUI element
actually popped up? You can fire events, but then it's not actually the
mouse click that causes the event, it's some manual trigger which
doesn't exercise the full code path.

That's probably better than nothing, but it's tricky.

[I've been grappling with this as I try to figure out how to test the
apps I'm writing. However we approach this, I'd like the solution to be
something VERY usable by people using the j-g bindings to write apps, as
opposed to just the people hacking on the bindings themselves]

FWIW, my vote would be JUnit since a) eclipse has extensive support for
it b) it's widely used in the Java community.

AfC
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