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

[Jeff M. <ku...@gm...>]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 01:10:03 +1100, Andrew Cowie
<an...@op...> wrote:
> 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 interested
> > 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.

Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote some code for the classpath project
that provides a wrapper around the XTest library.  I am sure this
code could be used for java-gnome.  I am also convinced that
much of the bindings can be tested without even displaying a
window.

> [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.

I just wrote a simple JUnit test for the ComboBox class.  My goal was to
see how easy it would be to write JUnit based tests for Java-GNOME.  
I have attached the source here.  Please take a look and let me know
what you think.

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