Developer Testing and /Glover09 Oct 2006 07:14 pm
Developer Testing of GUIs has always been a challenge and few open source tools have been available. On the Java side there is
and now there is another player: JUseCase. This tool is slightly different in that it’s not a testing framework, per say, but an automated driver for GUIs.
On the .NET side, check out NUnitForms, which is an extension to NUnit and facilitates automated testing of GUIs.
October 12th, 2006 at 3:15 am
What about the current offer for testing SWT applications (eclipse plugins) ? Are there any usefull open source tools ?
October 15th, 2006 at 10:18 am
It looks like Eclipse’s TPTP platform may be of help to you. Check it out: http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/home/downloads/quicktour/v42/quick_tour.html
October 24th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
TestNG and Abbot play togther– check it out: http://jroller.com/page/alexRuiz?entry=testng_abbot_supports_programmatic_tests
January 27th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
[…] Developer testing of GUIs, like those written in Swing for example, have always been a challenge. Regardless of how a particular GUI is coded, ascertaining testing plug-in points and determining how to structure a particular test case presents barriers that often force one to postpone testing until a more manual effort can be conducted. As I mentioned a few months ago, there are a number of frameworks available that facilitate testing various GUI frameworks; however, of late, I have found that one particular framework for testing Java GUIs stands out– testng-abbot. […]