Hi Sean,
This is very valuable. Currently it is really hard to test GUI in Pharo.
One problem I faced several times is that GUI are not uniformly managed: some
GUI widgets use of exceptions (which is cool), some other are blocking the
currently thread (which is not cool). For example, I can write:
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| t |
[self inform: 'blah'] on: Exception do: [:ex | t := ex ].
self assert: t messageText = 'blah'
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Other cool tests:
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testSupplyAnswerOfFillInTheBlank
self should: ['blue' = ([UIManager default request: 'Your favorite
color?']
valueSupplyingAnswer: #('Your favorite color?' 'blue'))]
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However, not all widgets can be tested that way, which is quite problematic.
For example, the following code opens a window, which is not one would expect:
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self should: ['/tmp' = ([UIManager default chooseDirectory]
valueSupplyingAnswer: #('/tmp'))]
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I am not sure how easy is to solve this problem, but this is something we need
to work on. This is important.
I opened an issue: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5010
Cheers,
Alexandre
On 22 Nov 2011, at 20:27, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
> I'm starting to put together some helpers for UI testing. What's out there
> already?
>
> I started simulating keyboard events. It seems like the place to hook is
> ActiveHand>>handleEvent:. This way, it will take into account the keyboard
> focus and route the event the way it would for a real event. Does that sound
> right?
>
> So far the API adds TestCase>>simulateKeyStrokes: which forwards to
> ActiveHand>>handleEvent:, so you can put in a test:
> testMyMorph
> MyMorph new openInWorld. "MyMorph takes the keyboard focus in
> #initialize"
> self simulateKeyStrokes: 'abcd'. "keystrokes go to MyMorph instance"
>
> Obviously, there are things missing (like modifier keys), but what are your
> thoughts on the general approach?
>
> Sean
>
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