The cast : * Adrian Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Alain Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Joshua Juran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Ian Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The messages : Adrian : Here's a problem I'm facing : How do you test a button? There are certainly some aspects that are simple to test ... but how do you test it's reaction to all the different properties that can be set ... Alain : I don't know. I do know that the GUI is not something that can be tested as readily as GUI-less code. I will ask the developers of the Montreal XP group about it, tonight, which is where I'm headed now. Stay tuned. :) Ian : maybe writing a script that sets all the available properties of the btn, in various combinations, and then gets the property values and writes then to a log file or at least checks them for the expected result could be a start. Ian : Also, the test script could even take snapshots of the btn after different visual properties have been set and save them for a quick visual review ... Josh : No, I agree that Optical Style Recognition is not called for here. :-) Josh : Anyway, maybe someone out there has more experience with unit testing than I do and can help me out. I don't have any actual experience with unit testing, but I have thought about it a great deal as I consider how to implement it for myself. Josh : In the case of GUI elements, I suggest the 'mock object' approach: If you were testing a MacOS button, you might redirect Mac Toolbox calls (via macros, perhaps) to test code, for ex SizeControl() would call a test function instead of the real thing. Then you'd know what size the button would be. Or, you could verify that the button calls TextFace() (to set the font) before calling DrawControl(). You could then call through to the actual OS routine if desired. Josh : I don't know how you'd map that to Java, but that's my suggestion. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freecard-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freecard-general
