Test Driven Swing

TestFirstUserInterfaces fields frequent JavaSwing questions, so here's a list of citations to some answers...

• UnitTestingInJava - How Tests Drive the Code

  • http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558608680
  • "The book teaches how to use JUnit to develop applications in a TestDrivenDevelopment style and covers advanced topics, eg. Web applications, GraphicalUserInterfaces, databases and threaded apps.
  • "Search within http://www.mkp.com to download forewords, table of contents and sample chapter which is about test-first development of Java Swing GUIs." --JohannesLink

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TestFirstUserInterfaces/message/63

  • a beautiful post by AndrewForward, including a code sample and lists of very specific useful concepts
  • "My current project is Java using AWT / Swing with testing help from JUnit... In essence, before I write any production code (even for the GUI) - I really try and consider what I want a certain component (button, menu, panel, etc) to do and I figure out how I can assert it has just done what I expected (right, TDD). Perhaps because GUI libraries are already so huge that we might think TDD won't work - but it does.

• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TestFirstUserInterfaces/message/193

  • my search cited Swing in-passim there, but the post also contains a very nice sumary of general TestFirstUserInterfaces issues ;-)

• GuiTesting

  • "Here is an example test, which adds a subtree of business nodes to a structure represented by a JTree, saves it, deletes the top of the subtree, and finally confirms that all of the subnodes below are removed as well."

• http://www.superlinksoftware.com/cgi-bin/jugwiki.pl?TestingGUIs

  • mentions Abbot, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/abbot
  • and JfcUnit, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfcunit/