GUI output testing

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Tue Aug 5 05:41:36 UTC 2003


I've just been asked this question by a student,
and I didn't really know the answer.

"How do you test the (visual) output of a GUI program?"

I suggested all sorts of things, from grabbing a Form and comparing it
with a stored Form to saving the Morph to a file and comparing the files,
but it all seems a bit vulnerable (user changes round/square corners
preference => all comparisons fail).

Is there a way of testing the visual output of a GUI program
that doesn't involve handcuffing a user to the desk to look?



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