GUI output testing

David Farber dfarber at numenor.com
Tue Aug 5 18:28:14 UTC 2003


Ron Jeffries tackles this issue in his Programming in C# series of articles where he develops an XML editor test first.

http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/acsIndex.htm

david

At 05:41 PM 8/5/2003 +1200, you wrote:
>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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David Farber
dfarber at numenor.com



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