GUI output testing

Mark A. Schwenk mas at wellthot.com
Mon Aug 11 01:56:30 UTC 2003


Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

...

> 
> For what it's worth, I've recently learned about a promising method,
> which does sound like a fair bit of work, and that's the use of "Mock"
> objects.  I've read about it in the "Naked Objects" book, and I've read
> about it in an XP web site.  The idea is that each of the graphic classes
> you normally deal with is replaced by a "Mock" version which doesn't
> actually draw anything, and doesn't respond to real keystrokes or mouse
> clicks, but does hold the information you would want displayed, and can
> simulate (to some extent) user interface actions.	
> 
> It will be a long time before I feel confident enough to try that,
> especially as the Naked Objects book is in hot demand so I had to return
> it to the library before finishing it.
> 

It looks like the complete text of the Naked Objects book is online:

	http://www.nakedobjects.org/content.html

-Mark Schwenk
  WellThot Inc.



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