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Tips: Test, Test, Testing SWT GUIs

By Dwight Deugo

April 25, 2007 — (Page 1 of 2)
No, it's not a stutter. But it is good advice. Test today, test tonight, test tomorrow—

If there's any secret to software development, it's that your applications, your packages and your classes need to be tested often. And not just by you, but by an automated process that can do the same testing a million times and never get tired.

Now it may be you who does or initiates the testing, or it may be a team dedicated to that purpose. In either case, automation is the key. As many know—although I continually find others who don't—JUnit, a regression-testing framework written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck, is the choice for Java testing. JUnit makes it easy to write tests as Java classes.

And Eclipse makes it even easier by including support of JUnit right in the SDK. For most, testing using JUnit involves creating tests for your classes, packages and applications, that exercise their public APIs. However, what happens when you have an SWT application or an Eclipse View that you want to test? Are you left to do this strictly using visual testing? The answer is no.

SWT GUI testing breaks down into three software groups: commercial, Eclipse and open source. Yes I know Eclipse is open source, but I'm trying to distinguish what already comes with Eclipse from what you can add yourself.

Instantiations has a commercial product called WindowTester that comes in three flavors: WindowTester SWT, WindowTester Swing and WindowTester Pro (combination of the previous two). Using their software, you record your interactions with a GUI and it automatically generates JUnit test cases that you can exercise in the future.

The benefits of using this product are that the test cases it creates are Java code. This makes it easy to read, refactor and customize them, as well as create new ones.

In addition, the tests fit into the JUnit framework most Java developers already know. Exercise the test case as you normally would with JUnit. Be happy in the knowledge that when your test cases pass in the future, your GUI worked the same way as it did when the tests were first created. The only downside? You'll have to pay for the product.

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