[TFUI] RE: [XP] How much manual testing do you do?

Ilja Preuss wrote:

> Phlip wrote:
> 
> > Informal manual testing means collecting tactile
> > feedback from the integrated application.
> 
> Nice sentence - may I use it in the presentation? :)

Ja. Don't you attribute it, either.

> > If a test case surpresses a window, one can
> > temporarily configure the case to display the
> > window
> > instead of test it. This provides an excellent
> > platform for authoring, because the window arrives
> > in
> > a fully populated state, and you don't need to
> > drive
> > the app just to see that window with data in it.
> 
> That's what we did, too. We found that preserving
> the test scenario and
> giving it a more explicite place had some benefits,
> though.

I have been wondering who besides me might do that.
But I don't mean write the test case that only
displays the populated window. I mean a test case that
Assembles, Activates, and Asserts a test, and then
optionally displays the window. The test case remains
online whether or not the window displays.

> > You can change esthetic details (without tests),
> > and
> > display the window for visual confirmation, in
> > rapid little cycles.
> 
> Yes, that's a very nice way of working. You can also
> get inspiration for
> missing functionality which then gets implemented
> test-first.

As you detect your own patterns of tweaking the window
and (occassionally) manually testing it, you invest
these discoveries into re-usable test functions. This
leads directly towards test-first for GUIs. You can
write entire tests blind, without displaying the
window, by pulling in whatever re-usable test
functions you have created for this intersection of
GUI Toolkit and application.

=====
Phlip
  http://industrialxp.org/community/bin/view/Main/TestFirstUserInterfaces


		
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