Re: [TFUI] Re: UI Guidelines and Acceptance Testing

On Jul 21, 2004, at 7:33 AM, Phlip wrote:
> Then you hit a little problem. Wizards and form
> painters often constrain programmers' understanding of
> GUI development. (Wizards and form painters are not
> evil, but I often set them up as the Big Bad Wolf of
> my stories.)

That depends on your framework and interface design tools.

For example, the Cocoa framework and Interface Builder don't constrain 
developers' understanding of desktop application development in any 
significant way.

> Asserting that controls flow from upper left to lower
> right is easy. Putting tests within reach of a window,
> or its resource script, to then write that assertion
> is hard.

That quite depends on your framework and interface design tools.

For example, the Cocoa framework and Interface Builder don't make it 
particularly difficult to write tests for an application's human 
interface.

   -- Chris

-- 
Chris Hanson <[email protected]>
http://www.livejournal.com/users/chanson/



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