Re: [TFUI] Is test driven UI development conceptually different?

On Jul 27, 2004, at 3:50 PM, George Dinwiddie wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:15:35PM -0400, Timothy Wall wrote:
>  > >
>  > >  A bit more than a year ago, Jeff Waltzer and I experimented with 
> doing
>  > >  so.  We were using java/swing.  We started with rolling our own
>  > >  framework within jUnit, and found that we were basically
>  > > re-implementing
>  > >  jfcUnit, so we switched to that.
>  >
>  > Funny how everyone seems to do that.  google "java gui test".  But I
>  > admit, it's kinda fun at first.  "Look ma, no hands!"
>
>  Actually, it was intentional.  It *was* an experiment.  And we were
>  headed in the same direction as jfcUnit because we were doing
>  test-first. 
> There was no way to record actions before there was any GUI
>  to act against.  Record-and-playback gui testers are probably better 
> for
>  acceptance testing, but programmatic testers are probably better for
>  TDD, IMHO.

I must have missed a post about record/playback.  What did it say?  I 
can't see how it'd be relevant to TDD, though.

I agree, programmatically driving the UI is the logical way to do TDD.



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