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

Jeff Patton wrote:

> You're correct - but those functional requirements just "feel" less
> contraining to me.  They don't seem to tell me exactly what objects I
> need where they way visual requirements do.

It doesn't feel that way to me. The spec certainly tells me to put a
button somewhere, and a TextField somewhere near to it. But it doesn't
tell me *how* to put them in their place and how to wire them so that
they interact accordingly. I even often find that I will refactor the
GUI classes, so the next time the requirements seem to say "put a
TextField object near that Button object" I actually have to translate
it to "put the ActionTextField there"; or when the requirement says
"that TextField should only be enabled when the radio button is
selected" I have to translate it design-wise to "use our
JComponentEnabler to wire the textfield to the radio button".

I guess what I want to say is: once you have learned to spot duplication
in GUI code and to extract it to a common place, designing GUI code
isn't in any way more boring than designing any other code, in my
experience.

Cheers, Ilja



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