[TFUI] Abbot and TDD, was: Is test driven UI development conceptually different?

George Dinwiddie Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:42:36 -0400
> Abbot is a record/playback GUI test framework.

Umm ... depending on your meaning, you're either wrong or unclear. 

The core of Abbot

http://sourceforge.net/projects/abbot

is just API for GUI automation and interrogation: it
allows you to (logically, unlike j.a.Robot) create native events "on"
UI widgets and to check their state. One can use that API "purely"
from JUnit or <your favorite Java test framework here>. (There is
already a Abbot plugin for Maven

http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/abbot/

) A measure of the cleanness of Abbot's API is that we found it
surprisingly easy to extend to support SWT.

Abbot has a script-oriented *extension*, Costello, that does
record/play/edit, but Ya Don't Hafta Use It. (E.g. I never have; my
group has costello.swt on our todo list, but we don't need it for our
testing.) 

In short, 

* s|Abbot is a record/playback GUI test framework|Abbot is a GUI
  automation framework, which can be driven in several ways.

* the implication that Abbot is unsuited for TDD is simply false: 
  it can be easily and cleanly driven by JUnit.


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