Re: [TFUI] Digest Number 225

Paul Hamill wrote:

> What is the purpose of capturing the window as a
> bitmap? I would comment that trying to unit test the
> exact pixel output of a GUI is very expensive, and
> usually unnecessary.

To push the bitmap to a web site. Imagine http://fitnesse.org , where
some of the questions came with both answers and a picture of the
answer. This technique escalates the review of appearances. Imagine
supporting >8 locales, including right-to-left ones. You can reuse the
acceptance tests, once per locale, and generate a complete site of all
of them.

See the end of this paper:

http://flea.sourceforge.net/gameTestServer.pdf

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