Re: TDD'ing UI layout.

Tim Haughton wrote:

> Straw poll.

Nope. Miniature manifesto.

> Do you Test Drive the layout of your GUI? Why? If not, why not?

Test not structure but behavior. For internal code, don't test little
support things like [] and {}. Test 'if', or '.methodCall()'.

A GUI's appearance is typically a static declaration. That's why many
GUIs specify their layout using a static definition language, RC or
HTML, for example, that support layout editors.

If your GUI then changes its appearance based on internal data, and if
a bug in that appearance could cause the user to enter a bug, then you
must pin that down.

This page links to excerpts that cover these topics in great detail:

http://www.zeroplayer.com/cgi-bin/wiki?TestFirstUserInterfaces

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