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Tim Lavers, Lindsay Peters

The Extreme approach to complete Java application testing

Learn Swing user interface testing strategy
Automate testing of components usually thought too hard to test automatically
Practical guide with ready-to-use examples and source code
Based on the authors’ experience developing and testing commercial software

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Table of Contents Book Details

Language English
Paperback 328 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date June 2008
ISBN 1847194826
ISBN 13 978-1-847194-82-4
Author(s) Tim Lavers, Lindsay Peters
Topics and Technologies Open Source, Java

This book is a practical guide to automated software testing for extreme Java programming using Swing GUIs, with lots of ready-to-use real-life examples and source code for automated testing of the software components usually regarded as too hard to test automatically.

In Detail

Thorough testing is the basis of good software. Whether we use an agile development methodology such as Extreme Programming, or a more traditional approach, we must test our software at the unit level and application level. The tests must run automatically and cover all aspects of the software.

In this book, the authors draw on more than 20 years of experience to show how automated testing can be applied to a real commercial product.

This book will teach you how to automatically test user interfaces (Swing GUIs), the help system, internationalization, log files, spreadsheets, email, and web services, how to perform tests involving multiple JVMs, and a host of other things. These tests are applied at the module level (unit tests) and at the application level (function tests).

The authors have developed the test processes in the broader context of an Extreme Programming (XP) methodology. However, the testing techniques are certainly not specific to XP, and may be applied within any given development methodology.
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What you will learn from this book

What needs testing in a Java software project—the extreme testing approach
Managing test classes and test data
Useful tools for robotically testing Java applications
Managing and testing user interface components, and using UI wrappers in function testing
Setting up Swing GUI components in a thread-safe manner
Creating and testing a JavaHelp system for an application
Testing highly multi-threaded system and communication with external systems
Testing the logs produced by a software application
Embedding GUI components in server-side classes
Managing databases in a way that facilitates testing
Specifying and writing tests at the system level, tests using multiple JVMs
Basics of load testing
Exploring GrandTestAuto, a tool for test automation, coverage checking, and distributed testing
Dealing with intermittent test failures

Approach

This book is a practical guide based on the authors’ daily experience developing and maintaining a cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence system. Every chapter comes up with real-life examples and the source code that comes with the book is full of useful (and well-tested) tools. The practical examples make this book suitable learning material for Swing developers.

Who this book is written for

This book is for Swing developers who design and develop complex software for user interfaces that requires extensive testing. If you want to learn to test your Swing GUI components, this book is for you.

Author(s)

Tim Lavers
Lindsay Peters