Swing Extreme Testing

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: What Needs Testing?
  • An Example
  • What Classes Do We Test?
  • Test First—Always!
  • What Classes Don't We Test?
  • What Methods Need Testing?
  • What Methods Don't We Test?
  • Invoking Hidden Methods and Constructors
  • Unit Test Coverage
  • Who Should Implement the Unit Tests?
  • What About Legacy Code?
  • Where Does Integration Testing Fit In?
  • Documentation of Unit Tests
  • Testing at the Application Level
  • Who Should Implement the Function Tests?
  • Automated Test Execution
  • A Hierarchy of Tests
  • What Language Should Our Tests Be In?
  • Is it Really Possible?
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Basics of Unit Testing
  • A Simple Example
  • The Default Implementation
  • Test Cases
  • Design by Contract and Non-Defensive Programming
  • Test Code Example
  • Bootstrapping Our Implementation
  • Load Testing
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Infrastructure for Testing
  • Where Should the Unit Tests Go?
  • Where Should the Function and Load Tests Go?
  • Management of Test Data
    • What Do We Require of a Test Data Management System?
  • Temporary Files
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Cyborg—a Better Robot
  • The Design of Cyborg
  • Using the Keyboard
  • Mousing Around
  • Checking the Screen
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Managing and Testing User Messages
  • Some Problems with Resource Bundles
  • A Solution
  • The UserStrings Class
  • ResourcesTester
    • How ResourcesTester Works
  • Getting More from UserStrings
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Making Classes Testable with Interfaces
  • The LabWizard Comment Editor
  • The Wizard
  • A Test for Wizard
  • A Test for Step
  • Handlers in LabWizard
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Exercising UI Components in Tests
  • The LabWizard Login Screen
  • The Design of LoginScreen
  • UI Wrappers
    • The Correct Implementation of UILoginScreen
  • A Handler Implementation for Unit Testing
  • Setting Up our Tests
  • Our First Test
  • Further Tests
  • Some Implicit Tests
  • Other User Interfaces
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Showing, Finding, and Reading Swing Components
  • Setting Up User Interface Components in a Thread-Safe Manner
  • Finding a Component
  • Testing Whether a Message is Showing
  • Searching for Components by Name
  • Reading the State of a Component
  • Case Study: Testing Whether an Action Can Be Cancelled
  • The Official Word on Swing Threading
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Case Study: Testing a 'Save as' Dialog
  • The Ikon Do It 'Save as' Dialog
  • Outline of the Unit Test
  • UI Helper Methods
    • Dialogs
    • Getting the Text of a Text Field
    • Frame Disposal
  • Unit Test Infrastructure
    • The UISaveAsDialog Class
    • The ShowerThread Class
    • The init() Method
    • The cleanup() Method
  • The Unit Tests
    • The Constructor Test
    • The wasCancelled() Test
    • The name() Test
    • The show() Test
    • The Data Validation Test
    • The Usability Test
    • Summary

• Chapter 10: More Techniques for Testing Swing Components
  • Testing with JColorChooser
  • Using JFileChooser
  • Checking that a JFileChooser has been Set Up Correctly
  • Testing the Appearance of a JComponent
  • Testing with Frames
    • Frame Location
    • Frame Size
  • Testing with Lists
    • List Selection Methods
    • List Rendering
    • List Properties
  • Testing a JTable
  • Testing with JMenus
    • Checking the Items
    • Using Menus with Cyborg
  • Testing JPopupMenus
  • Combo Boxes
  • Progress Bars
  • JSlider and JSpinner
  • JTree
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Help!
  • Overview
  • What Tests Do We Need?
    • An HTML File That is Not Indexed
    • An index item for which there is no HTML file
    • Broken links
    • Incorrectly titled help pages
  • Creating and Testing Context-Sensitive Help
  • Executing HelpGenerator
  • Summary

• Chapter 12: Threads
  • The Waiting Class
  • Concurrent Modifiers
  • Concurrent Readers and Writers
  • Proof of Thread Completion
  • The Unit Test for waitForNamedThreadToFinish()
  • Counting Threads
  • Summary
  • Further Reading

• Chapter 13: Logging
  • Logging to a File
  • Remember to Roll!
  • Testing What is Printed to the Console
    • Switching Streams
    • Reading the Output From a Second JVM
  • Summary

• Chapter 14: Communication with External Systems
  • Email
    • Using an External Email Account
    • Using a Local Email Server
    • Which Method is Best?
  • Testing Spreadsheets
  • PDF
  • Serialization
  • Files
  • Summary

• Chapter 15: Embedding User Interface Components in Server-side Classes
  • A Typical MVC System
  • The Problem
  • The Solution
  • Which Approach Should We Use?
  • Summary

• Chapter 16: Tests Involving Databases
  • A Uniform Approach to Accessing the Database
  • Persistence Testing
  • Database Management
  • Summary

• Chapter 17: Function Tests
  • Specification of the Tests
  • Implementation of the 'DeleteCase' Test
  • Tests Involving Multiple JVMs
  • Multiple JVMs with GUI Components
  • Use of a Function Test as a Tutorial
  • Testing a Web Service
  • Summary

• Chapter 18: Load Testing
  • What to Test
    • Overnight 'Housekeeping' Takes Too Long
    • Deleting Cases Takes Too Long
    • The BMD Server is Too Slow to Start
  • Measuring Time
  • Measuring RAM Usage
  • The Load Tests for LabWizard
  • Profilers and Other Tools
  • Summary

• Chapter 19: GrandTestAuto
  • What is GrandTestAuto?
  • Unit Test Coverage
  • Advantages of Using GTA
  • Getting Started
  • Testing Overloaded Methods
  • Testing Protected Methods
  • Extra Tests
  • Classes That Do Not Need Tests
  • Day-To-Day Use of GrandTestAuto
    • Running Just One Level of Test
    • Running the Unit Tests for a Single Package
    • Running the Unit Tests for a Single Class
    • Running the Tests for a Selection of Packages
    • Package Name Abbreviation
    • Running Tests for a Selection of Classes Within a Single Package
    • Running Individual Test Methods
    • Running GTA From Ant or CruiseControl
    • GTA Parameters
  • Distributed Testing Using GTA
    • How it Works—In Brief
    • A Distributed Testing Example
  • Summary

• Chapter 20: Flaky Tests
  • A Flaky 'Ikon Do It' Unit Test
  • Writing Reliable Tests
  • Dealing with Flaky Tests
  • Diagnostic Tools
  • Tests That Do Not Terminate
    • Non-Daemon Threads
    • Remote Objects
    • Server Socket Still Waiting
    • Frame Not Properly Disposed
  • Summary

• Index

Lindsay Peters

Tim Lavers

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