The video store revisited yet again: Adventures in GUI acceptance testing

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3092, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-10

  Andersson, Johan ^a   Bache, Geoff ^a  

^a Jeppesen Systems AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; SOFTWARE TESTING;

ACCEPTANCE TESTING; BATCH PROGRAMS; GUI LIBRARY; HARD PROBLEMS; ON-SITE CUSTOMERS; TEXT-BASED APPROACH; USE CASE SCENARIO; USER ACTION;

ACCEPTANCE TESTS;

EID: 84944183631     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24853-8_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

1. Beck, K.: Extreme Programming Explained. Addison-Wesley, 1999.
2. Andersson, J., Bache, G. and Sutton, P.:”XP with Acceptance-Test Driven Development: A Rewrite Project for a Resource Optimization System” in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP2003). Italy, 2003.
3. TextTest is open source and can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/texttest
4. An entire chapter on writing a Video Store GUI with unit tests is present in Astels, D.:”Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide” Prentice Hall, 2003 A discussion of refactoring with the same problem can be found in van Deursen, A. and Moonen, L.:”The Video Store Revisited - Thoughts on Refactoring and Testing” in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Extreme Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering (XP2002). Italy, 2002.
5. PyGTK is available from http://www.daa.com.au/ james/pygtk/. It comes as standard with Red Hat Linux versions 8.0 and onwards.
6. http://www.centerline.com/productline/qcreplay/qcreplay.html
7. At least 6 record/replay tools for Java can be found at http://www.junit.org/news/extension/gui/index.htm
8. The tool’Android’ gives a beautiful example of the kind of low-level script you get from recording a test that does 1 + 2 = 3 in xcalc. http://www.wildopensource.com/larry-projects/article1.html
9. PyUseCase isn’t formally released at time of writing, though it hopefully will be by the time of XP 2004. It is in any case bundled with TextTest as TextTest itself uses it for its own testing.