Swinger video

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Hi guys,
I’ve just posted a small 30 sec video demoing Swinger, a JRuby-Cucumber
step
definition library for testing Java/Swing applications. Here’s the link:

Anyone has the same need for testing Swing apps?

Regards,
Demetrius

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On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Demetrius
Nunes[email protected] wrote:

Hi guys,
I’ve just posted a small 30 sec video demoing Swinger, a JRuby-Cucumber step
definition library for testing Java/Swing applications. Here’s the link:
demetriusnunes.com

That’s pretty cool :slight_smile: I’d say just about anyone who writes Swing apps
has this need.

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Thanks for the tweet and reply Charlie, I appreciate it. Let’s see if
other
people get excited about it.
Cheers.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Charles Oliver N.

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This is great. It’s nice to hear that there are others interested in
automated Swing testing.
At Atomic Object, we have been creating automated tests using a
combination of
FEST http://code.google.com/p/fest/ (Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.)
and
Ruby helper methods wrapping functions specific to our application. For
example, the Ruby ‘play’ method wraps the FEST operations needed to
start
our
simulatorhttp://spin.atomicobject.com/2009/01/30/ruby-for-desktop-applications-yes-we-can
(
Ruby for Desktop Applications? Yes we can.).
Likewise, ‘reset’ presses the appropriate buttons to reset the
simulator.

We haven’t published anything since our helpers are so tuned specific to
our
applications. Swinger looks like a great start to a highly reusable
Swing
testing harness.

Jemmy looks like an interesting library. Do you have any experience with
FEST? It looks like Jemmy tries to be just a robot, whereas FEST
provides
finders along with a robot. Does this sound about right?

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Demetrius Nunes

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That looks spiffy. I know Logan B. started in on Cucumber steps
for stuff we were doing with Monkeybars using just reflection to get
at the components but using Jemmy is probably a better way of doing
this.

David K.

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Demetrius Nunes wrote:

Hi guys,

I’ve just posted a small 30 sec video demoing Swinger, a JRuby-Cucumber
step definition library for testing Java/Swing applications. Here’s the
link:
demetriusnunes.com

Anyone has the same need for testing Swing apps?

I have to say that when I first saw this mail, I thought for sure it was
spam. =)

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LOL.

I often feel like I’m way out of touch…

Swinger, drools, jemmy, monkeybars, cucumber, webrat…

It seems like every day there are a ton of new gems… Which is
AWESOME…

Although it’s hard to keep up :stuck_out_tongue: (and fulfill the duties of my day
job, and family life :P)

Jay

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Michael
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Anyone has the same need for testing Swing apps?

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Michael C.-4 wrote:

I have to say that when I first saw this mail, I thought for sure it was
spam. =)

Oh good, I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought it was spam. :slight_smile:

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I’m definitely going to hook this into Monkeybars. Thanks!

Logan B.
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Matt Fletcher
[email protected]wrote:

Jemmy looks like an interesting library. Do you have any experience with
FEST? It looks like Jemmy tries to be just a robot, whereas FEST provides
finders along with a robot. Does this sound about right?

Never seen FEST before. Looks good as well. Don’t know how would it
compare
to Jemmy.

About Jemmy: it’s not only a robot. It implements several “finder”
strategies for locating each widget within the app and let’s you
implement
your own as well. For instance, in Swinger, I’ve implemented a
findByTooltip
strategy for buttons, using JRuby. Jemmy is used by the Netbeans team to
test Netbeans itself, so it’s pretty complete.

Cheers!
Demetrius

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David K. wrote:

That looks spiffy. I know Logan B. started in on Cucumber steps
for stuff we were doing with Monkeybars using just reflection to get at
the components but using Jemmy is probably a better way of doing this.

One big problem I ran into with cucumber + Monkeybars was exiting the
app.

If I had a spec that that clicked the Exit menu item, for example, the
entire JVM process was ended, including the spec run. As a result I
would not get any final report.

Some hackery got me around that, but a better solution would have the
app being tested isolated from the process doing the testing.

James

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Hehe, it was meant to be kinda of funny… Not sure if it was a good
idea
for search engines and spam filters though.

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I really like Monkeybars (although I prefer to use MVP instead of MVC).
Let
me know if you need any help!