GUIdancer
Encyclopedia
GUIdancer is an Eclipse
-based automated GUI
test-tool from Bredex GmbH which runs as a standalone application or as an Eclipse Plugin.
GUIdancer is different from other GUI test-tools because automated tests can be written before the application under test (AUT) is ready. This means that GUIdancer is not a tool which tests an application by recording user actions and replaying them (capture-replay). Tests can be created from the requirements without access to the AUT, and involve no programming, script or code. GUIdancer tests can be created, run and maintained without support from automation experts.
Each Test Step (the smallest unit in GUIdancer) consists of three pieces of information chosen from interactive dialogs: the GUI-component to be tested, the action to execute on this component, and the parameters (or data) the action requires. A Test Step to enter “hello” into a text field would look like this:
At the time of Test Step creation, only the action to be executed has to be a fixed value. The GUI-component and the data for the Test Step can be added or changed later. In this way, tests are created as generically as possible so that they can easily be reused.
Test Steps are joined together to make modular Test Cases. Test Cases can be combined and reused to create running tests or more complex Test Cases.
The connection between the test specification and the AUT doesn’t have to be made until quite late in the test process. Because of this, GUIdancer is well suited to modern, agile software development
processes and Test-driven development
.
Version 2.2 of GUIdancer supports the testing of Java
(Swing
, SWT
/RCP
) and Web (HTML
) applications.
Eclipse (software)
Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment and an extensible plug-in system...
-based automated GUI
Gui
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test-tool from Bredex GmbH which runs as a standalone application or as an Eclipse Plugin.
GUIdancer is different from other GUI test-tools because automated tests can be written before the application under test (AUT) is ready. This means that GUIdancer is not a tool which tests an application by recording user actions and replaying them (capture-replay). Tests can be created from the requirements without access to the AUT, and involve no programming, script or code. GUIdancer tests can be created, run and maintained without support from automation experts.
Each Test Step (the smallest unit in GUIdancer) consists of three pieces of information chosen from interactive dialogs: the GUI-component to be tested, the action to execute on this component, and the parameters (or data) the action requires. A Test Step to enter “hello” into a text field would look like this:
- GUI-component: Text field
- Action: Enter Text
- Parameter: Hello
At the time of Test Step creation, only the action to be executed has to be a fixed value. The GUI-component and the data for the Test Step can be added or changed later. In this way, tests are created as generically as possible so that they can easily be reused.
Test Steps are joined together to make modular Test Cases. Test Cases can be combined and reused to create running tests or more complex Test Cases.
The connection between the test specification and the AUT doesn’t have to be made until quite late in the test process. Because of this, GUIdancer is well suited to modern, agile software development
Agile software development
Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams...
processes and Test-driven development
Test-driven development
Test-driven development is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes a failing automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces code to pass that test and finally refactors the new...
.
Version 2.2 of GUIdancer supports the testing of Java
Java (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
(Swing
Swing (Java)
Swing is the primary Java GUI widget toolkit. It is part of Oracle's Java Foundation Classes — an API for providing a graphical user interface for Java programs....
, SWT
Standard Widget Toolkit
The Standard Widget Toolkit is a graphical widget toolkit for use with the Java platform. It was originally developed by IBM and is now maintained by the Eclipse Foundation in tandem with the Eclipse IDE...
/RCP
Rich Client Platform
A rich client platform is software consisting of the following components:* A core , lifecycle manager* A standard bundling framework* A portable widget toolkit* File buffers, text handling, text editors...
) and Web (HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
) applications.