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by James Robertson.
Original Post: StS 2007 Daily Update: Extreme UI Testing
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Standard eXtreme programming emphasises the great importance of test-driven development - of the model layer of an application. Testing the UI layer, whether while developing it or afterwards, is treated much more lightly: prominent advocates of XP have suggested it can be largely and safely ignored. Experience taught the author that ignoring UI testing has costs. He therefore developed patterns that, with little extra coding, extend XP tests to the UI layer. He uses these in his projects, including in his open-source project, where portability of the tests across dialects is also of value. The talk will briefly overview UI testing approaches in Smalltalk and then present the patterns in detail. It will end with a discussion to share experiences and approaches.
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