Re: How to test a method which has void return type and no argument?

From:
Daniel Pitts <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
19 Apr 2007 09:04:29 -0700
Message-ID:
<1176998669.525318.190030@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 19, 4:37 am, "Ingo R. Homann" <ihomann_s...@web.de> wrote:

Hi,

mohit.khatr...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

   Thanks for your reply. I am facing still a problem. Suppose if i
have a method i.e.

class Menu_Bar
{

JMenuBar menubar = new JMenuBar();
JMenuItem File;
JFrame frame = new JFrame();

public Menu_Bar()
{
    this.CreateMenu();
    ...
    frame.setJMenuBar(menubar);
}

void CreateMenu()
{
     JMenu menuFile = new JMenu("File");
     ......

}
}

Now could you suggest me how do i test this method i.e. CreateMenu()
which has some local components.


Sorry, but I think it is nearly impossible to write unit tests that
tests a GUI! (Well, indeed it is possible, but it is quite difficult and
never covers what a manual test covers.)

Ciao,
Ingo- Hide quoted text -

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Like Patricia has stated, JUnit tests don't work well for GUI's.

JUnit is best for testing functionality use cases, rather than
usability.

Write tests for each of the user actions, not for the gui :-)

Hope this helps,
Daniel.

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