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LIFT: taking GUI unit testing to new heights

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Jason Snyder,

Stephen H. Edwards,

Manuel A. Pérez-QuiñonesAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '11: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 643 - 648

https://doi.org/10.1145/1953163.1953343

Published: 09 March 2011 Publication History

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The Library for Interface Testing (LIFT) supports writing unit tests for Java applications with graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Current frameworks for GUI testing provide the necessary tools, but are complicated and difficult to use for beginners, often requiring a significant amount of time to learn. LIFT takes the approach that unit testing GUIs should be no different than testing any other type of code. By providing a set of frequently used filters for identifying GUI components and a set of operations for acting on those components, LIFT lets programmers quickly and easily test their GUI applications.

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LIFT: taking GUI unit testing to new heights
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging

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DOI:10.1145/1953163

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Tateishi YInoue U(2019)GUI Static Testing for Object-Oriented Programming Exercises2019 20th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD)10.1109/SNPD.2019.8935800(280-285)Online publication date: Jul-2019
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96806-3_1
Scatalon LBarbosa EGarcia R(2017)Challenges to integrate software testing into introductory programming courses2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)10.1109/FIE.2017.8190557(1-9)Online publication date: Oct-2017
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