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This blog post by David Herron details the issues with automating Java GUI testing. He mentioned numerous items you should consider when writing and testing your applications.
What problems are faced in Java GUI automation? To help the Java Quality team understand the hurdles faced in automating Java GUI tests, I wrote up a paper detailing the problems. This was a couple years ago, and I want to summarize it here. The purpose was to document the challenges we face in automating the Java GUI tests, and guide us in choosing the tools we now use in the automation work.
What I came up with was a list of attributes ... each attribute contributing its own automation challenge. I kept the attributes as orthogonal as possible, to let them be considered independantly where possible...
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