Multithreading and web applications: Further adventures in acceptance testing

Abstract

At XP2004, two of the authors presented an "agile record/ replay" approach[1] to GUI Acceptance Testing based on recording high level use-cases. In the past year we have run a project to attempt to write tests using this approach for three different Carmen Systems products. [2] During this project we have met new challenges presented by multithreaded GUIs and web GUIs, and in the process we have produced JUseCase[5] - a Java Swing equivalent of PyUseCase[5], presented last year, and for web application testing we produced WebUseCase[6] - a browser-like use-case recorder based on JUseCase. Via these use-case recorders, we have found that we can fit both these challenges comfortably into our existing approach. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.