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Agent support for automating UI Testing

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
desktop, testing

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points, so begin by clarifying whether separate-JVM agent support is in scope and reviewing the existing AssertJ Swing architecture. Define the agent boundary and communication approach before implementation. Done should mean application-level UI tests can run with assertions on the testing JVM and minimal assertion overhead in the application JVM.

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Description

The support assertJ-swing is great. When trying to use the library to automate some application level tests like running the application and run tests against it, I found the few problems.

  • When we run lot of tests, the objects that are created for assertions and component lookup adds an overhead into the Application Under Testing.
  • Running tests together with the application adds test framework overhead into the Application as well.

We could overcome these problems, if we keep test execution and assertions on the testing jvm and application on its own jvm. To do that we would need a small agent which could perform low level operations that are required by the assertion library and return the results to the testing jvm. This will make sure the testing and assertion has minimal impact on the application jvm.

Do you think this is a good idea to implement ? or the scope of this library is just to test components only ?

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Java
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Forks
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