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- From: howard@netcom.com (Howard Berkey)
- Subject: Re: how do you do automated GUI testing?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.222955.22467@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <7750@dove.nist.gov> <1993Jan4.205127.25229@kth.se>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:29:55 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.205127.25229@kth.se> d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte) writes:
- >In <7750@dove.nist.gov> bagwill@swe.ncsl.nist.gov (Bob Bagwill) writes:
- >
- >>How does Apple (if they choose to respond) do automated testing
- >>of the GUI aspect of their product?
- >
- >>How do "professional" Mac developers do automated testing of
- >>their products?
- >
- >Apple has a very good product called Virtual User that lets
- >you create customized or random sessions and play them back
- >over a network to a lot of macs at the same time.
- >
- >It's good, and I haven't seen anything better on any other
- >platform. I seem to remember the arrangements about it being
- >very inexpensive too.
- >
-
- You can say that again. Similar tools for the PC are ~3-500 dollars,
- and x-based tools start around $3-15,000. (They do more though. Not an
- order of magnitude more, however.) VU is supposedly a good package.
-
- -Howard
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