Automated tests for Java Swing GUIs

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pauldoo picture pauldoo · Sep 18, 2008 · Viewed 48.4k times · Source

What options are there for building automated tests for GUIs written in Java Swing?

I'd like to test some GUIs which have been written using the NetBeans Swing GUI Builder, so something that works without requiring special tampering of the code under test would be ideal.

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Jwest08 picture Jwest08 · Sep 24, 2015

Recently I came across FEST which seemed promising, except that the developer announced in 2012 that development would not continue.

AssertJ is a fork of FEST that is working very well for me. It is actively maintained (at time of writing), supports Java 8, has assertions for a few popular libraries such as Guava and Joda Time, and is very well documented. It is also free and open.

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