GUI code testing for JDK 10/11 - Keys, Mouse, TestNG, Maven, etc.

[Miroslav Nachev]

Hi Mike,

Thank you very much for the reply. It will be my pleasure to develop TestFX
for TestNG.

Yesterday I noticed, that the Robot in JDK11 is not working properly. After
first use, it throws an exception.

Also for JDK 8 and 10, TestFX does not work correctly or I do not know how
to use it. The cursor is positioned in the wrong place, and so on. The
examples that are given do not work. Can the problem be that I run the
examples from NetBeans 9?


Regards,
Miro.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 1:49 AM Michael Ennen <mike.ennen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> *I am the current maintainer of TestFX and a (new) contributor to OpenJFX
> working*
> *on this exact area. TestFX does support Java 10. We are currently working
> on*
> *supporting Java 11, as can be seen here:
> https://github.com/TestFX/TestFX/pull/606
> <https://github.com/TestFX/TestFX/pull/606>.*
> *In JavaFX 11com.sun.glass.ui.Robot was moved to the public API as*
> *javafx.scene.robot.Robot so it is now easier to use the built-in Robot to
> test a*
> *JavaFX GUI application.*
>
> *TestFX offers some nice conveniences on top of the base Robot (namely,*
> *a nice way to target specific nodes in the scene graph and assert on
> their*
> *expected states).*
>
> *In summary, TestFX will soon support JavaFX 11. You can use the public
> API*
> *Robot if you do not wish to use TestFX. TestFX does not currently support*
> *TestNG - a contribution in that regard to TestFX would be great. You can
> see*
>
>
> *the sub-projects for Junit 4/5 are quite small:*
> *Although things are in a state of flux with regards to how the JUnit
> sub-projects*
> *work with respect to Jan Ortner's work in
> https://github.com/TestFX/TestFX/pull/615
> <https://github.com/TestFX/TestFX/pull/615>.*
> *Therefore if you were interested in contributing TestNG support to TestFX
> it would*
> *be advisable to base the work off of Jan Ortner's work in 615.*
>
> *Also, I should mention, that the basic robot functionality for Glass has
> been*
> *around since before Java 8 and could always be used, although it was a
> private*
> *API so any code written for it could break at any time. Now that it is
> part of the*
> *public API that is no longer a concern.*
>
> *I should also mention that it is possible to use the AWT Robot with
> JavaFX and*
> *bypass the JavaFX Robot entirely.*
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Ennen
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:42 PM Miroslav Nachev <
> mnachev.nscenter.eu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What are the possible options for GUI code testing for JDK 10/11?
>>
>> I tried TestFX <https://github.com/TestFX/TestFX>, but this project does
>> not support JDK 10/11. Additionally, it does not support TestNG. I do not
>> want to use JUnit, because it does not have the necessary functionality,
>> such as ordered/sorted execution of the methods in each class.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Miro.
>
>