RFC: Mauve and java.awt.Robot?

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 10:19 +0200, Norman Hendrich wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> a simple and a not so simple RFC-type question about java.awt.Robot:
> 
> 
> Mark> One of the reasons some of the non-gui stuff is in a much better shape
> Mark> is because we have lots of small easy tests that we can run in Mauve.
> Mark> For GNU Classpath releases we make sure that a new release doesn't fail
> Mark> any of the tests that passed in the previous release. We don't have much
> Mark> gui tests in mauve.
> 
> Mark>                           Thomas made java.awt.Robot working and there
> Mark> are some examples on how to use this for automatic testing of the gui
> Mark> components in Mauve.
> 
> (1) I just downloaded mauve-nightly.zip, but I cannot find any use of Robot
>     in there... neither can grep. Where shall I look?

Check out mauve CVS HEAD from sources.redhat.com:/cvs/mauve.  See
gnu/testlet/java/awt/Robot/* and gnu/testlet/java/awt/Frame/*.

>  Also, is there a
>     snapshot of the Wonka tests, or do I have to do a full CVS checkout?
> 
> 
> (2) Is there some kind of 'GNU policy' regarding the use of java.awt.Robot
>     for automated GUI tests?  
> 
>     java.awt.Robot turns out a pretty dangerous animal, and I am not sure 
>     that we would want to unleash Robot on unsuspecting users that simply
>     type 'make check'.
> 

The mauve harness (in mauve CVS HEAD) can be made to run these tests on
an Xvfb server which prevents the Robot from being unleashed on the
developer's desktop.

Tom