Test Program

The test program, compList, listed in Source Code shows the events peers pass along to the Java run-time system. You can then examine the output to see how the run-time system reacts to the different events. When you run compList, the screen looks something like the one in Figure C.1.

Figure C.1: Test program

[Graphic: Figure C-1]

How to Use the Program

Java does not have an automated record and playback feature, so the work is left for you to do. The program displays 10 components: Label, Button, Scrollbar, List, multiselection List, Choice, Checkbox, TextField, TextArea, and Canvas (the black box in Figure C.1). Basically, you must manually trigger every event for every component.

For every component on the screen (except Done), do the following:

With the mouse
Move the cursor over the object, press the mouse button and release, and drag the cursor over the object.
With the keyboard
Press and release an alphabetic key, press and release the Home and End keys, arrow keys, and function keys. Do this for every component, even for components like Button and Label that have no logical reason for using keyboard events.
For items with choices
Select and deselect a few choices; double-click and single-click selections.
For the scrollbar
Click on each arrow, drag the slider, and click in the paging area (the space between each arrow and the slider).
For the text field
Press Enter.
When finished
Press the Done button, and analyze the results. Run the program again (without exiting), and check the results again. Try to trigger any specific events that you expect but didn't appear in the output from the first pass. Generating some events requires a little work. For example, on a Macintosh, in order to get the MOUSE_UP and MOUSE_DRAG events, you must do a MOUSE_DOWN off the component; otherwise, the MOUSE_DOWN/MOUSE_UP combination turns into an ACTION_EVENT, if that component can generate it.

NOTE:

The SunTest business unit of Oracle has an early version of a record and playback Java GUI testing tool called JavaSTAR. Information about it is available at http://www.suntest.com/JavaSTAR/JavaSTAR.html. In the future, it may be possible to use JavaSTAR to help automate this process.

Source Code

The following is the source code for the test program:

import java.awt.*; import java.util.*; import java.applet.*;
public class compList extends Applet {
 Button done = new Button ("Done"); Hashtable values = new Hashtable();
public void init () {
 add (new Label ("Label")); add (new Button ("Button")); add (new Scrollbar (Scrollbar.HORIZONTAL, 50, 25, 0, 255)); List l1 = new List (3, false); l1.addItem ("List 1"); l1.addItem ("List 2"); l1.addItem ("List 3"); l1.addItem ("List 4"); l1.addItem ("List 5"); add (l1); List l2 = new List (3, true); l2.addItem ("Multi 1"); l2.addItem ("Multi 2"); l2.addItem ("Multi 3"); l2.addItem ("Multi 4"); l2.addItem ("Multi 5"); add (l2); Choice c = new Choice (); c.addItem ("Choice 1"); c.addItem ("Choice 2"); c.addItem ("Choice 3"); c.addItem ("Choice 4"); c.addItem ("Choice 5"); add (c); add (new Checkbox ("Checkbox")); add (new TextField ("TextField", 10)); add (new TextArea ("TextArea", 3, 20)); Canvas c1 = new Canvas (); c1.resize (50, 50); c1.setBackground (Color.blue); add (c1); add (done);
}
public boolean handleEvent (Event e) {
 if (e.target == done) {
 if (e.id == Event.ACTION_EVENT) {
 System.out.println (System.getProperty ("java.vendor")); System.out.println (System.getProperty ("java.version")); System.out.println (System.getProperty ("java.class.version")); System.out.println (System.getProperty ("os.name")); System.out.println (values);
}
}else {
 Vector v; Class c = e.target.getClass(); v = (Vector)values.get(c); if (v == null) v = new Vector(); Integer i = new Integer (e.id); if (!v.contains (i)) {
 v.addElement (i); values.put (c, v);
}
} return super.handleEvent (e);
}
}

An HTML document to display the applet in a browser should look something like the following:

<APPLET code="compList.class" height=300 width=300>
</APPLET>

Examining Results

The results of the program are sent to standard output when you click on the Done button. What happens to the output depends on the platform. It may be sent to a log file (Internet Explorer), the Java Console (Netscape Navigator), or the command line (appletviewer). The following is sample output from Internet Explorer 3.0 on a Windows platform.

Microsoft Corp. 1.0.2 45.3 Windows {class java.awt.Canvas=[504, 503, 1004, 501, 506, 502, 505, 1005, 401, 402, 403, 404], class java.awt.Choice=[1001, 401, 402, 403, 404], class java.awt.Checkbox=[1001, 402, 401, 403, 404], class compList=[504, 503, 501, 506, 502, 505, 1004, 1005], class java. awt.TextField=[401, 402, 403, 404], class java.awt.List=[701, 1001, 401, 402, 403, 404, 702], class java.awt.Scrollbar=[602, 605, 604, 603, 601], class java.awt.TextArea=[401, 402, 403, 404], class java.awt.Button=[1001, 401, 402, 403, 404]}

In addition to some identifying information about the run-time environment, the program displays a list of classes and the events they passed. The integers represent the event constants of the Event class; for example, Canvas received events with identifiers 504, 503, etc. The events are not sorted, so you can see the order in which they were sent. Unfortunately, you have to look up these constants in the source code yourself. The class listed as compList is the applet itself and shows you the events that the Applet class receives.