GUI testing is a hard and often neglected task. We take a look at two open source solutions for writing SWT and Swing tests, SWTBot and Marathon, and how they can be used from JRuby. We talked to ...

We've discussed here before the brewing battle between Swing and JavaFX for the hearts and minds of desktop Java GUI developers. Will the two technologies develop in parallel, each with their own ...

Swing (and AWT) pioneered the use of MVC in Java. Surprisingly Swing stays one of the most convoluted and counterintuitive MVC frameworks with very little guidance on how to do things right. This ...

As Java GUI developers advanced from AWT to Swing, one of the key things pushed by Sun was the Swing toolkit’s single-threaded programming model. Here’s the single-thread rule from an early ...

Ars Praefectus 23y 3,728 Nov 25, 2011 #1 So, I'm trying to make a Java/Swing GUI that looks like this: Code: ...

This tip explains a simple way of automating Java Swing application acceptance tests, starting from Swing components' unit tests and extending them to acceptance tests without human intervention.

JDebugTool is a standalone graphical Java debugger built on top of the standard JPDA (Java Platform Debugger Architecture). JDebugTool features a graphical and intuitive Java Swing GUI, and ...