Description Kevin T Dale 2003-06-04 16:24:49 EDT

We are currently working on integrating Abbot, a Java GUI testing framework 
originally intended for AWT, for use with SWT to allow for whitebox testing of 
SWT GUIs.  There currently exist a number of such tools for AWT, but SWT can 
claim none (as far as I know).  And although SWT is superior to AWT in many 
respects, it clearly falls short of its competitor in this arena.  To even the 
field and extend Abbot to SWT, we need the capability to programmatically 
manipulate SWT Widgets in a manner that mimics the user.      

Specifically, we would like to request a set of methods, that, when given an 
instance of an SWT Widget, can:  
	1) click on the Widget;
	2) type in the Widget;
	2) give focus to the Widget;
and, in general, generate any basic action to which a generic Widget can 
respond.  Then, complex test simulations can be created from combinations of 
these basic actions and those already provided by the SWT API, to allow for the 
sort of automated testing that we're looking for.