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 ...

Java GUI Development: Reintroducing MVC Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm is an intuitive and widely accepted strategy in UI design, be it web or rich client. In fact it is so well established as a ...

Even a developer testing enthusiast like Alex Ruiz had to admit GUI testing was hard, so he created FEST, the functional library for test-driven GUI development. This follow-up to Alex's JavaOne ...

Why is it hard for the developers of the Java language to design a GUI system that copies exactly the look of native GUIs? What's different in native GUIs?

The Java 1.0 event model GUI programming for what was then known simply as Java (rather than the Java platform) started life with a wacky containment model for event handling. Instead of simply ...

Today, front end still means iOS, Android or whatever development framework is popular to make those nice GUI front ends. Few people can imagine any other type for the future of front-end software ...