Testing with JemmyFX, JavaFX and ScalaTest

To ease the burden of the testing team, developers should always write automated tests. For JavaFX, there is a library called "JemmyFX" which provides an API to write such tests.

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Using Scala and Scalatest, your tests for JavaFX could look like this:



At the moment of writing this blog post, there was no maven artifact release, but in the Sonatype Snapshot Repository there is one. As such, you would have to add the snapshot repository to your pom and add folowing dependencies to your pom:

<!-- for testing javafx applications -->

<dependency>

<groupId>net.java.jemmy</groupId>

<artifactId>JemmyFX</artifactId>

<version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>

<scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>net.java.jemmy</groupId>

<artifactId>JemmyFXBrowser</artifactId>

<version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>

 <scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>net.java.jemmy</groupId>

<artifactId>Jemmy3Core</artifactId>

<version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>

<scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>net.java.jemmy</groupId>

<artifactId>Jemmy3AWT</artifactId>

<version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>

<scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>net.java.jemmy</groupId>

<artifactId>Jemmy3AWTInput</artifactId>

<version>0.9.3-SNAPSHOT</version>

<scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

A production build should not have dependencies to snapshots of course.

In order for maven to find those artifacts, you have to add the Snapshot Repository to your list of known repositories:

<repositories>

  <repository>

    <id>sonatype snapshots</id>

    <snapshots>

<enabled>true</enabled>

    </snapshots>

    <releases>

<enabled>false</enabled>

    </releases>

<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>

  </repository>

</repositories>

JemmyFX is under heavy development at the moment, but I'm positive a stable release will get published soon. In the meantime the dependencies above give you the ability to implement JemmyFX based tests for your project. Have also a look here for some Java examples how to use JemmyFX.

The scala-javafx-archetype repository at github provides a preconfigured project using the technologies mentioned above.

Small update:

Maybe you want to have a look at the tests for JavaFX for JDK 8 - not long ago the SQE Tests were open sourced here.


nxsw031mac:tests lad$ hg pull
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