On Jan 13, 8:17 pm, robogeek <reiki...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 12, 10:25 am, Jess Holle <je...@ptc.com> wrote: > > > Entirely dismissing Flex, JavaFX, and Silverlight all because they don't > > have as many automated testing tools as DHTML seems a bit much. > > > Testability is a great *ability. It is not the only *ability, though. > > > Testing DHTML isn't a panacea either. Once you get unpredictable > > database ids and other real-world stuff involved one can't achieve the > > panacea promised by various testing frameworks. > > I agree maybe that's a bit drastic but I tend to agree with them. I > think one of the reasons platforms-other-than-windows has less > acceptance is the lack of commercial GUI test automation tools for any > platform other than Windows. An IT shop delivering apps for their > business to use had ought to be testing those apps and the obvious > thing is for them to rely on commercial automation tools and .. > there's a chicken and egg problem here due to the fact that primarily > those tools are Windows based.
I have never heard a business user say that we must build for windows since we can test the UI. Business users just don't care about anything that does not work with Word/Excel. And large companies don't want to migrate years of work away from Windows. Michael
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