Hello, we are evaluating JPlanner for possible use in our product. Our developers are mostly happy with what it offers, but as a test specialist, I have some requirements the devs don't have: automated testing of the User Interface.

We have a commercial test automation tool, Ranorex, for UI testing of our product (a Java Swing client). Ranorex works based on recognition of java UI objects (like buttons, tables, cells, text, etc).

However, for some reason it does not recognise very much objects within JPlanner. See the two attached screenshots: only the Jplanner as a whole (top level item), the scrollbar and up/down button and the left/right (to change date) button are recognised components.

Anything else is not recognised. Not an empty time frame, not a reserved time frame. Obviously, I do need access to these items if I want to do serious UI testing.

Do you know of this limitation and is there anything that can be done about it? It is strange, Ranorex works very good with all Swing we have in our products, and I'm assuming JPlanner is also Swing.

It will be hard to move forward with JPlanner if we cannot perform UI tests on this part, so any help or advice is appreciated!

Hello,

thanks for your quick response! Graphics2D API instead of Swing, at least that explains why Ranorex has trouble finding items.

So, an option is to ask Ranorex to provide provision for JPlanner, we just have to convince them that JPlanner is very popular .

Slavcho wrote on Feb 15^th, 2017 at 1:10pm:


I'll discuss this part with the developers on my team, see what we can do with that.

Again, thanks for the quick reply.