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Created and summarized by Brian Marick.
The difficulties of test automation through a GUI are well known. (See the writeups described in the automated testing survey.) I have long advocated an approach whereby automated tests bypass the GUI and use a programmatic or scripting interface to get at the "guts" of the program. (It's usually the guts that you most want to test.)
The program being tested is AbiWord, which is one of the Testing Craft projects.
(not done)
I have to do the work before I can write about it.
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