Educational Support for Testing Graphical User Interfaces

计算机科学(31)“测试图形用户界面的教育支持”项目正在开发课程材料，以帮助学生在调试图形用户界面(GUI)的入门编程课程中。智力优势：随着教育工作者将图形交互技术引入入门课程，一个关键的问题已经出现；虽然存在适合级别的支持，用于教学生如何测试内部类和基于文本的程序，但对于初级程序员测试他们的图形用户界面程序，几乎没有适合级别的支持。这个项目正在通过开发一个用于调试对象绘制的类库来解决这个问题，这是一个广泛使用的入门级Java图形用户界面库，在Abbot包的帮助下，Abbot包是一个用于图形用户界面测试的开源JUnit扩展。广泛的影响：这个提议正在建立一个自我维持的教育工作者社区，他们对涉及配备了图形用户界面的程序的基于测试的活动的资源感兴趣。他们正在与现有的开源软件开发项目合作，以便提供对其工作的开放访问。该项目通过从波多黎各大学马亚圭兹分校、德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校和弗吉尼亚理工大学的多元文化学术机会项目招募拉美裔研究生，鼓励代表不足的群体的成员继续从事计算机科学。

Computer Science (31)The "Educational Support for Testing Graphical User Interfaces" project is developing curricula materials to assist students in introductory programming courses in debugging graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Intellectual Merit: As educators push graphical interaction techniques down into introductory courses, a critical problem has emerged; while level-appropriate support exists for teaching students how to test internal classes and text-based programs, there is little level-appropriate support for beginning programmers to test their graphical user interfaces programs. This project is addressing this problem by developing a class library for debugging objectdraw, a widely used introductory-level Java GUI library, with the assistance of the Abbot package, an open-source JUnit extensions for GUI testing.Broader Impacts: This proposal is building a self-sustaining community of educators interested in resources for testing-based activities involving GUI-equipped programs. They are working with existing open-source software development projects in order to provide open access to their work. The project is encouraging members of underrepresented groups to continue in computer science by recruiting Hispanic graduate students from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, the University of Texas at El Paso, and Virginia Tech's Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program.