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，以帮助学生学习调试图形用户界面的入门编程课程。智力价值：随着教育者将图形交互技术推入入门课程，一个关键问题出现了；虽然存在适当级别的支持来教学生如何测试内部类和基于文本的程序，但对于初级程序员来说，几乎没有适当级别的支持来测试他们的图形用户界面程序。在Abbot包（一个用于GUI测试的开源JUnit扩展）的帮助下，这个项目通过开发一个用于调试objectdraw的类库来解决这个问题。objectdraw是一个广泛使用的入门级Java GUI库。更广泛的影响：该提案正在建立一个自我维持的教育工作者社区，他们对基于测试的活动资源感兴趣，这些活动涉及配备gui的程序。他们正在与现有的开源软件开发项目合作，以便为他们的工作提供开放访问。该项目通过招募来自波多黎各大学马亚圭斯分校、德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校和弗吉尼亚理工大学多元文化学术机会项目的西班牙裔研究生，鼓励弱势群体继续从事计算机科学研究。

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.