Educational Support for Testing Graphical User Interfaces

计算机科学（31）“图形用户界面测试的教育支持”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。智力优势：随着教育工作者将图形交互技术推到入门课程中，一个关键问题出现了;虽然存在用于教学生如何测试内部类和基于文本的程序的水平适当的支持，但对于初学者程序员测试他们的图形用户界面程序的水平适当的支持很少。 这个项目是解决这个问题，通过开发一个类库调试objectdraw，一个广泛使用的入门级Java GUI库，与援助的Abbot包，一个开源的JUnit扩展GUI testing.Broader的影响：这个建议是建立一个自我维持的社区教育工作者感兴趣的资源测试为基础的活动，涉及GUI装备的程序。 他们正在与现有的开源软件开发项目合作，以提供对其工作的开放访问。 该项目鼓励代表性不足的群体的成员继续从事计算机科学，方法是从位于马亚圭斯的波多黎各大学、位于埃尔帕索的德克萨斯大学和弗吉尼亚理工大学的多元文化学术机会项目招募西班牙裔研究生。

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.