Testing GUI applications
In a complex and feature-rich GUI application, the user is presented with many choices of widgets, menus, keyboard shortcuts, and so on. As seen earlier in the chapter, the event-driven nature of GUI programs lets the user dictate the program flow. This often presents many possible ways for the user to perform certain operations to arrive at the desired output.
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It should be noted that we are not going to write any code here. This is just a high-level discussion that touches upon a few important testing considerations. For further learning on this topic, start with the following wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface_testing.
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