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    copied!<p>I'm convinced from <a href="http://www.masukomi.org/talks/unit_testing_talk_2/index.xul?data=slide_data.txt#page2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this presentation</a> and other commentary here on the site that I need to learn to Unit Test. I also realize that there have been many questions about what unit testing is here. Each time I go to consider how it should be done in the application I am currently working on, I walk away confused. It is a xulrunner application application, and a lot of the logic is event-based - when a user clicks here, this action takes place.</p> <p>Often the examples I see for testing are testing classes - they instantiate an object, give it mock data, then check the properties of the object afterward. That makes sense to me - but what about the non-object-oriented pieces?</p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2364/what-is-your-experience-with-unit-testing-in-practice#2390">This guy mentioned</a> that GUI-based unit testing is difficult in most any testing framework, maybe that's the problem. The presentation linked above mentions that each test should only touch one class, one method at a time. That seems to rule out what I'm trying to do.</p> <p>So the question - how does one unit testing procedural or event-based code? Provide a link to good documentation, or explain it yourself.</p> <p>On a side note, I also have a challenge of not having found a testing framework that is set up to test xulrunner apps - it seems that the tools just aren't developed yet. I imagine this is more peripheral than my understanding the concepts, writing testable code, applying unit testing.</p>
 

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