[isabelle-dev] Feedback from a Isabelle tutorial

[Makarius]

On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, Clemens Ballarin wrote:

> Quoting Makarius <makarius at sketis.net>:
>
>> In principle everything is possible, but one needs to try hard to minimize 
>> "options" and "features".  Otherwise it becomes impossible to maintain 
>> robustness of the application.  There are no proper automated test 
>> procedures, which means I usually play through all the important things 
>> manually (on 3 platform families).
>
> Java provides support for GUI tests through a Robot class, and there are 
> frameworks out there since everybode has this problem.  It'll sure be worth 
> investigating automatic testing (student project?).

I have heard of such things before, but have not tried anything so far.

After a few years working with JVM frameworks I no longer take anything 
for granted by default.  It always requires a lot of extra work to make 
things work more than half way.

What did these people do in all these years with all the $$$$?


 	Makarius