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Test Driven Development of JavaFX

I just completed the code.makery javafx-8 tutorial by Marco Jacob. It took a couple of hours to complete and there is quite a lot of implementation done ahead of it being needed which make it a bit hard to follow. But overall I recommend it to get a good understanding how the different MVC parts in a JavaFX project interacts.

Now, is it possible to use a TDD approach when developing a JavaFX application? Seaching the net a bit I found this presentation by Hendrik Ebbers that points to TestFX. A test framework that provides "simple and clean testing for JavaFX".

I am adding TestFX to the list of tools to be used during the development of my Record Collector Java mini project.

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