Recording and playback of selected applet events of a user interaction sequence

摘要

Recording events that result from user interaction 110 with the various components of an applet 108, such as a Java (RTM) applet. An applet event recorder is invoked and associated with an applet 108 via a graphical user interface. One or more types of events 112 are then selected for recording via a recording options section of the graphical user interface. When a user interaction sequence with the applet 108 occurs, events of the selected type are then detected 116 by the applet event recorder. An automator 102 of the applet event recorder then generates and stores the queued events in the automator queue 106. The generated constructed events utilize an index value to identify a component in the constructed component vector that references each component of the applet, thereby allowing identification of the applet component that generated the user interaction event. The constructed events are then played back by posting them in the system queue thereby achieving the recording and playback of selected events. This results in testing of the Java platform that does not require recompilation of the code or exiting from the applet or application before automation.