Good free tool for GUI Testing?

[Novice]

I'm looking for a good free tool with which to do GUI testing. It would be
great if it can handle Swing, applets, applications, and Java Web Start but
I'm willing to consider tools that don't do all of that. For the moment, I
need to test a Swing application that will likely run in Java Web Start so
that's the most important combination I need to satisfy.

I googled and got a lot of hits. All of them, of course, sound wonderful
and some are even in my price range but I've never used any of them so I'd
like to hear from people who've actually used some free GUI testers who can
suggest which ones are worth the time and which I should avoid.


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Novice

[mauro.g...@gmail.com]

Hi,
a good FREE (and open source) framework for Java GUI testing is Maveryx http://www.maveryx.com.

It has many good point:
- It can handle Swing, (soon) applets, applications, and Java Web Start.
- There are no custom script language, you can write your test case in java.
- Thera are no GUI MAP dependences, you don't need any "capture and replay", only write your test and go!
- It's fully compatible with JUnit through the Maveryx Eclipse plug-in.

Mauro