Testing SWING app with no user interaction

Hi,
I have a small SWING application, it contains a few text fields and a
button. I want to test this without human interaction. For buttons, I tried the button.doClick() but it did not do anything! And for the text fields, I can't figure out how to do it. I am relatively new to SWING, I would appreciate your help so much.
Thanks,
Ann

It may not be what you want, but why can't you simply have the button call a method when pressed. That way, in your test code you can simply call that method.
button.addActionListener( new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e ) {
doAction();
// Debug
if (DEBUG) {
doAction();
}Jonathan

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