Response time and display rate in human performance with computers
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Impact of system response time on state anxiety
Communications of the ACM
User interface evaluation in the real world: a comparison of four techniques
CHI '91 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Survey on user interface programming
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Toward automatic generation of novice user test scripts
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using latency to evaluate interactive system performance
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Using a goal-driven approach to generate test cases for GUIs
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Improving interactive performance using TIPME
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Past, present, and future of user interface software tools
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction in the new millennium, Part 1
Automated test oracles for GUIs
SIGSOFT '00/FSE-8 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering: twenty-first century applications
Coverage criteria for GUI testing
Proceedings of the 8th European software engineering conference held jointly with 9th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Postgresql Developer's Handbook
Postgresql Developer's Handbook
Performance monitoring of java applications
WOSP '02 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Software and performance
GUI Testing: Pitfalls and Process
Computer
What Is Software Testing? And Why Is It So Hard?
IEEE Software
Layout Appropriateness: A Metric for Evaluating User Interface Widget Layout
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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The graphical user interface (GUI) is an important component of many software systems. Past surveys indicate that the development of a GUI is a significant undertaking and that the GUI's source code often comprises a substantial portion of the program's overall source base. Graphical user interface creation frameworks for popular object-oriented programming languages enable the rapid construction of simple and complex GUIs. In this paper, we examine the run-time performance of two GUI creation frameworks, Swing and Thinlet, that are tailored for the Java programming language. Using a simple model of a Java GUI, we formally define the difficulty of a GUI manipulation event. After implementing a case study application, we conducted experiments to measure the event handling latency for GUI manipulation events of varying difficulties. During our investigation of the run-time performance of the Swing and Thinlet GUI creation frameworks, we also measured the CPU and memory consumption of our candidate application during the selected GUI manipulation events. Our experimental results indicate that Thinlet often outperformed Swing in terms of both event handling latency and memory consumption. However, Swing appears to be better suited, in terms of event handling latency and CPU consumption, for the construction of GUIs that require manipulations of high difficulty levels.