Event Core

This component is at the very core of EventBench and provides the handling of events. The component provides a class Event which is to be used by all other EventBench components when they work with events. The Event class is an aggregation of an IEventType and an IEventTarget. The interface IEventType defines the type of the event, i.e., what an event does and the interface IEventTarget defines the target of the event, i.e., where the event is sent to. Through instantiations of these classes, concrete event types and event targets are defined. The IEventTarget instantiation implicitly defines to which platform an event belongs.

Since GUIs (both on Desktops and the form of Websites) are one of the main targets of quality assurance tools for event-driven software, the Event Core component also defines generalizations of the IEventType and IEventTarget interfaces that build the foundation to describe events of GUI applications.