When program fails to find a component in a test case, a failure trace is shown. It shows attributes of components in the hierarchy. For example:
[name=null, text='Close', enabled=true, visible=true, showing=false]
I wonder what value of visible and showing tell us about the component.
This are properties from the java.awt.Component class.
The JavaDoc for these properties (https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/awt/Component.html) has the following information:
visible:
Determines whether this component should be visible when its parent is visible.
showing:
Determines whether this component is showing on screen. This means that the component must be visible, and it must be in a container that is visible and showing.
