How To Call Action Listener Automatically And Without Doing It Manually

I'm not a java developer, i'm a tester. I am currently testing a java swing application and to do that I have to automate how its used. IE I have to write code which will press buttons for me rather than depending on an end user to do this. I have managed to reverse engineer the entire application (hooray for me), however I am struggling to work out how to invoke methods that would typically be kicked off by a user pressing a button. how to I can call actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) method which sits in the ATMMainPanel class?

I will be calling it from inside another method which is the equivalent of the main() method.

Java Code:

public class ATMMainPanel extends JPanel implements ActionListener {
[declarations here]
//here - User is pressing the Enter button after putting in pin.
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
[code performed when button is pressed]
} mh_sh_highlight_all('java');