How to test a WPF user interface?

Question

Using win forms with an MVC/MVP architecture, I would normally use a class to wrap a view to test the UI while using mocks for the model and controller/presenter. The wrapp

Answer 1

Manually. I'm not a big fan of automated UI testing if that is what you're getting at. I'm not sure about the WPF guidances (need to read thru aku's links).. because they are still solidifying so to speak... WPF has not stabilized from the point of 'what is the right way'. Unless you're using one of these evolving frameworks.. I'd be conservative w.r.t. effort

• Test (Automated preferably TDDed) the logic/presenters/controllers ruthlessly. I'm not advocating sloppiness or lethargy.
• Keep the UI skin thin and get some nasty testers to go have a (manual) crack at it with exploratory testing - nothing is as good as a 'tester from Hell' when it comes to UIs. The effort : gain ratio from automating this kind of testing is huge, doesn't catch everything and doesn't make sense... except to pacify the higher ups 'Look Mgr! No hands! self-testing UIs!'

PS: you may want to watch this (Mary Poppendieck's Google Talk on Lean).. especially the part about what to automate in testing