Coming from a strong Mercury/HP background, I would highly recommend using QuickTest Professional for your GUI testing. It has a lot of the same functionality as WinRunner, but without a lot of code. Simple GUI checks can be done through the QTP interface with minimal, if any, custom VB code. Checks for text next to boxes can be done with simple compares using the datasheet in QTP.
If you are used to WinRunner, and know VBScript (not so much TSL), then I would definantly look at QTP.
As far as your other requirements, QTP also has the Spy feature, like WinRunner, that will list all properties and actions you can perform on objects. And as for simplicity of use, at my old job, we would have business or system testers create simple smoke scripts, then I would take them and code them for more in-depth testing (multiple data values, error checking, etc). And as for reporting, QTP will do simple reporting of pass/fail/warning on tags that you put in, along with custom data you can input. So you could use a case statement to populate your output values based on your results. It won't do e-mail naitevly, but if you integrate with TestDirector/QualityCenter, you can setup through there, along with automating the kick-off of your scripts, and parameterizing data right from there (which is nice to send back to testers to have populate data without being involved in the script itseld).
Pat
