Windows Forms Test Automation

Question

We are looking for a way to automate windows forms for acceptance testing. Our requirements are:

• Must be usable by non-developers (ie: people

Answer 1

Posting this on behalf of my wife :)

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We were using a tool from Compuware called TestPartner to create the test scripts for testing a WinForms client-server application. For managing and controlling the scripts execution we were using Compuware QA Director.

TestPartner uses VBA which is quite easy to understand and to use. Some non-developers could even know it because they write Excel macros. It has good record-and-replay functionality and is very good with objects recognition. So you could use it for both simple scripts created by your business users and to create a framework of advanced scripts by your developers and test engineers.