UI Testing Tool? [closed]

Answer 1

Like Tom E stated, do take caution while considering going down the record/playback path for test automation.

See Uncle Bob's article on Ruining your Test Automation Strategy.

The main problem is that the record/playback tools couple the tests to the GUI which makes them very fragile.

Uncle Bob's article does point out that some testing needs to occur on the GUI...but that he recommends stubbing out the business rule code.

Sorry I can't provide you with a specific UI test automation tool...but hopefully this caveat will help you make the best decision on how to employ the tool that you eventually use.

Answer 2

My proposal is QA Agent(http://qaagent.com/). It is free web based IDE for development of web automated tests. Basically you are using jQuery to develop your tests. You can run tests in your browser. It looks like a new projects, but I really like the idea to develop tests in the browser. You know how long it takes to set up your testing environment. With QA Agent it takes 10 seconds.

Answer 3

There are a bunch of similar questions on SO:

• automate-interaction-with-a-gui-interface (Edit: no longer available)
• automated-testing-of-windows-forms (Edit: no longer available)
• automated-testing-of-gui

In my experience, there are a lot of good open source tools for the web, but not so much selection for open source thick client test automation tools. If you want good support with robust functionality, especially recording, you will need to look at the commercial tools (QTP, RFT, TestPartner, etc...)

Answer 4

So far I have found:

• Ranorex which looks really good.
• Test Automation FX, also looks good and seems very well priced.
• Microsoft's UI Automation Framework, which does not have the recorder but if I had to I could code one using this.
• white which looks similar to the UI Automation Framework, but has an alpha quality recorder.

Comments please if you have used any of these.

Answer 5

Some others:

• NUnitForms
• Quail

I believe they're both free, and Quail looks really nice!

Answer 6

Checkout Ranorex, commercial, quite expensive but powerful (not affiliated).