UI Testing Tool? [closed]

Answer 1

TestComplete.

You can definitely use capture-replay to capture and run the test script. But I would suggest that you must at least manually edit your scripts to make them

1. more readable
2. easier to maintain.

The good thing about TestComplete is that it is able to look into your form's properties, capture those properties so that you can refer to those properties by their name, not by just screen coordinates.

Answer 2

We were using Mercury TestDirector a few years ago and quite happy with it. (All the caveats as mentioned by others apply.)

Mercury was aquired by HP and the tools have been rebranded as HP QuickTest. Not sure how much has changed, but certainly worth a look.

I tried to include a link to the HP website, but the URL doesn't look too "stable". Not exactly a confidence builder ....

Answer 3

You should have a look at http://opensourcetesting.org/functional.php A lot of tools are listed here and you should find something that meet your needs.

Answer 4

Visual Studio Team Test 2010 is coming with a tool for recording and playing back UI tests. You'll find some pointers at:

Introduction to Record and Playback Engine in VSTT 2010

Answer 5

At my company, we decided to go with http://www.sikuli.org/. We felt it was the perfect mix of cost (free), ease-of-use, functionality and extend-ability.

Sikuli is Python based (Jython, really) which is great and its open-source. There's a tiny bit of coding required, but it can be as easy as just calling functions. Their IDE makes it really easy to get started. It is not a record and playback tool. It functions based on computer vision algorithms - you give it screenshots of what to look for and it finds it on the screen and then performs the requested action (click, type, etc) on what it found. This is true independent testing since Sikuli knows nothing about the software its testing. It does not know about underlying APIs - it just does what a real human would do.

We have integrated Sikuli with Robot Framework, http://robotframework.org/, and have created lots of custom python code to build a robust testing platform. This may not be as easy as licensing a tool from a vendor but the time and talent investment in these two open source tools has been well worth it.

Answer 6

(I was going to just comment on an answer above, but ran out of room.) We bought Ranorex, and I wouldn't do it again. Their licensing for 1.5 (what we're using) was unclear. Their written license was per user, their marketing said per machine. Still, enforcement was key-based, and not a big deal when a machine got wiped or a replacement tester came in.

For the 2.0 product, their licensing is now tied to the machine. Reimage a machine and you get to relicense it. I'm just not going to support that kind of hassle with my company's thousands of dollars, and we didn't upgrade.

For what they want for the product, a lot of the functionality could be easily written using the UI Automation Framework. Ranorex is a decent product, but I question its value for the money. We're moving a lot of our new tests to just coding to the UI Automation Framework, as we often end up modifying Ranorex-generated code anyway.