Is there Anyone who Successfully Implement UI Test Automation Regime using Microsoft UI Automation?

Question

I am looking for an Automated UI test framework/ software tool. In the past I have been using TestComplete, and although it's a good piece of software, but the concept of GUI test automation was deemed to be sufficiently difficult that I wrote a few posts to complain about it.

One of the problems with third party test automation tool is that you have to learn new language in order to be productive on it, not to mention that the tooling support is poor. I am now planning to look into Microsoft UI Automation that comes with .Net 3.0 and the White Framework. But before I do that, I want to know what's the outcome there.

Anyone has any experience to share on this? Have you create a sustainable and successful test suite using UI automation on your application?

Edit: This seems like a very hard question. I would setup bounty for this if I don't receive any answers within these few days.

Answer 1

I have no experience with Microsoft UI Automation, but I'm using AutoIt (http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/) to do a little bit of GUI automation. I'm using it to test my Visual Studio add-in. Not really an answer to your question, but it could be interesting for you.

Regards,

Sebastiaan

Answer 2

We use the White test framework here with great results.

The framework uses win32 messaging to find the controls and interact with them. It's fairly slow on large forms with a lot of controls however, that's the only drawback I've encountered. We automate the test running using buildbot and nunit-console too.

Answer 3

Cold Response... Better I answer a dummy answer, just in case there is no good answer to this.

Answer 4

Ive used a lightweight version of UI automated testing for the .net framework using a similar approach to this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163864.aspx

I did encounter issues using tabs and deciding which panels were going to be used, but that eventually led to a redesign of the form (so it pretty much found issues in design too!)

Answer 5

I have been using MS UI Automation framework using C#.net and i found this extremely simplem and helpful.No issues were observed as such but it lacks report generating support so you need to write your own logic for that based on your specific test case.

Overall satisfaction : 8 / 10.