gui-testing

GUI Automation testing - Window handle questions

Our company is currently writing a GUI automation testing tool for compact framework applications. We have initially searched many tools but none of them was right for us. By using the tool you can record test-cases and group them together to test-suites. For every test-suite there is generated an application, which launches the applic...

How do you test your Cocoa GUIs?

I would like to write some tests for the GUI of my Cocoa program. Is there any good GUI testing framework for Cocoa apps? The only thing I found is Squish, which, at 2.400€, is well beyond my budget… Any ideas? How do you test your Cocoa GUIs? ...

Why is TestComplete so slow ?

We are using TestComplete from AQTime to test the GUI at client with our Client/Server application. It is compiled with Delphi 2007. The source of client is about 1.4 millions sourcelines. The hardware is a Intel dualcore 2.13 Mhz, 2 GB RAM using Windows XP Pro. I compile the application with all debug options and also link in TCOpenApp...

Software Test Automation - Masters Thesis

Hi, i am trying to write a thesis about Software Test Automation. I plan to compare the two Approaches of Recording and Programming of Test Scripts, and to discuss about several Automation Frameworks, for example Abbot, Selenium, Yemmy, FEST, etc ... Also in my Thesis will be a short overview about Softwaretesting Techniques and maybe a...

How to enter text in a cross-platform way with the AWT Robot?

The AWT Robot lets you send key press and release events given the keycode of the key you want to press. But the combination of key(s) you need to use to type a character depends on the input locale (e.g. the keyboard layout). We've worked around that by writing our own Keyboard abstraction that maps characters to AWTKeyStrokes and l...

Selenium is to Web UI testing as ________ is to Windows application UI testing

I'm interested in UI testing a client only Java application. What is the most popular framework for doing so? What is your recommended framework? Also, why doesn't Selenium do this (or does it)? It seems to me that anything that can test a web app should be able to test a windows app. ...

Automated UI testing a large c# forms app

I am working on a fairly complicated project. We have a c# forms app that has several layers of business logic, communicating with a c++ hardware management layer via a socket interface. We have unit test coverage of the c++ side, and the business logic, but acceptance testing of the forms app is a whole new world for me, as we have do...

Experiences with Test Automation FX

Looking to add UI testing to my WinForms 3.5 project. Currently using MSTest for unit testing and MSBuild to build it. One option I am looking at is Test Automation FX. The product seems to be a bit new and not fully polished, but it seems to work. So, I'm curious if anyone else is using and has good or bad things to say about it. I...

Handling SWT Dialog boxes while running tests in headless mode using SWTBOT

I am running a Junit test case on my eclipse application that was built using SWT. I am doing GUI testing using SWTBot. So, here is my problem: editor.bot().button("Make Excel Template").click(); This code helps me generate a template in my application. Once done, it throws up a Modal Dialog with "OK" as a message. However, I can't get...

how to make gui test without displaying in FEST-SWING

Hi guys In my final project,we are using FEST for gui testing, we have been persuaded fest is powerfull,but displaying of frames everytime is very waste of time ,Also we are using continuum ,fest cant work in continuum,because continuum's maven cant open gui(by the way we use maven too ,our tests pass in our maven in our local machin...

Automating GUI testing using C#

I am doing on a project to built automatic GUI testing for graphical application in .NET. I will use C# but i am trying to reading to get some ideas. But I don't have any idea on how to record and replay back. So can you give me your ideas. ...

Selenium Testing

Hi I want to get a bunch of dom-objects with xpath and loop through those to check if they contains a specified text, is this possible in the Selenium IDE or rc? Perl is my prefered language XPath would be something like xpath=//tbody[@class='table-data']/tr/td/div[@class='table-item'] This would return all row items in the table, but...

Free GUI Tester for manual users

Hi I been trying MS Test manager 2010 and man it sucks bad. It's got huge potential but right now it sucks and is too buggy and crashes on all my development machines every few mins. So is there any free software what can sort of do it the same thing? Like what I liked about it is this. It had a nice check list on the side you woul...

automated ui testing / X11 framebuffers / hardware acceleration

Hi fellow SOers i'm working on a automated UI testing environment, right now it works pretty decent. The basic idea is that i create a virtual framebuffer instance with: Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1024x768x24 -fbdir vfb_test/fbdir & then, to run an application inside it (say, xcalc) i would do export DISPLAY=localhost=1.0 xterm -e '/usr/X11/...

FEST-swing example doesn't work, frame.isShowing() return false

Try to use the FEST-Swing for Swing GUI testing, and using example from http://easytesting.org/swing/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=FEST-Swing.LaunchFromMain Unfortunately the frame.isShowing() always return false though I already see the JavaApp Swing is running See my codes ... ApplicationLauncher.application(JavaApp.class).start(); Gene...

Java regression testing (with AWT involved) possible without stealing desktop focus?

I've got regression tests of a Java system that don't bring up any graphical elements but do make use of the AWT event thread. Is there any way I can set things up to run this test suite in the background on my workstation without it constantly grabbing focus from whatever else I'm working on? (I'm running this on a mac.) ...

.NET Web browser component that allow you to capture the GET and POST data

I'd like to develop an .NET application, where you navigate in a website and the app records the GET and POST data you send to the server, so later on you can reproduce it programatically. I've been taking a look on the WinForm's WebBrowser component but I see no way to get the POST data I'm sending. Do you know of any component (even ...

What is the state of ASP.NET MVC Contrib UI Testing Helpers?

Back in April I was listening to Herding Code episode 77 about MvcContrib. There Eric Hexter announced UI Testing Helpers as a big upcoming feature. Now several months later I was searching the web for any information about UI testing with MvcContrib. Unfortunately I found almost nothing: This sneek peek: http://codepaste.net/cw8ie4 ...

Why is a menu item disabled when using SWTBot?

I've written up a GUI test using SWTBot to test the Extract Method refactoring. I use editor.selectRange() to select a statement to extract into a method. But, when I run the unit test, the Extract Method refactoring menu item is disabled. Thus, SWTBot fails to invoke the refactoring. The whole project containing the above unit test is ...

Are there any good frameworks for automated testing of AWT GUIs?

Are there any good frameworks for automated testing of AWT GUIs? Integration with JUnit would be a plus. ...