ui-testing

Selenium Critique

Hi all, I just wanted some opinions from people that have run Selenium (http://selenium.openqa.org) I have had a lot of experience with WaTiN and even wrote a recording suite for it. I had it producing some well structured code but being only maintained by me it seems my company all but abandoned it. If you have run selenium have you ha...

How do you simulate frequent database activity for realistic testing?

I'm building a web app against a database where a small number of records (about 5000) are active at the same time. Each active working record probably experiences 50-300 changes by 30 users over a 4 hour period ... which is thousands of changes per minute. Because our testing environment is so static, testing is not realistic, and som...

Flex: Testing UI components at the click level?

I've been working on a Flex component and I'd like to write some automated tests for it. The trouble is, the UI testing tools I've looked at (FlexMonkey and Selenium Flex API) don't simulate "enough": Most of the bugs which have come up so far relate to the way Flex deals with dragging and dropping, which these libraries can't simulate ...

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. ...

Who writes the automated UI tests? Developers or Testers?

We're in the initial stages of a large project, and have decided that some form of automated UI testing is likely going to be useful for us, but have not yet sorted out exactly how this is going to work... The primary goal is to automate a basic install and run-through of the app, so if a developer causes a major breakage (eg: app won't...

About UI test for Flash

Excuse me, I am finding a tool for making UI test for program written in Flash. May I ask is there any recommended tool for that? And actually, do I need to consider platform issue (i.e. web browser version, OS version, etc.)? And is it usually the UI testing tool for Flash can only test Flash separately? Or they may also test Flash e...

cannot do playback in iMacro: element not found

Excuse me, I have tried to use iMacro in FireFox to do playback. However, it seems that during the playback, it try to click a button before the page finish loading such that the playback stop and iMacro complains that the element (i.e. the button )cannot be found. I have encountered similar problem in Selenium and have used "clickAndW...

When creating a custom Toolkit, why does createFrame fail on OSX?

We are trying to extend the UISpec4j testing framework to display the user interface when running tests. So we have a custom toolkit that wraps around the native toolkit for the relevant platform. We managed to get everything working well on windows XP, however when testing our changes on OSX, our extension of createFrame appears to beha...