Effective GUI Testing Automation (eBook)

Have you tried using an "automated" GUI testing tool, only to find
that you spent most of your time configuring, adjusting, and
directing it?

This book presents a sensible and highly effective alternative:
it teaches you to build and use your own truly automated tool. The
procedure you'll learn is suitable for virtually any development
environment, and the tool allows you to store your test data and
verification standard separately, so you can build it once and use
it for other GUIs. Most, if not all, of your work can be done
without test scripts, because the tool itself can easily be made to
conduct an automatic GUI survey, collect test data, and generate
test cases. You'll spend virtually none of your time playing with
the tool or application under test.

Code-intensive examples support all of the book's instruction,
which includes these key topics:

* Building a C# API text viewer

* Building a test monkey

* Developing an XML viewer using xPath and other XML-related
classes

* Building complex, serializable classes for GUI test
verification

* Automatically testing executable GUI applications and
user-defined GUI controls

* Testing managed (.NET) and unmanaged GUI applications

* Automatically testing different GUI controls, including Label,
TextBox, Button, CheckBox, RadioButton, Menu

* Verifying test results

Effective GUI Test Automation is the perfect complement to Li
and Wu's previous book, Effective Software Test Automation:
Developing an Automated Software Testing Tool. Together, they
provide programmers, testers, designers, and managers with a
complete and cohesive way to create a smoother, swifter development
process--and, as a result, software that is as bug-free as
possible.