Effective GUI Testing Automation: Developing an Automated GUI Testing Tool

Software test engineers: here is the first book to teach you how to build and use a fully automated GUI testing tool. Simply feed the GUI component under test, get the results, and fix the bugs. While the book's examples are written in C#, you can use your preferred language for developing the testing tool and download the complete tool from Sybex.com. The sole book that covers GUI test automation using CodeDom, Reflection, and data stores, here is a perfect complement to Kanglin Lee's previous book from Sybex - Effective Software Test Automation. This is a unique product - and it works!

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.

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 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 Effective GUI Test Automation is the perfect complement to Li and Wu's previous book, Effective Software Test 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 processand, as a result, software that is as bug-free as possible. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reported in 2002 that inadequate software testing causes a loss of $59.5 billion annually in the United States. Human testers are prone to overlook flaws; only an automated tool can ensure product quality. This is crucial because the graphical user interface (GUI) is the part of an application that provides the principal user experience, directly affecting productivity, yet there is no fully automated tool on the market for testing GUIs. Until now.... This book introduces an automated GUI testing tool. Engineers simply feed the GUI component under test, get the test result, and fix the bugs 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 teaches you to build and use your own truly automated tool. It shows you how to store your test data and verification standard separately, so you can build it once and use it for other GUIs.