Freeware tool to automate GUI Testing

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Hello All ,

I have developed one windows application which has 4 text boxes to display calculated values from sql server query.

I am following below process for data validation.
1) Take each query which has been used behind each text box.
2) Run each query manually into sql server and manullay match result of sql server with the values of repestive text box on application .

Now I want to automate this process and looking for freeware GUI testing tool which will do like this :
I will create test case like
a) Start gui testing tool
b) whch will record text box value from application
c) Automatically run respective query into sql server (Or using OLDB connection internally)
d) Match both values return back test result.

Pleae suggest me.

Posted 8-Jan-13 22:28pm

RDBurmon

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Valery Possoz · Answer 1 · 2013-01-13T02:06:00

Hello,

See here, there are plenty to choose from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GUI_testing_tools[^]

There is an interesting article on Codeproject that describes how to use the White framework to perform the tasks you want to do.
White: An UI Automation Tool for Windows Application[^]

The White framework can be found there:
http://teststack.github.com/White/[^]

Another tool you could use is AutoIt. it's not open-source, but it is a freeware and should be able to do the job you want to do:
http://www.autoitscript.com/site/[^]

If you are using Visual Studio (premium and ultimate editions), have a look at CodedUI. This is really good and powerful.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd286726.aspx[^]

Valery.

Andreas Gieriet · Answer 2 · 2013-01-13T02:30:00

To consider:

Assuming you have separated the GUI from the business logic, I strongly suggest to test the businesslogic independent from the GUI. E.g. in .NET by means of MVVM and run tests based on the provided commands.
GUI Test is then only for checking if the GUI properly connects to the business logic (e.g. if the open menu really triggers the open function and not for example the save function, etc.)
Finally, you don't get away without manual GUI tests: rendering, color, readability, clipping, etc. needs visual inspection. I.e. I doubt that you get robust automation for these topics.

E.g. in your example, you would have a ViewModel that provides the SQL queries (not the GUI, the GUI in this scenario does not know anything about SQL...). You would test the ViewModel without the GUI and check the proper response from the business logic again in the ViewModel. The GUI test then only checks if the correct function is triggered, i.e. if each text box is bound to the right ViewModel property.

Separate GUI from the rest - DFT (Design-For-Test)!

Cheers
Andi

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