Effective GUI Testing Automation: Developing an Automated GUI Testing Tool - Softcover

Li, Kanglin; Wu, Mengqi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0782143512 ISBN 13: 9780782143515

Publisher: Sybex, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Kanglin Li is a software engineer responsible for software development, testing, and deployment at Communication Data Services. He has developed applications in Pascal, C++, Java, Visual Basic, and C#. From 1995-2001, Li taught at North Carolina A&T State University. He is the author of Effective Software Test Automation (Sybex, 2004) and 14 articles and technical papers.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sybex
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0782143512
• ISBN 13: 9780782143515
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 445