Automated Web UI Testing [closed]

Answer 1

Having used several different automated testing solutions (TestComplete, QTP, etc), I have to put a vote in for Telerik + Visual Studio. Telerik has great support forums, and is very compatible with whatever testing framework you come up with. Our Devs put unique IDs into their HTML code so that our scripts don't need to be rewritten even with pretty drastic UI refactors. It's definitely more challenging than record and playback, but once you have your unique IDs in place, the automation code requires little or no maintenance.

Answer 2

Depend on what you would like to achieve.

You can use web test built in the Visual Studio Tester Edition. It's quite good and easy to automate. You can use external data as a test data source and it integrates nicely with VS.

There is also test tool by Automated QA (forgot the name) which looks good but expensive.

And there is Selenium. That's the one we are using in Symantec. The biggest advantage is that it actually uses a browser you want to test. VS mimic a browser by changing http request parameters only so you may not be able to test your site for cross-browser compatibility. Selenium on the other hand uses browser and automates it so you can actually test your site in IE, Firefox etc. It can be also integrated with VS unit tests so you can see test results in VS.

So I would recommend Selenium or VS.

Answer 3

Watin is pretty unstable to use it in serious projects. It often fails with unexpected reasons like "EI is busy" or something like "Error with COM object". Selenium is much more stable and it already has a lot of supporting tools. For example Selenium GRID is a solution which allows significantly decrease run time of tests. (Our smoke tests on Watin takes 6 hours to run).

Answer 4

WatiN

Automates FF and IE

[Test] 
public void SearchForWatiNOnGoogle()
{
 using (IE ie = new IE("http://www.google.com"))
 {
  ie.TextField(Find.ByName("q")).TypeText("WatiN");
  ie.Button(Find.ByName("btnG")).Click();

  Assert.IsTrue(ie.ContainsText("WatiN"));
 }
}

http://watin.sourceforge.net/

Answer 5

Just to throw out another option (of which I haven't tried but I do like Telerik) is Telerik's new WebUI Testing Studio. I will also echo Selenium up votes.

Answer 6

You may want to look at RIATest for cross-platform cross-browser testing of web applications.

It works on Windows and Mac, supported browsers are Firefox, IE and Chrome. Automated testing scripts written on one platform/browser can be run against all other supported platforms/browsers.

It has the features that you want: user interaction recording mode and integration with CI servers (outputs results in JUnit format which can be consumed by CI servers such as Hudson).

(Disclaimer: I am a RIATest team member).