Selenium is to Web UI testing as ________ is to Windows application UI testing [closed]

Answer 1

uispec4j is an open-source alternative. I haven't tried it yet, though. (I'm currently collecting lists of things to try as well, so thanks for asking the question!)

Answer 2

Selenium is JavaScript based Framework so can only run on things that can execute JavaScript. Browsers do this natively.

As far as I am concerned there isn't really a Testing Framework that is comparable to Selenium on the desktop because it is quite hard to write a framework that hooks into the OS as natively as Selenium Hooks into the Browser. Popular, not necessilary best, are QTP, SilkTest, TestComplete

Answer 3

If you are looking for an open-source tool, have a look at Marathon. It lets you record and play back tests, generate reports, and integrate your own code for testing custom components. I've been using it for several years and have hundreds of tests.

There is also a commercial version with more features, but I have not tried it. The open-source version works great for me.

Answer 4

If you have Visual Studio 2010, you could also use the newly introduced Visual Studio UI Automation Testing (also known as Coded UI). It's a bit like using Selenium with an ui-map.

Answer 5

The answer is: "Mercury winrunner", which was hugely popular in the late 90s, and which is probably still widely used for win apps.

Not sold as such anymore, but if I'm not mistaken now available as HP QuickTest Professional. See the wikipedia page on HPQTP.

Its now became HP Unified Functional Testing(UFT)2