Effective GUI Testing Automation

Effective GUI Testing Automation: Developing an Automated GUI Testing Tool

Author:
- Li, Kanglin
- Wu, Mengqi
Subject:

Computer Science
Published by:

John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
Published:

12/11/2004
Price:

$67.99
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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.

Biography

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.

Introduction.

Chapter 1: GUI Testing: An Overview.

Chapter 2: Available GUI Testing Tools vs. the Proposed Tool.

Chapter 3: C# Win32 API Programming and Test Monkeys.

Chapter 4: Developing a GUI Test Library.

Chapter 5: .NET Programming and GUI Testing.

Chapter 6: Testing a Windows Form in General.

Chapter 7: Architecture and Implementation of the Automatic GUI Test Tool.

Chapter 8: Methods of GUI Test Verification.

Chapter 9: Testing Label and Cosmetic GUI Controls.

Chapter 10: Testing a TextBox Control with Input from a Keyboard.

Chapter 11: Testing RadioButton and CheckBox Controls.