Effective GUI Testing Automation (eBook)

Developing an Automated GUI Testing Tool

Kanglin Li, Mengqi Wu (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2006 | 1. Auflage
446 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-7821-5067-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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.

Chapter 12: Menu Clicking for GUI Test Automation.

Chapter 13: User-Defined and COM-Based Controls.

Chapter 14: Testing Issues for Non .NET Applications.

Selected Bibliography.

Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Schlagworte: Benutzerschnittstelle • Computer Science • Informatik • Programmierung / Benutzeroberflächen • Programmierung / Benutzeroberflächen • Programming / User Interface Design
• ISBN-10: 0-7821-5067-5 / 0782150675
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7821-5067-4 / 9780782150674