RoutineBot – Test Automation Tool Review – Technology does not matter?

Nearly a year has passed when I wrote about a tool that in a different way comes to gui test automation. In article titled “iTestBot – new idea in test automation” I was wondering the solution based on the images / screenshots. It is very simple and very illustrative technique, allows you to write easily [...]

RIATest 3 – Professional Flex Test Automation

I remember RIATest tool when it was young, starting solution with many bugs, configuration issues etc. but very promising at all. There were milestone v1 and v2 and at the end, the version number three which appears to be a worthy tool for enterprise-class. I will try to check it, write simple flex application and [...]

Elementool – Test Case Management Review

After my several articles about JIRA as Test Case Management Tool I was invited by Elementool Company folks to join online presentation regarding TestCase Management in their software. On http://www.elementool.com/ website is written “Elementool is the leading provider of web based project management tools…” let’s verify this rule. They offer a bunch of project management [...]

FlexMonkey – first questions, first steps…

1. What about modals ?
Nothing extraordinary ! Modal windows are only another type of components container. We must have the knowledge that automation API agent is looking for components in our modal and underlaying container ! So if we have button “Save” in Alert and “Save” in toolbar FlexMonkey will click only the first declared [...]

FlexMonkey 1.0 – Complete Testing Solution ?

Serveral months ago I reviewed FlexMonkey as a test automation tool. Great stuff but with no official release > 1.0 Now we have to download fresh and ready 1.0 version from http://code.google.com/p/flexmonkey/
Changes ?

Fluint / FlexUnit 4 Test Creation
New GUI
Snapshots !
Ant and Hudson / CI Support
Property and Bitmap Verification

Adobe article : http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flexmonkey.html
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FlexMonkey – Flex Test Automation Tool Review

My review plan regarding tools for automated testing of GUI applications written in Adobe Flex, starting from the most promising, easy-to-use FlexMonkey.
The program is based on a sample application AutoQuick made by Adobe, available to present opportunities for Flex Automation API. We are dealing with a typical  Record and Playback application with a small but [...]

Three fresh links – Free Flex Automation Tools

I am preparing to review all the opensource Flex automation frameworks for now we have the three fresh links for three software worth to try.
Tools are based on Flex Automaiton API.
Flex Monkey
Provides record and replay features. Easy integrates with continuous integration process. Very promising.
FunFx
Great for Ruby lovers, based on Watir experiences. FunFX is the result [...]

Desktop Applications Performance Testing Automatization

We know, nowadays, how to automatically examine the performance of web applications or simple web pages, it is based mainly on how the web server can cope with a large number of simultaneous sessions/users. There are plenty of professional and open source tools: JMeter, WebLoad, etc., the most of them are targeted to a new [...]