5 Great Automation Tools Based On Image Recognition

Another summary, this time to take to the workshop a set of tool for automated tests based on recognition of images. This type of treatment application corresponds to the type of Blackbox testing and allows you to quickly achieve the intended results.
I advise you to view all links included, their order is random, so read [...]

4 Ways to Automate Flex GUI Testing

It is time for a brief summary of a review series regarding automation tools, mostly for RIA – Flex applications. The sequence given below does not matter, it is important that each of these tools work and can be successfully implemented in your own test environment. The choice is up to you, write what you [...]

Covers Everything? – Ranorex Automation Tool Review

Still looking for the ideal solution for automated tests, you probably also have this problem. It is possible to find it ? I do not think so. Test automation tools are rather young solutions and in conjunction with these days fast growing technologies (Flex, Silverlight, Ajax) have problems to cover all needed functionality. In my [...]

FlairBuilder – Fast and Easy GUI Mockups

There are many tools like Mockups, GUI Prototyping, Wireframing and other buzzwords like that, but the point is to improve user interface quality and usability. Some of these tools are enterprise ready, some are in the early level of development with many issues and finally some of them are in the middle. Today I want [...]

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 [...]

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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