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Grate blog i seen ever!! Each and every topic are covered in this blog. Thanks for sharing,keep updating. Your email address will not be published. This is due to the complex nature of automating desktop apps. Most tools that are able to automate desktop apps are usually proprietary, and there are limited open-source options. Standard Criteria When assessing the pros and cons of a specific tool, I used the following criteria. Does it provide its own proprietary technology or build on top of open-source solutions like Selenium WebDriver?
Does it allow testers to inspect the internal properties of UI objects? Does it support its proprietary technique? Figure 2 — Winium test script. Figure 4 — Ranorex Studio showing a keyword-driven test. Figure 5 — Tricentis Tosca UI. Figure 10 — AutoIt script to automate the Windows Calculator app. Figure 11 — Sample test case written in White.
Thuc Nguyen. Thuc Nguyen has been leading the product teams at LogiGear in delivering quality test automation solutions to LogiGear's customers and services clients.
Thuc has a great passion for helping organizations transform their Test Automation, Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices as well as empowering testers of all technical levels to thrive in complex enterprise environments. Good one. RDC, but it is often recommended to use VNC because when you connect using remote desktop, then disconnect, the desktop will be locked, and UI Automation will fail.
It is hard to calculate ROI before implementing the automated testing solution, because there are a lot of variables and unknown factors.
But after the pilot has been implemented, some figures can be drawn. We assume that the solution cost Cost of Investment is paid in full by the client during the first year, not divided, and no loan capital is used. In the first part we have calculated that manual regression testing takes one month: two weeks for a primary run, plus two weeks for a secondary run without checking new tests and associated expenses.
After development and the introduction of automated regression testing 3 months , manual regression testing is not performed for the remaining 9 months. Obviously, the first year provides less payback, and ROI in the following years is going to be much better due to the absence of Cost of Investment. Of course, this calculation is very rough and it does not include support, depreciation, reporting enhancement, and the quality of automatic tests themselves.
We suggest you take these factors into consideration in the next ROI calculation after the first year of AT introduction. Introduction of automated testing saves the QA labor costs and frees up a team of two QA engineers for other tasks, thus optimizing the project resources. Of course, manual testing is still an essential part of the development job. But with a large-scale project of tens of thousands LOCs, where a feature release takes several weeks or more, test automation is crucial.
To figure out whether it is possible and efficient to automate all testing jobs, our team uses the Do Pilot approach, which means automating a small scope of work using a given framework.
Nevertheless, if we use all necessary functionality of paid packaged solutions and expand the team to at least two people, it comes at a price. To spare the customers yearly support costs after having paid for the solution first, we have considered several open source AT frameworks. Two of those met our needs and are being used currently. Therefore, although test automation takes research to find a suitable framework and make automatic tests themselves, it still yields much more advantage than manual test runs.
Thank you for your time. Contact us, we will gladly answer your questions about test automation of any application — even a complex Windows Desktop one. Published at DZone with permission of Alex Azarov. See the original article here. Thanks for visiting DZone today,. Edit Profile. Sign Out View Profile. Over 2 million developers have joined DZone. Open Source. Buckle up, this article takes a deep dive into the benefits, uses, and examples of using test automation for desktop apps.
Like 2. Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Join For Free. Still, there are reasons to keep using desktop apps and there are several ways to use them: User identification.
Fingerprint scanners, passport scanners, etc. Corporate security reasons. The Internet can be restricted or limited at some manufactures or banks. Other reasons. Does Testing Take That Long? Two weeks for secondary testing.
Time to verify bugfixes or correct errors and possible misconfigurations. It specifically designed to support Automation Testing of functional aspects of web-based applications, a wide range of platforms, and browsers. Appium is an open source test automation tool for mobile applications.
It is one of the best open source automation tools which allows users to test all kinds of native, web, and hybrid apps.
It also supports the automated tests on emulators and simulators. Apache JMeter is an open-source load testing tool. It is a Java desktop application designed to load functional test behavior and measure the performance of websites. The tool was developed for the purpose of load testing web applications, but it is now expanded to other test functions.
SikuliX is an open-source GUI based test automation tool. It is mainly used for interacting with elements of web pages and handling windows-based popups. In SikuliX, all the web elements are taken as images and stored inside the project. Watir is an open-source, cross-platform web application performance testing tool. It uses Ruby libraries for web browsers automation. It is one of the best open source test automation tools that interacts with a browser just like a human being, so it clicks links, filling out forms, and validating text.
Capybara is a tool that enables you to test web applications by simulating the interaction of real users with your app. It does not need setup for rack and rails application. Test-link is the most widely used web-based open-source test management tool. Desktop App Automation Testing You can leverage automated testing to ensure new code does not break old code. Automation Testing Tools. Winium Winium. Test Automation Objectives. Increase confidence in software quality.
Earlier time to market.
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