UI Test Automation Under Windows
Today I started working on an MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility)-based .NET component to drive Windows UI with the aim of using it to do automated testing (among other things). After playing around with a few different approches I have settled on this one:
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It turns out that the needs of people making accessibility aids and the needs of people trying to implement automated testing tools are quite similar so this technology can be used to implement automated UI testing on Windows.
If you want to explore these two UI technologies there are tools that you can use to browse them. On the Win32 side you can use Spy++ (this tool ships with Visual Studio). The MSAA hierarchy can be looked at using the MSAA tools (available here).
More on my UI navigation approach next time...
[ronpih I guess...]
