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Application Development guidelines for Automated testing

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by satish.bhagwat

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Hello:

We are developing a web-based application(product) thats likely to be released in 3 to 6 months. We are planning to test it using some automated testing tool for functional testing.

I wish to know, if there are any specific coding care needs to be taken care while developing the application that we wish to test using Automated testing tools.

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by tony hopkinson

is standardised UI's.

I've dome more in rich GUIs, things like three different third party grid components will hurt you.

For developing the testing scripts you'll want to reuse lumps of it, subtle differences will make this much harder.

Also I'd look at unit testing, with known input, you should be able to request a web page and then compare it to a test template.

Automation testers are very valuable , but they are expensive, and the scripts to run them very fragile, so maintenance intensive as you enhance the functionality.

Try to get rid of as much basic stuff as you can before you go near them.

by onbliss

I always thought Microsoft provided weak grid components straight out of the box. In the pre-.Net days, had to rely on third-party components to get what we wanted.

Couple of years back, we were developing a windows forms VB.net application, and we wanted to have an image column. It was easy in the ASP.net world, but unfortunately not that easy in Forms world. We did some build or buy analysis and decided to just inherit and create a new class that would suit our needs.

by tony hopkinson

It's easy in Delphi. I've always seen 3rd party component suites as a net loss. All the time you save not developing the functionality you lose bug fixing and trying to shoe horn the damn things in, not to mention how bloated they are.

One of my favourites was a calendar component, "a must have" in a suite, ?300 a pop with the source. The latter was lucky when we started selecting year from the built in drop down menu, and it came back with an exception

"199&9" is not an integer.
:D

VBChart and mshflexgrid, bleeding horrible things, designed and coded by muppets they were.

by anaris

To use efficiently automated functionnal testing for more than simple capture/replay use alt and id attribut for HTML tags singnificant for the test:
-element used for controle point (text, picture, ... used to identify a result or a state)
-element used for data entry (textfield, button, list...)

Using id and alt as reference lessen the impact of layout changes on the automated test execution.

by ftorres

1-The main rule is to make sure that during the development process every important HTML tag have a unique attribute id or name in the page.

2-Automation testers should be able to ask a developer to add a unique id or an hidden field containing specific information to help the testing. For example every time a page return a grid the following html tag should be generated :

This tag can be easily read by the testing program.

3-An automation tool that use a real:
- programming language
- Environment
- Debugger
- Support any source control

For example, InCisif.net is an automation tool designed to implement client-side functional testing of web applications under Internet Explorer 6.x or 7.x, using the C#
or VB.NET language with Visual Studio 2003, 2005 or express editions.

by sridhar

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by jk_irl

I used to automate test development for Web apps. Look at Watij or Selenium.

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