What is GUI Testing?
Soon after the replacement of command line interface by GUI, developers started to face drawbacks. It also turns out that experience of using a graphical front-end which is depending on the device’s screen dimension, operating system, browser choice .
By determining the various test cases,a developer can determine if a system works according to business requirements. The following are the list of elements that are normally assessed during the GUI testing sessions.
Menu bars, Dialog box, Text box, bars, Tables, List Boxes, Check boxes, Buttons.
Who needs this GUI testing?
Most of the projects use the layered architecture approach. What a developer finds is a whole of data coverage and business component that can be used for a GUI. In the bottom layers of the architecture work in cases where the GUI interface is not set correctly user may not be able to perform any action on the website.
GUI Automation Testing Tools:
We have a advanced testing market which is positive response towards the growing trend of automated testing by pushing out the automated GUI testing tools that are designed to help developers write scripts and conduct sprints. Below is one of the tool:
- AutoIT
AutoIt is considered to be scripting language environment. The syntax of AutoIt had a efficient, with many variables, operations, functions and also has programming logic. Here the from the program, tester creates strong and powerful standalone .exe programs for GUI software testing. AutoIT has efficient in terms of its community-there’s a forum with the thousands of active user’s and also help desk. Testers are improving the functionality of the program-we can upload the plugins and also packages.
How to setup AutoIt?
- Type in the URL download AutoIT.
Click on the download button. We will able to download the complete AutoIt package.
- After download we see the first screen with the further procedure button Next.
Click the next button and we can see the license agreement and continue the process. We have to select the option for 64 bit configuration. Then click on the Run the script.
- then click the install button.
We see the install location
As we click finish. The package will be setup in the start button. Different components will be present in the start button.
How to use it in Selenium?
AutoIT editor and how to find element on file uploader window through AUTOIT element identifier and also used to write the script on AutoIT editor using 3 methods.
Consider an example where we will use monster.com to upload a resume.
When we click choose file button from the write to us page we need to call why we are using AUTOIT? Selenium is the open source tool that may be designed to automate web based applications on different browsers but handle window GUI and non HTML popups in applications. Auto IT in selenium needs as the window based activity may not be managed by selenium.
To upload a file in selenium web driver using AutoIT. We may need three tools:
- Selenium webDriver
- AutoIT editor and element identifier
- The window that we want to automate
The features of AUTOIT are
- Easy to learn syntax- AutoIT uses a very simple syntax for its scripting language which is easily learnt and implemented for automation of any process.
2.Record and playback- AutoIT will be even record and generate a script on its own for any specific processes that is required to be automated, there are same script without modification that can be used to execute and play the recorded process as per needed.
3. The interaction with standard windows controls- AutoIT that may communicate easily for standard windows controls and other GUIs not having any object identification problem. It will identify a particular control with the help of the control ID, class name, title, position.
4. The graphical user interface- There are many GUIs that can be provided to a different processes, when it is required while automating a specific task by using AutoIT. There will be many inbuilt functions under ‘GUI control create’ for different GUIs which can be incorporated. Each to separate GUI functions has different syntax following which can be generate different GUIs like the input box, label, browser, window etc.
Questions:
1. What is AUTOIT?
2. What are the features AUTOIT?
