[TIP] Tools for Windows GUI testing ?

[Atul Varma]

What GUI framework does your messaging application use?  This will
impact how accessible it is from the various GUI automation tools.

You may want to take a look at pyAA if you haven't already, which is a
Python wrapper around Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA):

  http://www.cs.unc.edu/~parente/tech/tr09.shtml

Also do a Google search for "Microsoft Active Accessibility SDK",
which will get you a few tools like the Accessible Explorer; these
will let you easily see how well your application currently supports
AA.

A nice side benefit of using MSAA for GUI automation--and an incentive
for making your application support MSAA if it doesn't already--is
that it also guarantees that your application will be usable by
accessibility aids such as screen readers.

Hope this helps.

- Atul

On 6/4/07, Janne Härkönen <janne.t.harkonen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am automating tests for a messaging application which uses Skype as one of it's possible
> frontends. I have tried to use watsup (http://www.tizmoi.net/watsup/intro.html ) and
> pywinauto (http://www.openqa.org/pywinauto/) as possible tools.
>
> Pywinauto was not able to find the Skype client at all. (Or I just can't use it properly...).
>
> With watsup, I was able to find the Skype client window, and even use some of the components.
> However, watsup does not support manipulating the tab control, which is central part of the client.
>
> Has anyone used some other python tools to automate Windows GUI testing, or does someone have
> specific experience of automating the Skype client?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
>
> Janne Härkönen
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