Enterprise development teams today rely on performing quality assurance testing across a wide range of IT and application environments to ensure their applications are designed and optimized for success. While automated testing tools addressing various stages of the application development lifecycle have been readily available in the past, developers building out the presentation layer or the user interface have not been able to take advantage of this high performance testing functionality.

Testing the presentation layer, which is often built with various plug-in tools that deliver essential functionality driving the application, has been painful due to the limited knowledge of the tool's object model by the automated testing tools. This scenario has often left developers either taking on the tedious task of writing custom code to test their applications or even not testing the presentation layer at all.

Thus the most important part of an application, the presentation layer, is left without regression testing or even basic user interface testing, leading to businesses taking the risk that their applications might fail.

The Solution

A true innovation in User Interface testing, our TestAdvantage® for Windows Forms products are a collection of custom libraries built for use within an automated testing environment. It enables automated testing of the presentation layer within your preferred testing IDE, allowing quality assurance teams to fully regression test Windows Forms applications with user interfaces developed using NetAdvantage® for Windows Forms. With these custom libraries, testers can quickly record and replay script commands for applications having a fully-featured user interface instead of using generic mouse coordinates to locate and act upon UI controls. Exceptionally fast playback means more test scripts run within a given amount of time, enabling better test coverage of applications and ultimately higher quality software.

Benefits of TestAdvantage

• Gain better coverage and a higher quality product through test automation.
• Reduce the need for and cost of manual testing with an automated testing process that requires fewer personnel.
• Effectively institute data-driven testing of NetAdvantage for Windows Forms powered applications.
• Increase productivity with the time savings as the testing stage finishes faster.

Learn More

TestAdvantage for Windows Forms is available for either HP® QuickTest Professional™ software or the IBM® Rational® Functional Tester, depending upon the automated test environment you have chosen for your QA team.