Is there Anyone who Successfully Implement UI Test

Question

I am looking for an Automated UI test framework/ software tool. In the past I have been using TestComplete, and although it's a good piece of software, but the concept of GUI test automation was deemed to be sufficiently difficult that I wrote a few posts to complain about it.

One of the problems with third party test automation tool is that you have to learn new language in order to be productive on it, not to mention that the tooling support is poor. I am now planning to look into Microsoft UI Automation that comes with .Net 3.0 and the White Framework. But before I do that, I want to know what's the outcome there.

Anyone has any experience to share on this? Have you create a sustainable and successful test suite using UI automation on your application?

Edit: This seems like a very hard question. I would setup bounty for this if I don't receive any answers within these few days.

Answer 1

We use the White test framework here with great results.

The framework uses win32 messaging to find the controls and interact with them. It's fairly slow on large forms with a lot of controls however, that's the only drawback I've encountered. We automate the test running using buildbot and nunit-console too.