Silverlight testing: Watin vs Selenium comparison

Question

I was wondering how well these web test frameworks (Watin and Selenium) work for Silverlight UI testing.

Have anyone tried it on a project? Are Watin or Selenium well suited for Silverlight?.

Answer 1

I have used WebAii to hook into Silverlight. You can create NUnit/MSTest tests to drive them. I did find a number of bugs in it but they have released a number of versions since so assume they have been fixed.

Answer 2

I can't talk to Watin or Selenium with Silverlight, but I have played with White, which is a layer on top of the MS Automation Framework, and I have liked what I have seen thus far:

I should also add that we defer the majority of our UI behavior testing to unit tests using the MVVM pattern. It doesn't test EVERYTHING, but it gets us 95% of the way there.

Functional testing frameworks like Watin/Selenium/White should be used in conjunction to unit tests.

Answer 3

Take a look at this: http://www.artoftest.com/community/blogs/09-05-14/Automating_Real_World_Silverlight_Apps.aspx

Answer 4

I've not had the need to use it myself, but I have noticed that there is a Silverlight Selenium project 'Silvernium', which might be of interest to you. http://code.google.com/p/silverlight-selenium/

Answer 5

What about the Silverlight Unit Test Framework included in the Silverlight Toolkit?

Here's Scott Gu's intro

Not sure if this suits your needs, but I always like to check out the solution from the source itself!