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I was primarily a SilkTest expert for many years. It had (and still has) a cleaner object-oriented interface to GUI objects than its competition. But it suffers from having a vendorscript. Since then i've used lots of tools, including practically all of the commercial GUI tools and many open source ones. I've also had a chance to do direct COM testing and this is one of the reason's why i am so interested in building support for driving the COM interface to IE. I am also interesting in the COM lookalike for Mozilla [MozAxc]. I teach a one-day class with BrianMarick (Scripting101Class) where we teach people Ruby and the ClIEController, and how to use them to test a test application. In the past year (2003), i've had a chance to write application test scripts (using xUnit) in Perl, Visual Basic, Python, and Ruby, and each has reinforced my understanding just how fine Ruby truly is. I think that the number one problem with the ClIEController is that it needs tests. We need test web applications with test suites as regression tests for IE Controller. We also need to figure out how to create mock web applications, because of the high overhead of installing them. It would be interesting if we could start by using TimeClock (Brian's baby), first as a sample web application, and then start refactoring it into a mock web app framework. |
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