Windows Forms Test Automation

Question

We are looking for a way to automate windows forms for acceptance testing. Our requirements are:

• Must be usable by non-developers (ie: people with no development environment installed)
• Must have a recorder
• Must support third-party controls
• Must have basic functionality (allow clicking on buttons, inputing text, validating results, accros multiple windows if necessary)

Basically, something like Selenium, but for windows forms.

Answer 1

For what it's worth, I've been testing for 15 years, and to this day have never seen ROI on tests created in this fashion. Automated testing, is obviously a good thing, but if you are just taking test cases that should be manual test cases and having minimum wage workers "automate" them, you will almost always end up with a mass of unmaintainable fragile tests that save no time in the end and get thrown out quickly.

The FitNesse suggestion from paiNie is a great suggestion.

Answer 2

Must be usable by non-developers

Any not-web test automation tool will need either dev`s well-known ide (Eclipse etc.) or test tool ide. SilkTest, TestComplete etc. will also make u to write some code.

U can separate work between devs and testers using tool for creating "executable requirements" like "Fitnesse" or Concordion