Testing thick clients with selenium [ Was: announcement + schedule]

[Manish Chakravarty]

Hello Sanjeev,

(Changing the subject line)

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Sanjeev Kumar
<sanjeev.ku...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a question regarding Selenium . I have used selenium in my project
> but i am unable to automate in 2 cases :
>
> 1. For Active-x controls - Active -X controls works only in IE and I am not
> able to automate it.( I used selenium RC , Active-x does not work in Firefox
> or other browser except IE)

I dont think you can automate ActiveX using Selenium

>
> 2. Desktop application : not able to automate.

What technology does the desktop application use?
If it is a Swing and/or a SWT application, Twist will be able to help
( Twist uses Selenium, but can use other (open source) drivers like
SWTBot and Frankenstein )
Otherwise you're out of luck  :(

> Can I will be able to do the above with the help of webdriver.. any
> suggession ..

As the name suggests, WebDriver for automating web applications not
thick client ones :)

-- Manish

[sai]

Not sure if it is but are ActiveX controls accessibility aware? If
they are you can use White to automate them. We have tried this with
Silverlight controls and it seems to work (Although not for every kind
of control). You can check if the control is accessibility aware or
can use White to automate it by spying it with UI Spy

White can also be used for automating desktop apps... Check the app
with UI spy for confirmation

Regards,
Sai Venkat

On May 12, 4:34 pm, Manish Chakravarty <manishch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Sanjeev,
>
> (Changing the subject line)
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Sanjeev Kumar
>

[Girish pattana]

Hi all,
         I am new to selenium platform, can somebody explain me how do i test a field with multiple values, (Data driven testing), and how to handle the error and write it to a log file..can some body help me on this.

thanks,
 -Girish