automatic test of GUI running on Windows, Solaris or Linux

[Mick]

FYI:
The Testing Forum is there to "test" posts :) I've moved this to the General Developer forum.

[danne99se]

Im looking for a tool that can help me to perform an automatic test of a GUI. I need a tool that can use the mouse and the keyboard. Basically some tool that can record macros. I have found one for Windows that works quite ok but not perfect. It is called SmartQA 2.1. The problem with the tool is that sometimes the GUI Im testing is very slow and then this test tool tries to click on buttons that havent appeared yet.

http://www.smartutils.com/cgi-bin/download_sqa.cgi

But the biggest problem I have is that in the GUI Im testing things are not in the same place always. The GUI Im testing is a Management client for a Telecom node. In some cases when we reconfigure the node some things jump around in the Management Client. This is normal behaviour so the tool that I use must in some way be able to handle this and recogize where in the GUI it shall click.

E.g. in one place there are 3 lines with different options. This is how it can look sometimes.

1. Install
2. Modify
3. Read

The next time it could look like this.

1. Modify
2. Install
3. Read

Anyone of you that know of a tool that can analyse snapshots to decide where to click in the GUI.

And I would also prefer if the tool runs on Linux or Solaris.

Thanks a lot for your help!

BR
Daniel

[danne99se]

FYI:
The Testing Forum is there to "test" posts :) I've moved this to the General Developer forum.

Ok, thanks for moving my thread! :)