WPF Testing

TestComplete offers superior support for WPF applications and automates various testing types and scenarios, from front-end UI testing to back-end data validation. Equally suitable for testers of all skill levels, TestComplete offers script-free keyword-driven tests and capture-playback tools for novice testers and provides multiple scripting languages (VBScript, JScript and others) and powerful tools for expert test engineers. Built-in checkpoints, a rich function library and a versatile IDE aid in creating, debugging, managing and running automated WPF tests and analyzing test results - Microsoft Visual Studio and source control integration are also supported — these are only a few of TestComplete’s automated testing features and capabilities designed to boost QA productivity and improve WPF testing. The only tool of its kind capable to “automate the non automatable”, TestComplete gives testers total power and control over the automated testing process, so that they can test WPF applications more effectively, in less time and at lower costs.

TestComplete offers rich support for WPF (XAML) controls and robust automated UI testing of WPF applications. TestComplete’s high-level test actions, such as item selection or cell data input, are object-aware rather than coordinate-aware and thus are more stable and resistant to the UI changes when performing WPF testing. Flexible object mapping schemes allow testers to map custom or derived WPF controls to standard types to simplify UI manipulations. Support for custom WPF controls can also be added using the TestComplete SDK.

TestComplete can dig deeper into applications like no other automated testing tool can. Without any changes in the WPF application, TestComplete provides testers with access to all of its internal objects and their properties, fields and methods for WPF testing. This allows testers to go beyond simple record-playback and test WPF applications behind the UI — obtain data directly from WPF objects, write the modified data back to objects, call the objects’ native methods — and verify even the application’s hidden functionality.

TestComplete gives testers full access to the .NET API — both intrinsic .NET Framework classes and those defined in the WPF application and in arbitrary .NET assemblies. This way, testers create even more powerful WPF tests by extending them with .NET routines and classes. This also enables testers to call their custom .NET test utilities from TestComplete automated tests and even test .NET class interfaces while performing WPF Testing.

TestComplete's support for the Microsoft UI Automation technology helps you test the application’s accessibility as well as automating UI manipulations. Testers can use properties and methods exposed by UI Automation providers to obtain various information about the application’s UI elements and simulate any possible user interaction during WPF Testing.