GUI automation tool (windows)

[Robert Kern]

On 2010-08-10 21:57 , Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message
> <abe9b308-db83-4ca8-a71a-12d2025a7615 at i31g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, Alex
> Barna wrote:
>
>> On Aug 10, 10:05 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
>>
>>> Can’t understand the point to it. “GUI automation” is a contradiction in
>>> terms, because a GUI is designed for use by humans to do manual tasks,
>>> not ones that can be automated.
>>
>> Automating GUI is for testing.
>
> But the most egregious GUI problems are going to be with humans being unable
> to figure out how to do something, am I right?

Possibly, but it's not the *only* important problem. Automated GUI testing is 
usually a form of regression testing. You want to make sure that the behavior of 
parts of the GUI did not change when you made what should be unrelated 
modifications to the code.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  an underlying truth."
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