How will we go about automating testing of a SilverLight application?

I understand your worry. Right now, it's pretty much untestable from the traditional out-of-proc UI testing perspective. I'm a Test Architect at Microsoft, and I'm struggling with the same issue. We urged the Silverlight team to implement Accessibility for this release, but there just wasn't time. I can assure you that Silverlight will support MSAA and/or Windows UI Automation on Windows, and Silverlight intends to support the Mac AXAPI on the Mac. Thus, any existing test tools that support driving UI through Accessibility will be fully enabled to automate Silverlight applications in a future release.

For now, you pretty much would need to do some in-proc testing of your application using the object model.

Thanks!

Bri

BrianMcMaster at 2007-9-28 >

Thanks!

Evan

EvanL at 2007-9-28 >

At InCisif Software, we also plan to look at SilverLight and hopefully add support for SilverLight in the future to our .NET web functional testing tool InCisif.net.

Check out our web site in September 2007, we should have a first prototype, though we may have to wait for the final release of Silver Light 1.1 before committing to a solution.

Frederic Torres
www.InCisif.net
Web Testing with C# or VB.NET

FredericTorres at 2007-9-28 >