UI Test Automation with Project White

Posted by Jeremy Miller on February 9, 2008

I don’t know many details right now, but ThoughtWorks just released something called Project White as a new toolkit for test automation of WinForms and WPF user interfaces.  It might be worth checking out.  It’s released as OSS under the Apache 2 license.

I’m happily doing automated testing of my new WinForms application, but I’ve purposely built that automated testing support in from the get go (I build a Window Driver into every screen and use some IoC magic).  I’ll write up my solution as part of Build your own CAB soon, but I think most people will prefer something like Project White instead.

About Jeremy Miller

Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap tool for Dependency Injection with .Net, StoryTeller for supercharged acceptance testing in .Net, and one of the principal developers behind FubuMVC. Jeremy's thoughts on all things software can be found at The Shade Tree Developer at http://codebetter.com/jeremymiller.
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  • http://activeengine.wordpress.com ActiveEngine Sensei

    Checking this out now – pre-req’ are .Net 3.0. If it pans out it could be promising …

  • http://blog.sidu.in Sidu

    We’ve been using it on .Net 3.0 projects for over 6 months now with a fair degree of success.

  • http://Blog.BenHall.me.uk Ben Hall

    Hi Jeremy,

    Thanks for the heads up, it’s something I’ve been looking into recently and it was really interesting.

    Blogged about my initial thoughts on the framework if your interested:
    http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2008/02/project-white-automated-ui-testing.html

    Ben

  • Adam

    Could you dig a little deeper on your Window Driver concept/technique?

  • Anton Valter

    Hello,
    Could you, please, tell me, what GUI(or nonGUI) Tests-Runner i must use to run White tests.
    I use NUnit to run nonGUI unit test. But,unfortunately, i can’t use it to run White tests.

    Thank.

  • Rohith

    Are there any forums where technical discussions happen with regards to White other than the discussion happening in Codeplex?

  • Darsan Reddy

    I just cannot find the start how to perform the automation using white.. Please help

  • http://www.bugtrap.co.uk Software tester

    Has anyone created any layer on the top of the White framework which would make it simpler too use ? 

  • Asudipto

    Has anyone created test automation around WPF Ribbon (.Net 4) using White?