Automated UI Testing - Part 1 - WatiN

A few months back I discovered a tool called WatiN. This is based on WatiR and is a web application testing tool for Dot Net developers. After doing a few little test applications i started to see the benefit of using this application in my development. The best thing i could see it could do for me was making sure my pre testing cycle smoke checks were all run and passing. This would save time in fixing little UI bugs spotted by QA testers.

For those who don't know what WatiN does then look at the following code:

[Test]
public void SearchForWatiNOnGoofle()
{
    using(IE browser = new IE("http://www.google.com"))
    {
        browser.TextField(Find.ByName("q")).TypeText("WatiN");
        browser.Button(Find.ByName("btnG")).Click();
        Assert.IsTrue(browser.ContainsText("WatiN"));
    }
}

Within the class add a reference to WatiN.Core.dll and Nutit.framework.dll and then run this little test app. What will happen is a new instance of IE will spin up [other browsers can be run if necessary using further references]. It will search teh page for the textbox with the name 'q' and enter the text 'WatiN'. It will then find the button called 'btnG' and click it.

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