Automation of Win32 apps

[comoteguste]

Hi all, I'm new in Testlink, and I am researching ways to automate testing of Win32 applications (developed with Delphi).

I found information in this forum about creating text files that are monitored by external applications that run scripts.

I would like to help me about where to begin to investigate this issue and especially if someone uses TestComplete to automate test cases invoked from Testlink.

Thank you very much!!

[jack090]

I'm currently working on a project internally for my company that involves the API integration of testlink.

The basic gist is that it creates an xml file that has all the information needed to run:
<TestPlanID>2</TestPlanID>
<TestCaseID>16</TestCaseID>
<BuildID>2</BuildID>
<UserID>1</UserID>
It then is read by my program and then it fires off the call to my Selenium server to run the automation. My selenium IDE is written in C# (so I write my automation scripts in C#) and at the end will update testlink with the results using the API. I've got 95% of this working (mainly it's finished and all works but I'm adding better logging and error checking). I got the green light this week to finish it up, so I'll contribute a forum post/ writeup on mantis etc... once finished.

[comoteguste]

Actually my problem is with desktop applications (Win32), and Selenium is used to automate web applications (I think).

Anyway I think is a great contribution will be valued by the community.

We are currently working with TestComplete Command Line by calling the various projects, but we found a practical way to run these tests from Testlink.

[jack090]

Heya, if you wanted to use something beside selenium that's certainly possible. I have a library I created and in addition a autoit library that can control win32 programs. The class I made can control silverlight / any windows program (32/64) / ASP / and WPF applications. This would be easy to modify but it requires programming knowledge to actually implement them. If you did have the Visual Studio and decent C# knowledge you could automate just about anything. At my previous employer I had this setup as an integration test after every build and would update TFS with build quality. If your interested let me know and I could put together some documentation on it.

[aostad]

Could you please provide some hint/documents for integrating Testlink with TFS/VSTS.

Thanks.