Category talk:Graphical user interface testing

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This should probably be renamed Category:Application automation or Category:Software automation. Usually "GUI automation" tools are thought of as distinct from "web-app automation" tools, since one is implemented as a browser plugin or browser wrapper, while the other uses black magic on the UI subsystem of the OS. From an automation-script-writer standpoint, the techniques for automating one vs another are very different (with web apps, you have DOM... with GUIs, things are very much less standardized). But this category somehow lumps web automation tools in with GUI automation tools.

Furthermore, there are [tiny number of] application-automation tools that don't work with GUIs at all; Expect is the clearest example. --Hirsutism (talk) 13:22, 4 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I tend to agree, though the above suggestions aren't so good, in that they're too broad. I'd suggest "User Interface Automation". I disagree with the above distinction made regarding web interface automation. If the automation is implemented by a browser plug-in rather than a user-level process, big deal. That's too fine a hair to split. JMHO. 68.227.208.105 (talk) 15:07, 31 July 2010 (UTC)