A tool based approach for automation of GUI applications

As the size and complexity of software is continually growing, manual testing becomes very difficult and tedious task. Also as the computer systems are significant to our society in every daily life and are performing an increasing number of critical tasks, so more work in software testing and analysis has become of great importance. The software applications once developed need to be maintained and tested as they undergo regular or frequent modifications. Automation of software testing and tool support for testing, therefore, has been emerging as a very important technology to quality assurance of present software industry. The proposed paper provides view of a new approach to automate the software testing process using Coded UI (User Interface) tool. Automation of the test plays a significant role in testing activity, as it saves time and provides better utilization of resources. The test automation has many situations to deal such as mapping of user specifications to identification of the test cases, test case generation, maintenance of test cases and test scripts.