VAASAN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU
UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
Degree Programme of Information Technology
ABSTRACT
Author Milosz Mazurkiewicz
Title GUI Test Automation with SWTBot.
Year 2010
Language English
Pages 50 + 3 Appendices
Name of Supervisor Dr Smail Menani (VAMK), Jakub Drzazga (NSN)
In this thesis the author presents theoretical background of GUI test automation as well
as technologies, tools and methodologies required to fully understand the test program
written in SWTBot. Practical part of the thesis was to implement a program testing File
Menu options of Pegasus RCP application developed in Nokia Siemens Networks.
Concluding this dissertation, in the author’s opinion test programs written using
SWTBot are relatively easy to read and intuitive for people familiar with basic concepts
of Eclipse RCP. Without any doubt SWTBot’s API is large enough to test effectively
such complex application as Pegasus RCP. The biggest problem could be lack of good
documentation and tutorials which makes it difficult to start with. The best and most up
to date is Javadoc that comes with SWTBot’s code. Therefore a developer which wants
to start writing SWTBot tests has to spend some time with it to get familiar with the API
experimenting with the code. Although SWTBot is not a commercial tool, the growing
community of testers and developers using it seems promising considering the need of
support. Despite of what is published on SWTBot’s home page, SWTBot lacks
a recorder which implicates that the tester has to be a programmer. As the analysis has
shown the automated tests execute over twenty times faster comparing with manual
tests.
Pieces of code presented in this document, instructions how to achieve tests
independence, error recovery, and test synchronization, together with big test program
implementation (APPENDIX 2) make up a great tutorial which will help developers
to get familiar with SWTBot’s capabilities. FileMenuTest.java consists of 30 test cases
and has almost 1500 lines of code. The author has made those tests compliant with all
the objectives for well-designed test cases. The program was integrated with the nightly
builds of CruiseControl, which means the author’s work is utilised on a daily basis.
Keywords SWTBot, software testing, GUI testing, test automation
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