This is a little automation framework with a number of goals:

• To let me learn how to do .NET UI Automation
• To fix a couple of things that White doesn’t do yet
• To automate scenarios as fast as possible
• To provide examples that anyone else can look at, if you want to do the same thing.

The project is written in C#, and is exclusively focused on WPF Windows GUIs. Currently WiPFlash can:

• Launch or reuse an existing application or window
• Enter text in TextBox, RichTextBox, and editable ComboBox
• Select values and retrieve selection in ListBox or ComboBox
• Retrieve values from RichTextBox (and its children), TextBox, TextBlock, editable ComboBox
• Click buttons.

It also provides an example of a Prism application, complete with MVVM paradigm, command binding, dependency injection using Unity, etc.

Please feel free to try it out and add any requests and/or issues, bearing in mind that the purpose of the framework is not to replace White. For instance, I have no plans at this time to support drag-and-drop or mouse and keyboard input, nor am I going to respond to bugs with WiPFlash not working on WinForms, SWT, etc.

If you’re looking for something similar for Java and Swing, check out my other automation framework, Tyburn.

• Slow mode now added, so you can use it to show your scenarios being run (great for BDD presentations or working out what’s actually causing that bug)
• The Ascii Grid DSL converter which I’ve used for Tetris and the Game of Life for years has been added
• You can now specify the timeout for finding an open window
• You can ask the control if it’s got the window open (makes it easier to close all windows in a tear-down).

Tyburn is a fast, minimal, extensible Java Swing harness that was originally part of JBehave 1.0. You can download it here and use it like this:


WindowControl control = new WindowControl("my.named.frame");
control.clickButton("a.button");
control.enterText("a.textfield", "Text1");