In the context of UI testing of windows based application, White is well known and free framework.

In the visual studio 2015 we can install White with following nuget command.

Install-Package TestStack.White -Version 0.13.3

Once it is installed, we can use the ui finders and methods corresponding .Net Applications.

Let’s see how we can use the methods of TestStack.White to perform our Calculator testing.

Highlighted command Launches the application exe just like we do from run.

App.GetWindow is the method to get the parent window and it is start point of the whole testing flow as we go through we use window.Find methods to find controls in the parent window.

Another highlighted line in the below image is WaitWhileBusy.

There are several methods to do the synchronization in the elements and the properties, which we will be discussing in detail.

White framework extensively uses the finders in the UIA interface of the Microsoft.

Let’s examine following function to get the calculator button by text.

(figure 2)

There are different search criteria’s to find the element in the window.

As looked highlighted above we are using control type to find collection of all buttons and filter them by the control text.

There are several control types TestStack.White supports. Following is snapshot of general .net controls.

We can also use one finder in conjunction with another finder with “AndBy” commands like below.

“Window.Get” will get exactly one UI element and if we want collection of elements we can use

“Window.GetMultiple”

Most of the times GetMultiple will be useful where we want to see what is the collection size, and look at all elements and filter them by our needs.

In the (figure 2) there is mention of ExtensionClass, it is implemented for getting objects with wait.

The regular Get Methods does not include synchronization, in the below you can see how we can get elements with wait.

Below is the example where we are checking for length of the Items and periodically checking if length is zero until timeout is reached. We can also include exception handling and return the proper exception if length is zero.

By using these finders created following functions for clicking buttons and entering text items, selecting listboxes etc. Once all methods are done, its just matter of calling them to execute the tests.

Following is the functions created for calculator functionalities diagram for VS.