Bao Lei gave a nice writeup of Hulu’s GSAutomation test runner for UI Automation. Rather than use the UI Automation JavaScript API itself to write tests they developed a domain language, of sorts, that expresses test steps as a series of arrays. The example looks something like this:
task = [
[Tap, "Button"],
[Check, "Text I'm expecting", "Text I'm expecting from another label"],
]
Yes, this can lead to oversimplified test steps and you’re leaving behind a lot
of the raw power of looking up and interacting with UIAElement objects
directly, but I think it’s an interesting technique and could cover a lot of
common test cases.
And, hey, it kinda reminds me of Lisp. :)
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