Online Test Automation for new Generation of Silverlight Web Applications

New Interactive, attractive and device independent web application’s Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) are developed by new technologies like Silverlight and Moonlight. Silverlight is Microsoft's cross platform runtime and development technology for running Web based multimedia applications in windows platform. Moonlight is an open-source implementation of the Silverlight development platform for Linux and other operating systems. Manufacturing Execution systems (MES) is a framework which tries to address the problems in integration, deployment, Consistent GUI, etc. that exists in present manufacturing applications. Next generation Visualization technologies for the Manufacturing Execution systems will improve consistency, productivity and usability of the systems. Silverlight is one of the main UI technologies that are used in MES Framework. Testing of UI is always challenging and has been mostly manual till now. In the next generation of MES applications the testing of GUI needs to be automated as it will save lot of man-hours that is lost in manual testing also it will catch the defects early on in the cycle. GUI testing is a commonly known form of Usability Testing of software or website. It is also known as User Interface Testing. GUI testing is a performance related assessment of a software or website in terms of ease of use, versatility, friendliness with focus on the target audience, visual impact and the approach and time taken to progress into the specific purpose. Improving the quality of software is the main goal of UI Test Automation. Reducing testing time and cost are the goals of UI Test Automation. Reducing manual power is also one of the major objectives of UI Test Automation.