Design and Architecture for Moonlight Web Applications Test Automation

Abstract

The main objectives of Test Automation are minimizing cost, time and man power. Initially web pages are developed by HTML pages. But now web applications are developed by new technologies like Moonlight, Silverlight, JAVAFX, FLEX, etc. Accessing and automating of Silverlight and moonlight controls are not so easy because of their security and technology. The manually testing of complex software becomes more difficult and challenging task. Moonlight is a new Micro Soft .NET technology to develop rich interactive and attractive Internet web applications with the collaboration of Novel Corporation with Linux support. Testing these kinds of applications are not so easy, especially the User interface test automation is very difficult for these kinds of web applications.  In this paper we propose a framework for moonlight web applications test automation. It has the capability to decrease the overall cost of testing and improve software quality, but most testing organizations have not been able to achieve the full potential of test automation. Sometimes test automation programs run into a number of common pitfalls because of its design and architecture failure. In this paper we first discussed some of the key benefits of software test automation, and then examine the most common techniques used to implement software test automation of Moonlight web applications Test Automation and their potentials. Finally, The Architecture design and implementation of Test Automation for Moonlight web applications.