Accelerate Software Quality and Delivery with Desktop Application Testing
Desktop application testing with Test Studio helps you accelerate application delivery by covering all your desktop testing needs across a wide range of technologies and frameworks.
Best-in-class test recorder enhanced with advanced test execution and scheduling capabilities
Support for legacy and modern technologies, including Open Source and third-party components
Industry-leading functional testing feature set backed by API testing at no extra cost
Desktop testing is a testing practice that ensures desktop applications install, run and uninstall as expected, meeting a set of functional requirements. Due to the nature of desktop applications, which often contain legacy code, desktop testing involves
a significant amount of regression tests that should be automated to meet Agile, efficiency and quality standards:
Consistent user interface
Defect-free Windows workflows
Seamless business transactions
Desktop Application Testing with Test Studio
Eliminate testing complexity and tool fragmentation with the desktop test automation feature set in Test Studio. It gives you all the essentials to test desktop Windows-based applications, including test recording and execution, Element Repository, Test
Lists and Test Studio’s renowned AI-inspired element identification logic.
Standardized approach across web and desktop
Broad desktop technology and framework support
Low-code desktop testing IDE plus out-of-the-box Visual Studio integration
What You Get at a Glance
Unlimited desktop tests for any Windows-based desktop app and beyond
Flexible pricing and licensing options without hidden costs
All-in-one offering, including desktop and web testing, backed up by RESTful API and load testing
Support of commercial developer tools, such as DevExpress, Infragistics and Syncfusion
The easiest Record & Playback interface in the industry, now applicable across web and desktop
Access to shared desktop test projects for QAs and Devs through built-in Visual Studio integration
Effortlessly record test steps with highly intuitive
point-and-click functionality—without writing a single line of
code. Modify recorded test scripts to cover hard-to-automate
scenarios or special desktop test needs.
Take advantage of a rich UI object model, covering the entire
range of elements in the UI. Easily identify third-party desktop
UI controls and build quick action and verification steps to
automate all elements of the desktop component.
Solve complex desktop test scenarios right inside Visual Studio.
The integrated Visual Studio plugin allows both QAs and developers
to work together within the same project, where they keep track of
everyone’s work while eliminating waste and redundancies.
Monitor desktop test stability without additional configuration.
The Step Failure Details module gives you all the details about
failed test steps along with intelligent suggestions on how to fix
the most common failures.
Address complex test scenarios by converting recorded steps into
code and creating custom-coded functions. The Test Studio Code
Editor allows you to develop coded tests using C# or VB.NET.
The One Automation Testing Tool to Cover All Your Bases and Beyond
Test Studio gives you all the functional testing tools and techniques that you need to prove your application meets user or business expectations.
Telerik Test Studio enables our quality assurance team to quickly identify potential bugs pre-release within the DevOps pipeline. We have been able to scale and accelerate delivery of new features while reducing our manual testing on existing functionality. The features are deep, yet easy to use. The consistent addition of new and improved features helps improve the efficiency of our testing efforts.
Mike Goodwin
Director of Technical Support and Quality Assurance, Kiddie Academy®
Headless execution allows us to greatly reduce the overall time needed to complete a test cycle. This method also allows us to integrate Test Studio into our CI pipeline so we can run any portion of the test plan at the time of merge and/or deployment.
Zachary Hansen
Chief Technology Officer, Angus Energy
Test Studio is a fantastic platform for anyone who's new to automated testing because it's got a very intuitive UI, but also for somebody who's highly skilled as they can immediately pick up on what Test Studio can do and make very effective use of the tool.
Pete O'Grady
QA Manager, RevSpring
The best thing about Test Studio is easy ramp up which enables anybody to start creating tests within a few days. The centralized element repository is very comfortable, bringing down test maintenance costs.
Himanshu Saraowgi
QA Engineer, Pegasystems
Test Studio integrated seamlessly into our automated software testing needs. Its ease-of-use is unbelievable. It does all the heavy lifting allowing the developer to focus on more in-depth testing.
Gregory Hargrove
Software Developer, Correct Care Solutions
After using the trial for a week we increased our automated testing from 5% to 30%. Test Studio was so easy to incorporate into our existing testing environment! Tests are stable and easy to run and understand.
Mark Judson
Software Developer, EBSCO Industries Inc.
Testing Solutions
Modern applications are infinitely complex. With Test Studio you can go deeper in your testing to cover all your bases—test the behavior, responsiveness and performance of your web and WPF applications.
Maximize test coverage and reduce maintenance while continually improving quality. Test Studio automatically adjusts to app changes, eliminating debt and ensuring new levels of test stability.
Create complex load scenarios to inform critical decisions. Test Studio's load testing suite enables you to verify that your web app meets business needs for speed, performance, and user satisfaction.
Test Studio's API testing helps you verify the integrity and reliability of your APIs. Plug API testing into CI/CD to leverage the continuous testing approach along with agile development.
Bring UI test automation into your build process, enabling critical feedback earlier in the release cycle. Test Studio integrates with all popular CI/CD tools: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Jira, Bamboo and more.
Desktop applications are time-tested, business-critical applications that are difficult to rewrite and replace and most probably nowhere near the end of their life. Many organizations depend on mature Windows Forms or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
applications that have proved their reliability over the years and will continue to serve their users in the years to come.
Despite the rapid development of web and mobile technologies, there are business areas where desktop applications continuously perform better and more efficiently. Having a testing strategy in place that considers all aspects of a mature legacy desktop application, backed up by a testing platform that provides the required automation capabilities, is a critical requirement of any software delivery process.
Desktop applications are, for the most part, mature, which is why they are often considered legacy code. Yet, these applications need to have a modern look and feel, optimized performance, integration with the latest platform features as well as up-to-date business capabilities.
Desktop applications mostly depend on continuous maintenance, but it is critical to expand their functionality and add new features to ensure they are in line with the latest business standards. This blog post provides guidance on how to overcome complexity and burden when adding features to an existing app.
Testing early and often is an essential part of adding new features reliably without risking production defects. The purpose of automated regression testing is to re-execute all regression tests that are needed to prove existing functionality still behaves the same way it did before the change. The selection of tools and techniques to test Windows / desktop apps and making sure mission-critical business workflows operate according to expectations is what will make the difference in terms of ROI, test coverage, maintenance cost, operational efficiency and effectiveness.
Desktop applications are software programs that run locally on a desktop (Windows) operating system and can be accessed on personal or remote machines. Web apps are hosted on a remote server and run in a web browser, allowing users to access the application
from anywhere through an internet connection. This leads to several differences in the tools and techniques required to test a desktop vs. web app:
Testing environment setup: In desktop testing, the number of clients and servers is specified, while for web apps it is critical to test the application’s behavior, performance and cross-browser-compatibility under different operating systems. This requires the use of remote machines or servers to extend coverage and be able to perform cross-browser testing.
Test results monitoring: Desktop vs. web application testing implies different test monitoring complexity. In web testing, it is critical to monitor how your web tests perform across a variety of browsers, browser versions, mobile
devices, form factors, etc., while in desktop testing you only need visibility into how the app behaves under a specific operating system when used by a single user or a limited number of users.
Security and access authentication: Desktop applications run as part of closed and secured (intranet) environments. Web applications are exposed to higher security risks, which requires the use of various authentication methods and
protocols. Therefore, an important aspect of end-to-end web testing is to test authentication methods at scale and make sure that there are no blockers for users to access the application. Login and authentication are business-critical workflows
that should be tested properly and sufficiently as part of web regression test suites.
Test Studio offers support for a wide range of .NET desktop technologies and beyond, covering modern and legacy application testing needs. The record and playback features are available for Microsoft's entire Windows stack, including WinForms, WPF, WinUI, Win32, UWP and .NET MAUI for Desktop. Test Studio can also be used to automate Electron apps as well as legacy software, built with Delphi. Third-party commercial UI component libraries, such as DevExpress, Infragistics and Syncfusion as well as custom controls, can be automated with Test Studio as long as these components are developed on top of the above-mentioned desktop technologies and frameworks, supported by Test Studio.
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