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Writing your first AutAT test

Here we will show a step-by-step guide to create a test in AutAT.

First open the AutAT perspective:

Window -> Open perspectice -> Other... -> AutAT

The AutAT perspective is shown in the next figure.

Create a New AutAT Project by right-clicking in the navigator view to the left in the perspective and select:

New -> AutAT -> New AutAT Project

In the wizard that opens, provide a name and a Base URL, e.g:

A new project will appear in the navigator view, as shown in the next figure.

The "tests" folder will the tests for the web application.

Create a New Test by right-clicking on the tests-folder and selecting:

New -> Other... -> AutAT -> New AutAT-test

Choose a file name, a name for the test and a description and click Next. E.g:

Now you must provide a Start Point for the test. Click Add startpoint to add one, e.g:

An empty test will appear in the Editor window, as shown in the next figure. You can now add pages, checks and transitions to write a test of a web application.

To add an element to the test, select the appropriate field in the palette to the left in the editor window.

The following figure shows a sample test with a start page with text and links. The link "Register new artist" is pressed, and the next page has a form. This form is filled out with the specified values, and the title of the next page is checked to contain "Artist registred":

To run tests directly in the Graphical test editor, right click anywhere in the editor and select RunTest. To reset the coloured test elements, select ResetTest. The elements that have passed their tests will be coloured green. The ones that fail will be coloured red.

To export the test, do the following in the Eclipse navigator view (not shown above): Right click on your test-file (.aat extension), and select e.g. AutAT -> Create Watir tests (the other supported frameworks will also appear).

The generated tests will be placed in the "generated" directory.