Graphical User Interfaces will never lose their importance since most software is - at some end - supposed to be used by humans. Automating interactions with GUI's is a crucial activity in many modern software engineering processes to conduct different types of UI-testing or to simply automate a large number of recurring UI-tasks, such as inputting data or checking provided data.
The importance of UI Automation is reflected by having numerous free and open-source frameworks as well as many proprietary products:
- Microsoft UI Automation Framework
- Appium / Selenium
- Teststack White
- TestComplete
- ...
Here a more comprehensive list can be found.
UI Automation and testing is a highly layer-rich and broad field, which heavily relies on the experience of developers working there. A forum, to make this experience visible is highly appreciated.
That's why I would recommend to open a dedicated StackExchange site dealing with the topic of UI Automation and UI Testing.
What is your opinion about that?
