New user; question about suitability to UI manipulation

[ssheldon]

Hi all,

I am involved in testing a commercial software product.  One of the things I would like to focus on is performance testing of the UI.  For example, I would like to measure how long it takes a dialog to appear when a button is clicked.  This is a legacy product, so it is not possible to introduce timers in the code of the product itself.  Instead, I want to do this through an external application that perhaps I could write using AutoIt.

Is this sort of thing possible with AutoIt?

Thanks,

Steve

[JLogan3o13]

@ssheldon yes, you can do such testing with AutoIt. You can (on most apps) automate interaction with the button, then create a loop looking for the appearance of the dialog box, and measure the time between. You might start reading in the help file under the Control* commands, to get an idea of some examples of manipulating GUI apps.

Edited May 30, 2018 by JLogan3o13

[seandisanti]

You can definitely do this, as JLogan said, have a look at the control functions in the help file, as well as _Timer_Init, _Timer_Diff, WinWait, WinWaitActive functions

[junkew]

Look at event examples in iuiautomation examples thread which can act on open close evevts of hwnd windows.