Declarative automated test

摘要

Automated tests at the business level can be expensive to develop and maintain. One common approach is to have a domain expert instruct a QA developer to implement what she would do manually in the application. Though there exist record-replay tools specifically developed for this, these tend to scale poorly for more complicated test scenarios. We present a different solution: An Embedded Domain Specific Language (EDSL) in F#, containing the means to model the user interface, and the various manipulations of it. We hope that this DSL will bridge the gap between the business domain and technical domain of applications to such a degree that domain experts may be able to construct automatic tests without depending on QA developers, and that these tests will prove more maintainable.