Testing Flash Applications on the Internet Using Selenium

Question

I want to test Microstrategy applications using any web testing tools. I realized that seleniun serves my purpose well. But microstrategy applications are deployed in flash formats. Please help me with a guide on how to test these flash applications, is there any tool? Can I use only selenium and how to use it? thanks in advance

Answer 1

Selenium cannot interact with Flash objects.

You can use FlashSelenium, which is pretty old, but seems to work:

http://code.google.com/p/flash-selenium/

Or use Sikuli, the Adobe Genie library, or the Ranorex library:

http://sourceforge.net/adobe/genie/wiki/Home/ http://www.ranorex.com/product/automated-ui-testing-of-flash-flex-applications.html http: //www.sikuli .org /

For testing Flash UI, very limited tools and information.

Another alternative is to interact with it directly using Javascript.

Answer 2

sikuli is good because it is based on JAVA, so you can add your jar file to your build path. Another one is AUTOIT, where it is a “simple bad” idea that is not recommended, but in some cases it may (or may not) come in handy. Since you must give the coordination (x, y) of any element and enter the code to interact with it, like clicking or entering text.