Problem Analysis
Enterprise development teams today rely on performing quality assurance testing across a wide range of IT and application environments to ensure their applications are designed and optimized for success. While automated testing tools addressing various stages of the application development lifecycle have been readily available in the past, developers building out the presentation layer or the user interface have not been able to take advantage of this high performance testing functionality.

Testing the presentation layer, which is often built with various plug-in tools that deliver essential functionality driving the application, has been painful due to the limited knowledge of the tool's object model by the automated testing tools. This scenario has often left developers either taking on the tedious task of writing custom code to test their applications or even not testing the presentation layer at all.

Thus the most important part of an application, the presentation layer, is left without regression testing or even basic user interface testing, leading to businesses taking the risk that their applications might fail.

Solution
Today, through their partnership, Infragistics, Inc. and Mercury™, are pleased to offer businesses the first out-of-the-box tool, automating the testing of the presentation layer! Infragistics TestAdvantage allows developers to automate the testing of the presentation layer in Windows Forms applications by extending Mercury QuickTest Professional to support Infragistics NetAdvantage™, the world's #1 selling presentation layer toolset. With the absolute knowledge of the NetAdvantage Windows Forms object model, TestAdvantage allows development teams to effortlessly extend the regression testing process to the presentation layer.

With QuickTest Professional and TestAdvantage, development teams can now deploy higher-quality Windows Forms applications faster, cheaper, and with less risk. Empower your development teams to extend best practices in your application development lifecycle to the presentation layer and experience the benefits of improved productivity and profitability from your presentation layer.

TestAdvantage
The first product of its kind, Infragistics TestAdvantage is a collection of Custom Libraries built using Mercury Interactive QuickTest Professional .NET add-in extensibility. TestAdvantage enables automated testing of the presentation layer, allowing developers to fully regression test Windows Forms applications with user interfaces developed using Infragistics NetAdvantage. With these Custom Libraries, QuickTest Professional will quickly record and replay script commands for such applications instead of using generic mouse coordinates. Fast playback enables more test scripts to run in a given amount of time, which enables better test coverage of applications and ultimately higher quality software.

TestAdvantage 2005 Volume 3 contains QuickTest Professional Custom Libraries for the Infragistics NetAdvantage 2005 Volume 3 Windows Forms Elements.

QuickTest Professional and .NET Add-In
Mercury's QuickTest Professional provides the industry's best solution for functional test and regression test automation - addressing every major software application and environment. QuickTest Professional deploys the concept of keyword-driven testing to radically simplify test creation and maintenance.