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I can understand how UI automation can help retrieve information from text boxes within windows forms applications. How can I retrieve information however from command prompt tools and web browsers? I have a telnet session that I would like to read data from as well as a simple web based tool with plain html. Any ideas?
I could be wrong, but I don’t think there’s an easy way to interact with console programs using the UIA API, and web browsers, while possible, would be time-consuming to deal with. But other libraries can help.
Are you using C#? If so, for console applications, you can probably use the Process class if your automated test are simple – here’s an old post about the same topic:
Command line automation – expect equivalent
I’m actually still searching for a free Expect-like C# library. Haven’t spent too much time looking yet, though.
For web automation, I suggest using the Selenium C# client driver – as far as I know, it should do what you need:
http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.html
http://seleniumhq.org/download/