# Does Ruby support package for GUI Testing?

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 16, 2009, 8:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-ruby-support-package-for-gui-testing/162962 "2009-03-16T08:47:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![ulrichmp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/b77776/32.png) [@ulrichmp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ulrichmp)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 8:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-ruby-support-package-for-gui-testing/162962/1 "2009-03-16T08:47:02Z")

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Hi,

I would like to know if Ruby support some package for GUI Testing?  
My requirement is to test a .Net / C# based GUI application.

Earlier I have used Ruby Watir for Web Testing.

Please let me know on this

Thanks,  
Ulrich

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**Author:** ![ulrichmp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/b77776/32.png) [@ulrichmp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ulrichmp)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 8:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-ruby-support-package-for-gui-testing/162962/2 "2009-03-16T08:55:44Z")

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Ulrich Susai wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know if Ruby support some package for GUI Testing?  
> My requirement is to test a .Net / C# based GUI application.
> 
> Earlier I have used Ruby Watir for Web Testing.

Your question reveals the heartbreaking distance between the state of  
the art in  
software engineering and .Net.

Ruby is not some language invented as the scripting layer for a  
thru-the-GUI  
test tool.

Test .Net using NUnit:

[NUnit.org](http://www.nunit.org/index.php)

However, if your program was not already written with unit tests, then  
you are  
on a fools’ mission. You are the good money thrown after bad. The  
authors of  
that program should have been writing it with unit tests, the way  
Charlie and  
others like him have been telling programmers to do for the past decade.

And notice I’m talking about tests that run from inside the program,  
calling its  
methods and objects directly, with nothing between the tests and code to  
add  
noise. If you had such tests, then writing tests that reach out to GUI  
objects  
and treat them as objects would be very easy.

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**Author:** ![ulrichmp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/b77776/32.png) [@ulrichmp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ulrichmp)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-ruby-support-package-for-gui-testing/162962/3 "2009-03-16T14:33:02Z")

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Ulrich Susai wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to know if Ruby support some package for GUI Testing?  
> My requirement is to test a .Net / C# based GUI application.
> 
> Earlier I have used Ruby Watir for Web Testing.
> 
> Please let me know on this
> 
> Thanks,  
> Ulrich

The package is Win32API. There is book all about this called GUI  
Scripted Testing with Ruby [O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training](http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356180/) .  
It’s a lot simpler than you might imagine.