Rational Visual Test

Visual Test is one of the most widely used GUI automation tools for testing Microsoft Windows applications ever released. Originally released by Microsoft in 1992, then sold to Rational Software in 1996.

Books on Visual Test

Title	Brief Description
"A Modular Approach to Visual Test 4.0 Programming"	Free book by Richard Wartner looking at approaches to programming in Visual Test 4.0 and beyond.
"Visual Test 6 Bible"	Published by IDG Books / Hungryminds, this 700-page book & CD-ROM takes you from beginning to advanced topics in using Rational Visual Test.

Free VT Tutorials

Title	Type	Time	Description
"Simple Example"		12:51	What an simple automated script in Visual Test looks like
"File Access Methods"		18:42	Using sequential, random & binary file access methods

Training on Visual Test

Title	Type	Description
Intro: Visual Test 6.5 (Xtend Development)	Webinar	This class introduces participants to the Visual Test 6.5 test automation tool
VT6 InDepth (Xtend Development)	VHS	10-tape (10-hour) video series on beginning to advanced topics on Visual Test 6.x. Presented by Tom Arnold, author of Visual Test 6 Bible.

Add-On Tool

Test Now 2.0 is an add-on tool for Visual Test 4.0. Although it was not updated for the 6.x version of VT the provided source code continues to offer helpful ideas for your scripts. This tool is unsupported and only available on this site by special permission from the tool's original creators. Download (1.17mb zip)

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