I recently became a leader in getting too many tests in a very short period of time. We have many different web forms using custom (Telerik) controls that you need to test to validate the data and intelligently process the data. Some forms contain several pages with 30-80 different input controls. I am looking for a software solution (free) that would allow me to automate the process of filling out these forms by creating a script or using the user interface. Another requirement is that I cannot use any browsers, but IE6 (horrible, I know).
I previously used AutoHotkey to automatically test a Windows form, because the Autohotkey API allows you to directly link to controls on a Windows form. However, Autohotkey does not support such support for web forms (all this is just one big "InternetExplorer").
Although I would prefer that I could script reject the data to help serialize each test, this is not necessary, since I could go back and manually edit a field or two (plus “break” any control, m is currently being tested) to serialize each test.
If you've ever seen Spawner:
http://forge.mysql.com/projects/project.php?id=214
It's almost what I'm looking for (Spawner generates dummy SQL data, as opposed to dummy data in the form), but I won’t be picky, I have a very short time to meet and this push is on my lap only today .;)
Edit1: One of the problems of simply using Autohotkey to simulate keyboard input (tabbing through controls) is that some controls do not currently have a tab index (error), and some controls reload the page after the change, which leads to inconsistent focus control (screwing tabs). Our application heavily uses page reloading to fill in the fields (select a location, it automatically fills the city, for example).