Open source UI Automation testing using White framework

Most organizations encourage open source tools to implement automation testing of their products/softwares, and it indirectly encourages testers/programmers to expose more into difference technologies to find best automation tool and should be freely available, so here is what I found a very tiny yet powerful open source automation testing framework to automate the testing process, called White framework.
Hope this may be useful!!!

All you need is –

• Visual Studio express edition (Completely free).
• Knowledge in C#.
• TestStack.White framework dlls.
• UI automation verifier which we call object spy as testers.

and at last but not the least – some web links/ forums to get the idea about programming.

Visual Studio Express Edition – 
Microsoft provides it as free edition to create windows forms and for writing class libraries and can download the same from HERE.

Knowledge in C# – 
Some of the web links that I follow frequently are –
http://www.dotnetperls.com/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/System.Windows.Forms.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/

TestStack.White framework dlls – 

• Once Visual Studio is installed, Open a new project as “Windows Forms Application” (Enter project Name, location – optional) and then,
• From the Visual studio menu bar, follow this

• Once the install done, we will get the white framework dlls under the current visual studio project folder, e.g – C:UsersDocumentsVisual Studio 2012ProjectsWindowsFormsApplication1packages
• Now from File menu -> Add -> new Project and select class library (change name and lcoation – optional), this is where we write our functions or code to automate.
• make sure we have added all the required dlls as reference to the class library from the solution explorer of visual studio, if not – do the following –

On the solution explorer – > click on the class library and add the dlls to the references by browsing proper location of package on the local drive.

• dlls you may need initially – TestStack.White.dll and Castle.Core.dll.

UI automation verifier –
The UI spy can be downloaded from HERE.

All the best!!!