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If you have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (Professional or Team System - Any Edition) installed then that should be all you need. Simply download Automation Design Canvas from here and install it. Then download our quick start guide from here. The guide contains step-by-step instructions with images that help you start recording right away. Once you are done, you should be familiar with most of the designer features and you should be ready to automate your own scenarios. Our How-To videos available here are also a good starting point.

No. Automation Design Canvas was designed for both developers and non-developers. You should be able to record most of your scenarios without the need to write a single line of code. Automation Design Cavnas comes with a rich point-and-click designer that enables rich recording without scripting or coding. You can also edit existing tests by changing their properties in the properties window. For more details check out our designer features here.

Automation Design Canvas is built on top of the WebAii Framework. In fact if you already know how to use the WebAii API, you should be able to transition easily to using Automation Design Canvas. All recorded tests in Design Canvas are convertable to code. The code generated by the designer is native WebAii framework code. Furthermore, any existing WebAii tests can be easily integrated into test beds generated by Automation Design Canvas. Many existing WebAii Framework customers have jumped on Automation Design Canvas and found it useful to:

1. Generate unit tests faster. Record your tests in Design Canvas and with a click of a button generate VS or NUnit tests that you can include in your projects.
2. Other customers that still prefer to write code by hand, liked the idea of having Automation Design Canvas manage their project elements for them. With the strongly-typed elements model and its integration with the surface and DOM Explorers, users can simply use the designer to manage, update and resolve element failures in the designer and separate that from their automation code logic.

The current version (v1.1) does not support recording against Silverlight applications but we are working on that as we speak. The V2.0 version of Automation Design Canvas due later this year should have Silverlight recording capability. That being said, our WebAii Framework 2.0 beta currently available from here, does support test automation execution against Silverlight applications.

Our machine license costs $2499. The license comes with 1 fully year of product support, major & minor version upgrades. You can also purchase a server license for $199 that is used for executing Design Canvas tests on server machines like build servers. For more details check out our purchase page here.

We offer both "Machine" or "Server" licenses. A machine license entitles any user to use that machine to build, edit and execute test automation on that machine. A Server license gives a specific machine the ability to only execute tests already authored but you can't edit or build test automation on that machine. For more information regarding our licensing check out our purchase page here.