I am doing automatic UI testing of some program. The test is done through a script layer that I have made. Each test is started from the command line, however I would like to make a launcher program that executes a series of these tests and perhaps through a UI.

The problem is I do not know which approach is the best. I have seen a thread that uses Process and some say ShellExecute or something like that.

What is the best approach for executing external program from another program when I would like as much control of the process, such as waiting for a result or even waiting in the parent program for termination of the called program?

Thanks in advance

Jacob.

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I think the Process class will do! Thanks anyway. Jacob.

I think you can use WMI to watch the external program running from a process, also you can know when it is exiting or created etc.,
I am not sure about your requirement, but I am using WMI to watch the external process running.

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I managed to use Process, and it actually worked quite fine for the task at hand!

Thanks anyway :)

Jacob.