How do you mean test exactly? If you only want to check the text & layout of 
dialogs you can preview them using Orca or InstEd!
The recommended approach for installation testing is to use virtual machines -> 
http://www.joyofsetup.com/2007/09/24/test-your-setups-virtually/
In addition to the products Bob A. recommends I'd add VMWare's ESXi (now known 
as vSphere Hypervisor) if you have hardware which it supports as it's pretty 
damn impressive as well as free.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Francisco Gabriel Malbrán [mailto:fgmalb...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 09 May 2011 20:03
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Testing the UI

Hello there.

I've been struggling around this subject for some time now, and I'm
wondering
about the best approach to follow on achieving such objective.
Right now, what I am thinking on is to mock all the installer by
customizing
the entire dialog set and placing all the dialogs one behind the other (so
they
can be tested on localization matters).Yet this is a partial solution
because of
all possible error messages. Besides makes me feel like a cave man intending
to
make fire :).

Is there any recommended approach on the matter?

Any previous experience story or custom approach would also be good :).

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Francisco
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