This is another questions that I have got asked multiple times - How do I use the methods in Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamTest.UITesting namespace outside the TestMethod of Coded UI Test ?  For example, I want to do a one time initialization of my...

In my previous blog I mentioned that based on the questions from various folks, I saw two common usage patterns for extensibility. I addressed the first pattern around “custom WPF control with good accessibility” in that blog. In this blog I will take...

Ever since I wrote extensibility series on Coded UI Test , I have been getting lot of good feedback via questions and comments. One learning that I got from this is there are folks out there wanting to use the extensibility and are not able to easily...

Euan did a wonderful session in MIX10 on Improving Software Quality for the Modern Web . The session includes various demos of Coded UI Test and Fast Forward in test runner including never seen before demo of Silverlight support for Coded UI Test. The...

The blog is last updated on July 14th, 2010. For latest on "Coded UI Test support for Silverlight", please refer here . For latest on "Platform support matrix for Coded UI Test", please refer here . Whenever we talk about platform coverage for...

Coded UI Test uses accessibility ( UI Automation ) for testing of WPF application.  This accessibility (UI Automation) infrastructure only exposes a subset of control properties which is limiting in some cases.  For example, there is no easy...

WPF makes it really easy to data bind properties of a control including the children collection of ItemsControl like ListBox, ComboBox, TreeView etc. For example, for a list box, the user can easily bind the ItemsSource property. When an ItemsControl...

This question came up couple of times from internal users - Given a combo box (or list), I can set SelectedItem (or SelectedItems) property to select a list item.  However, how do I do this directly from list item itself i.e. given a list item, how...

Today we have released the Beta of “Visual Studio Test Package for Mozilla Firefox” which can be downloaded from here . Test Package for Mozilla Firefox is a power tool for Visual Studio 2010 that extends the Coded UI Test and Action Recording features...