Introduction Visual Studio UI Test Scenarios and Extensibility is described in my blog here . An oft-asked question in this respect is how Visual Studio UI Test works with jquery controls. Jquery has become a very popular platform for building custom...

Do you have a feature suggestion for Coded UI Test? Log it at http://visualstudioalm.uservoice.com . You can also vote on others’ feature suggestions. Note that User Voice is really not the best avenue for reporting bugs in the current version of the...

In the previous article, I described how we can make the DevExpress Scheduler Control & Appointments visible to Visual Studio UI Testing Framework. In this article, I will describe how we can retrieve rich properties for both these controls. These...

Most of the leading Third party WinForms custom control vendors implement Microsoft Active Accessibility(MSAA). Since Visual Studio UI Testing framework uses MSAA for WinForms controls, it is natural to expect that users can test these custom controls...

A number of customers have asked me about how to use the UI Test Extensibility model to get custom properties from a custom WPF control. e.g:- I have a custom Button which does some animation when clicked. This button has 3 interesting properties –...

One of the most frequent asks in Coded UI Test Forums is the ability to add all controls on a page to the UI Map. This can be done with the following code snippet. Here I am adding all controls on the bing start page to the specified ui test file.  ...

1 Overview In this article, I will delve into the design of extensibility model for Visual Studio UI Test Framework and layout a roadmap which 3 rd party UI Control vendors can use to build UI Testing support for their controls. I will also describe how...

One of the most frequent questions regarding Coded UI Tests goes like this - “I have a test running very well on my machine. But when I run it on another machine, it becomes very slow.” When our team investigates, in most cases (not all), this is due...

  Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers. This introduces support for testing Silverlight 4 applications. Use Microsoft Test Manager to capture and playback action recordings for Silverlight 4 applications. Create...

Visual Studio Lab Management capability will be available at the end of August 2010.   See the various blogs which describe in more detail. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/amit_chatterjee/archive/2010/08/04/final-release-of-visual-studio-lab-management-announced...

UITestControl.DrawHighlight() is a very useful method (especially during debugging). It draws a blue rectangle around the UI Test Control.   For WinMenuItems, if DrawHighlight() is called, it will click on the parent menu item to make the child menu...

You should not add assertions on the following properties. They will most probably fail in future test runs because they are dynamic in nature. Bounding Rectangle Window Handle Top Parent Class Name in case of winforms(sometimes)

    An MSDN article -  How to: Configure and Run Scheduled Tests After Building Your Application – describes the steps required to run Coded UI Test as part of building the application.   For running the Coded UI test with the Build...

Whenever Coded UI Test Builder is recording actions on an application under test, a ‘Currently Recording’ caption is shown on the application’s title bar.     This helps you to identify that recording is going on for that application.  ...

Most probably, the application is running under different user credentials. Due to limitations in the underlying Microsoft Active Accessibility, we cannot record on applications which run under a different user credential from the user running Coded UI...

If an HtmlList has multiple items with the same name, you cannot select both the identical items. e.g:- this.UIMap.UIHomePageWindowsInterWindow.UIHomePageDocument.UICtl00MainContentListList.SelectedItems = new string[]{"Washington","Washington"...

You cannot launch a Click-Once application using ApplicationUnderTest.Launch(). e.g:- ApplicationUnderTest.Launch(@"C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\LOB Apps\YourApplication.appref-ms");   This will...

Orientation property is not implemented for WinScrollBar since there is no reliable way of getting it using Microsoft Active Accessibility.

HtmlListItem.HasFocus will return false always since a list item cannot be given focus manually. SetFocus on HtmlListItem will not work since a list item cannot be given focus manually. NOTE: There will be no exception thrown. Coded UI Test will continue...

Most probably, this is because you have not initialized Playback.   In this post , Gautam has described how to use UI Testing methods without creating a Coded UI Test. It is important to note that,  If Playback.Initialize() is not called before...

In this blog , Siddhartha has described Window search and Windowed properties. There a few implications of using Window Search. Window Search is applicable only if give Technology Name = MSAA If we specify multiple search properties (both windowed and...

If you have controls such as H2 or CITE in your web page, you will not be able to drag the crosshair from the Coded UI Test Builder and drop it on them.   NOTE: You can use the navigation dial to access these controls. i.e Drop the crosshair on a...

I have the following construct in my html page. <a href=" http://bing.com" ><img src="bing.jpg"/></a>   I am unable click on this hyperlink. Why?   In this case, the hyperlink does not have a clickable point...

In this blog , Gautam has talked about how to create an extension package and deploy it. Excerpt from the above blog: “Build & Deploy the extension Build and deploy the binaries to " %CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\VSTT\10.0\UITestExtensionPackages...

In this blog , Bala has described how Coded UI Test searches for controls. A frequently asked follow-up question is “What if i give an invalid search property?”   For Web technology, If an invalid SearchProperty is used to Find a UITestControl, it...