This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Relationship experience division (RXD) team.

CUITe is coded UI test enhanced framework available at http://cuite.codeplex.com/ useful for test UI automation. The advantages of CUITe is reduced code, better readability and maintainability. Let me show how to use CUITe.

• Download and install from http://cuite.codeplex.com/
• Launch CUITe_ObjectRecorder
• Enter website address to test
• 
• Click on record
• Click on the controls in web page
• Click on Code button in the toolbar
• It will generate the code as  shown below

  using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.Linq;
  using System.Text;
  using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting;
  using CUITe.Controls.HtmlControls;

  namespace $ProjectNameSpace.$ObjectRepository
  {
     
         public class LoginWindow : CUITe_BrowserWindow
      {
          public new string sWindowTitle = "Server Login";
          public CUITe_HtmlEdit txtusername = new CUITe_HtmlEdit("Id=username");
          public CUITe_HtmlPassword txtpassword = new CUITe_HtmlPassword("Id=password");
          public CUITe_HtmlInputButton btnLogIn = new CUITe_HtmlInputButton("Value=Log In");

      }
  }

• Create test project.
• Record a normal Coded UI test to get all references done automatically.
• Add reference to “CUITe.dll”  from the install path. Do not copy and reference.
• Create objectrepository folder
• Add a class file and rename it to LoginWindow
• Copy paste the above code in a LoginWindow.cs file which will act as object repository. Update the name space and class name appropriately.
• Can have inheritance work for object repository classes (move common stuff to parent classes for better organization and modularity).
• In test methods you can call the objects as

LoginWindow.txtusername.SetText(username);

LoginWindow.txtpassword .SetText(password);

LoginWindow.btnLogIn .Click();

Note:

1. Object recorder now only works for html/web.

2. Object recorder only records the object/control definitions, not actions.

For more information refer the site http://cuite.codeplex.com/

- Syed Aslam Basha (syedab@microsoft.com)

Relationship experience division (RXD) Team

Test Lead

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