This blog assumes that you have a prior understanding of Coded UI Test extensibility. If not, a good starting point would be here . Also check out additional links in the “Extending Coded UI Test” section available here . In this post,...

The control search in Coded UI Test playback is essentially a breadth first search. For extension plugins that have in-built search capability, the plugin writer can implement its own search logic. What typically remains the same is the way the search...

Check for a new troubleshooting content on Coded UI Test here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2012/03/04/handling-playback-failures-in-coded-ui-test-due-to-stale-ui-controls.aspx

In this blog post I’ll go through some approaches you can make use of in your Coded UI Test project to achieve better playback performance. Meanwhile, do check an earlier post here that covers some common scenarios. As I see, there are lot of APIs...

Coded UI Test relies on unique identification properties of controls to form a resilient search condition during recording. In WPF you can data bind properties of a control and its children collection of ItemsControl such as ListBox, ComboBox, DataGrid...

We have been receiving numerous queries related to record and playback in Coded UI Test. In most of the scenarios, some additional information is sought after to debug and nail the issue. In this post, I will enumerate some basic validations that you...

In this post, I will try to summarize some of the key areas around Coded UI Test automation on Silverlight DataGrid control. The content is targeted for QA engineers writing Coded UI Test automation, who I hope will find it useful to troubleshoot any...

In one of my earlier blogs here , I had explained the some search failure scenario and how to go about tackling the problem. As a continuation to that, I’m providing a simple application scenario and the solution here. My test scenario is...

Recently we got some feedback from a customer that they are not able to access some control inside a datagrid cell. Basically they wanted to do some validation on this control's properties. Coded UI Test uses the UIAutomation's ControlView TreeWalker...

While automating WPF controls in Coded UI Test, the playback would sometimes through an exception with the following error message: “Search may have failed at <ControlX> as it may have virtualized children. If the control being searched...

In this blog post, I will describe the various key points that need to be addressed while implementing a new control support in a Coded UI Test Plugin (a WPF plugin in this case). A sample WPF Calendar control example gives an in-depth on the various...

Bringing the control into view is an essential part of the UITestAction during Playback since Coded UI Test performs actual Mouse/Keyboard actions on the control instead of programmatic action on the control. In case of failure to bring the control into...

Coded UI Test supports “Intent Aware Recording” i.e. the recording attempts to capture the intent of the user instead of the raw SendKeys or MouseClick actions . In order to achieve this, Coded UI Test has in-built Action Filters that process...

In Coded UI Test you can fetch the property of a control using two approaches – 1. Use the properties exposed in the Specialized Class. E.g. SilverlightList.SelectedItems returns the selected items in the list box. 2. Use the UITestControl...

One of the primary objectives during recording in Coded UI Test is to generate a robust search condition for a UI control to be uniquely identifiable during playback. In this post I’ll mention some of the search logic specific to the Silverlight...