When testing Silver Light applications, we frequently run into dealing with non-Html content types. This is because most of the Silver Light applications use WCF RIA web services. Typically, this will be a binary format called MSBin1. Also, Silver Light...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink In my earlier series on extensibility of Coded UI Test , I mentioned that it is possible to write your own client using UITest Object Model i.e. use the recording for something else. ...

Hello everyone - Please find some answers to the most common questions that we have been getting asked below. We will try to keep this updated over time. Automation Q: What is the difference between what Microsoft Test Manager offers and...

Syed just posted a blog about how to import unit tests from multiple assemblies in one hit. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/syedmehdi/archive/2010/04/22/how-to-import-multiple-unit-test-assemblies-using-tcm-exe.aspx Thanks Bruce Taimana

Today, I was working with a customer that was have a performance problem with Microsoft Test Manager. Upon investigation, we found out that the customer had a large number of builds (many thousands in this case), but hadn’t scoped their test plan to a...

In this blog, I am going to discuss about how attachments are stored when you file a bug from the Test Runner . When you file a bug in the test runner, below are the sequence of operations that happen: The test is paused ... Note: Cross posted from Get...

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There has been a lot of confusion regarding difference between action recording for a test case and action log. I must admit that the similarities between them do make them a bit confusing to start with. However, they are meant for two different purposes...

Introduction Test Package for Mozilla Firefox will be a feature pack for Visual Studio 2010 that enables playback of UI actions on a website/web application that have been recorded on Windows Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on Mozilla Firefox web browser. Currently...

Introduction In Visual Studio 2010, CodedUITest provides partial support to MFC applications. It uses MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility) which is a part of Windows Automation API 2.0 to drive the automation on MFC controls. The same plugin also supports...

Introduction UITest framework supports Sharepoint 2007 & 2010 as any other ASP.Net application. This blog gives you an overview of what is not supported in SharePoint in Visual Studio 2010 release.   Assumption Since UITest uses IE pluggin for...

In the Part 1 of this blog we looked at how the WPF plugin of UITest framework records and playback actions. In this blog we will look at known issues with this plugin and how to troubleshoot failures      WPF Config Matrix UITest...

Introduction UITest uses Windows Automation API 2.0/3.0 also known as UI Automation (UIA) to drive the automation on WPF controls. UITest supports WPF applications developed on top of .net 3.5/4.0 framework. However the level of support for UITest Applications...

In the Part 1 of this blog we looked at how the Winform plugin of UITest framework records and playback actions. In this blog we will look at known issues with this plugin and how to troubleshoot failures   Known Issues in Winforms Plugin  ...

Introduction UITest framework supports Windows Forms (in short Winforms) applications developed using .Net 2.0/3.5/4.0 framework. Ituses MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility) which is a part of Windows Automation API 2.0 to drive the automation on Winforms...

In the Part 1 of this blog we looked at how the IE plugin of UITest framework records and playsback actions. In this blog we will look at known issues with this plugin and how to troubleshoot failures   Known Issues with Record and Playback in IE...

Introduction to IE Plugin The plugin for Internet explorer makes use of mshtml for accessing the DOM constructed by the IE engine. The Document Object Model is a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically...

In Part 1 of this blog we saw UITest architecture and how it is used in Microsoft Test runner. In this blog we will see how it is used in CodedUITest and how to troubleshoot and get resilient playback.   Automated Functional Tests using CodedUITest...

Introduction Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 has lot of exciting features which caters to the needs of customers in the ALM space. Visual Studio Team Test (VSTT) is part of VSTS offering and in this release lot of new cool features has been added...

We have released a tool on Visual Studio Gallery to upgrade Coded UI Test projects created in Beta2 to RTM.   The following changes were made in Coded UI Test between Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and RTM UserControls.cs file has been removed. All specialized...

Note: Cross posted from Siddhartha Pandey - MSFT . Permalink In this post I will be describing what does NextSibling means in context of search. But before doing that I will mention the ways in which search can happen. There are two ways (exclusive...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink This is guest blog by my colleague Rajeev Kumar . The Coded UI Test does not provide the API to compare images. There are cases when user wants to verify the changes in the UI by comparing...

I mentioned this a while back , but it is an easy thing to forget so I bears repeating for everyone who is using Manage Queries in MTM. If you want to have multiple queries open, there is a way to do it. Say you open MTM and Manage Queries. You click...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink In Coded UI Test , we support “Intent Aware Recording” which means recorder tries to capture the intent of the user instead of the raw actions.  For example, say on a Win7 box user does following...

It seems I am still learning the wonders of blogs.  I have finally posted this but it seems to be lost in the plethora of the others blogs posted since then. http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/09/04/extending-the-visual-studio-unit...