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Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink 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...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink 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...

Whenever we talk about platform coverage for UI automation one of the frequent requests is support for Silverlight app testing. We have been hard at work trying to cater to this need and here is an update on where we are with this roadmap. We are working...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink 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...

Whenever we talk about platform coverage for UI automation one of the frequent requests is support for Silverlight app testing. We have been hard at work trying to cater to this need and I wanted to update you all on where we are with this effort and...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink 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...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of $549, a saving of $250. If you use a previous version of Visual Studio or...

I’ve been asking our marketing team where I can point customers to a site on Microsoft.com for Test Professional. They informed me that this new SKU is now available on Microsoft.com’s Visual Studio site. You can go directly to the site here: http://www...

This post gives a step-by-step guide to keeping your Test Plans / Suites in sync with your Unit Test assemblies using TCM.exe: http://blogs.msdn.com/densto/archive/2010/03/12/how-to-keep-your-test-plans-suites-in-sync-with-your-unit-test-assemblies.aspx

Introduction In the previous blog post Analyzing Test Results in MTM– Part 1 we have seen how to find the run and a snapshot of various test run analysis features. In this blog post we will look at Analyzing a test failures using Test case result view...

Introduction CodedUITest can be executed in many ways, from VS IDE, MSTest.exe and from Microsoft Test Manager. If the user has run the tests from VS IDE or MSTest, he can publish the results to TCM Server using the publish button in the test results...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink 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,...

http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2010/03/01/a-different-way-of-presenting-the-visual-studio-2010-testing-tools.aspx It comes with a really cool presentation framework he produced. Check it out!   Yours, David Williamson

Two posts that give some examples of how to use the Test Management API have been posted over at http://blogs.msdn.com/densto . The Test Management API – Getting Started The Test Management API – Part 2: Creating & Modifying Test Plans Check them...

Today we have released two new Power Tools from Microsoft Research, Pex and Moles.  Pex and Moles are Visual Studio 2010 Powertools that help Unit Testing .NET applications.  Pex automatically generates test suites with high code coverage. Right...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink 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...

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...

If you have upgraded from Visual Studio 2010 Beta2, you may have noticed that when using the Visual Studio IDE to run your tests, "Run Tests in Current Context" (Ctrl+R, T) sometimes runs all tests in your solution, rather than just the tests...

Back around late September 2009, our team began actively blogging about our product, just released for Beta. We had a lot of new applications and features, and we wanted to get information out to the community. This is a graph of the posts with their...

Our User Education team has been doing a lot of work getting our online help topics ready for release. You may have noticed that with each Beta and RC the online help was also updated to match the latest product changes.   One of the things we’re...

When working with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), you might want to run two at a time. We often want this internally so we can test MTM with MTM. However, when we created MTM, we didn’t want people to accidently open up multiple instances just because they...

Sometimes when using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), you want to quickly zip around the application, without using the mouse. We’ve enabled this in MTM with a number of keyboard shortcuts: Area Shortcut Backwards Alt+Left, Back Key (multimedia keyboards...

I’d like to announce an update to Test Scribe that is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC).  In particular, we’ve addressed some issues in side-by-side with Orcas, and updated the tool for compatibility with the RC release of...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink A while back, I got following question from a user of Coded UI Test   We want to run the same test across multiple environments to ensure everything is still working correctly. Dev->...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink We have collected various internal and external feedback and built up a library of utility functions for Coded UI Test for various Web\Win\WPF controls.  These APIs will work on VS2010...