Visual Studio UI Automation Testing (includes Coded UI tests) announcement

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  This Forum Has Been Retired
  John Boylan Monday, December 3, 2012 11:33 PM

  This forum has been locked; it will still be available for review in the Archived Forums folder. Any future posts on this topic should be put in the Test Tools in Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 forum.

  
  
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  Introducing Cross Browser Testing with Coded UI Tests
  Shubhra Maji MSFT Wednesday, October 31, 2012 3:02 AM

  Coded UI Tests help automate browser based applications built on Internet Explorer. We are now enabling cross-browser testing of such applications. Users will be able to perform functional testing of web applications across IE/Firefox/Chrome.  One can use IE to record tests and validate control properties using Coded UI Test Builder. Users also have an option to hand code cross browser tests. If user needs to playback on IE, she can click on Run All in Test Explorer which plays back the recording using Coded UI inbuilt IE Plugin. On the other hand, if the user needs to playback on non-IE browser, she can set BrowserWindow.CurrentBrowser as “firefox” or “chrome” in the test depending on which browser she wants to test before running from the test explorer.  In this case, Coded UI Engine communicates with Selenium Web Driver to execute the playback. 

  Hope you like this feature. Feel free to drop your feedback here

  System Requirements:

  1. Operating System: Windows 8 X86 Client/Windows 8 X64/Win7 X64/Win7 X86/Win2k8 R2 SP1
  2. IE version - IE9/ classic IE10 
  3. Firefox version - 15+
  4. Chrome version - 21+
  5. Visual Studio Ultimate - VS 2012 RTM  + VS 2012 Update 1 CTP
  6. Selenium NET Bindings and the Selenium ChromeDriver made available to you through an installer on Visual Studio Gallery. Refer to the file attachment "CUIT Cross Browser Testing Acquisition" for more details

  Features:

  The following features are available across the various web browsers:

  • Recording support for actions and validation on supported IE browsers
  • Hand-coding scenarios support for such things as control properties, search, and playback waiters.
  • Support for popups and dialog
  • Ability to execute basic JavaScript with no return type
  • Search resilience (via smart match) and performance improvements

  Scenario Videos: 

  Record on IE and Playback everywhere

  Author cross browser tests with Coded UI Test Builder

  Author cross browser tests using plain hand coding without UI Map

  Run cross browser tests sequentially on multiple browsers

  Troubleshoot cross browser test failures

  Known Limitations

  1. No support for Safari browser
  2. Browser launch needs to be part of the UITest. In case you have a browser already open and you want to run steps on the opened browser, playback will fail for non-IE browser windows. Hence, it is advisable to have launch too as part of the test case.
  3. Automating browser based actions such as Maximize/minimize/restore is not supported

  Troubleshooting tips

   Enable HTML Logger - follow http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj159363.aspx

  Feedback Survey:

  Please fill in the survey to register your feedback on this feature: https://s.zoomerang.com/s/CrossBrowserTesting. Your feedback will help us plan for further enhancement to the cross browser feature.

  
  

  
  
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  Coded UI Test Plugin for Silverlight
  Mathew Aniyan MSFT' Sunday, July 8, 2012 10:32 AM

  Using the Microsoft Visual Studio UI Test plugin for Silverlight, you can create Coded UI Tests or action recordings for Silverlight applications. Action recordings let you fast forward through steps in a manual test using Microsoft Test Manager. Coded UI Tests let you record actions, generate code and play back user interface tests using Microsoft Visual Studio.

  This plugin supports Silverlight 4 & 5 applications hosted in Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 & 10. It requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 RC.

  A few members of the product team got together and built this plugin as an off-hours project. It is not an official Microsoft release. We will monitor the Qand A section on the Visual Studio Galley site for feedback and queries.

  For more details and to download the plugin visit VisualStudio Gallery.

  Deepak Singhal, Mathew Aniyan, Siddhartha Pandey, Tapas Sahoo, Vishnupriyan Radhamanalan.

  
  
  
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  Code First API Library, Scaffolding & Guidance for Coded UI Tests–Released to Codeplex
  Mathew Aniyan MSFT' Saturday, March 10, 2012 3:46 AM

  The purpose of Code First API Library, Scaffolding & Guidance for Coded UI Tests is to help you write more maintainable Coded UI tests for your web apps.  When building Web UI Tests the way that's proposed here - you aren't going to be recording test scripts nor building UI Maps. Instead, you'll be writing Page Objects that are interacting with the elements on the page.

  See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2012/03/10/code-first-api-library-scaffolding-amp-guidance-for-coded-ui-tests-released-to-codeplex.aspx

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  Content Index for Coded UI Test
  Mathew Aniyan MSFT' Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:20 AM

  You can see a list of articles related to Coded UI Test (organized into various sections) in the link below.
  
  http://blogs.msdn.com/mathew_aniyan/pages/content-index-for-coded-ui-test.aspx
  
  It is a great place to start your exploration of Coded UI Test feature.