Series on Coded UI Test Extensibility

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I have posted a series of blogs on extensibility support in Coded UI Test.

  1. Introduction to Coded UI Test Extensibility
  2. “Hello, World” Extension for Coded UI Test
  3. Introducing Sample Excel Extension
  4. Technology Adapter of Sample Excel Extension
  5. Property Provider of Sample Excel Extension
  6. Action Filters of Sample Excel Extension

These should get anyone looking for writing extension for Coded UI Test, get started.  Use the Coded UI Test forum for questions\more info.

P.S. A related post: 7. Configure search properties used by recorder\code generation

More sidekicks:

8. Writing extension for WPF custom control

9. Extending supported properties set of a control

10. Writing your own client using UITest Object Model

More posts by Mathew Aniyan on this topic -

11. Custom WPF Control’s custom properties

12. Enabling UI Testing for Third party WinForms custom controls – 1

13. Enabling UI Testing for Third party WinForms custom controls – 2

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 11, 2011
    Hello Gautam, My name is Carl Cromer and I am currently using VS 2010 Ultimate. I am using the CUIT to test software. Basically clicking buttons, navigating the web app, etc. I have come across a nav tree that I cannot retrieve the objects (checkboxes) within with the crosshairs tool. It returns the container object and it has no children. I went through your series on the Code UI Test Extensibility and it didn't resolve my issue. Have you seen this issue before. Any help that you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

  • Anonymous
    January 11, 2011
    Your control seems like a custom control that has not exposed the functionality properly.  Please post your questions with details about the control on the forum (at social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../threads) to see if someone from community is able to help here.

  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2011
    Hi Gautam, Can you provide an example of implementing extensibility for MSAA technology?

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2011
    @Ravi - Not sure what you mean by this. Please elaborate.

  • Anonymous
    April 07, 2011
    Hello Gautam, I want to create Setup/Exe of the Coded Auto UI test Project script written for one web application to run it on multiple machines. Can we do it? if Yes How? Please Help.

  • Anonymous
    April 13, 2011
    Please check blogs.msdn.com/.../how-to-get-uitesting-methods-working-outside-the-testmethod-of-coded-ui-test.aspx

  • Anonymous
    May 25, 2011
    Hi Gautam Goenka, Thanks for your posts, and they are very helpful. Currently in my project, we are using a third party dll called iGrid, hxxp://www.10tec.com/ (please replace hxxp with http). The problem with this dll in Auto UI testing is that, for example, UI testing can only identify the whole DataGrid, but not an individual cell.  Although after reading your posts, I still don't know how to start to work to extend my project to support this dll. The excel example is using .NET remoting which confuses me. Do you have an easy eample or can you give me some advice how should I work to achieve extensibility? Thank you very much.

  • Anonymous
    May 30, 2011
    @Sai - If the Grid does not support accessibility, which seems to be the case, you need to get the information via some other means.  In case of Excel, I used Excel Addin that sits in the Excel process and communicates with Coded UI Test (in another process) via .NET Remoting.  You will have do something similar.  This may not be easy but I don't have any better solution.

  • Anonymous
    July 26, 2011
    Hi , I am trying to UIA instead of MSAA for all controls. I downloaded the UIAProxy sample and followed the instructions above,but then the application is still recording/recognizing controls using MSAA . referred UitestLog.html( %temp%UItestLogs).however the UitestLog.html shows the overriden GetService() in UIAProxyPackage.cs. At run time, Playback.GetCoreTechnologyManager() from the recorded steps of the application also shows as MSAA.  Should I need to override the methods in technologyManager.cs  ? please help. Thanks,

  • Anonymous
    July 29, 2011
    Please check social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../34d54b82-cc15-4e16-bd91-a7ed4c08a7ac Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    August 24, 2011
    Hi Gautam, Looking at this sample it looks very much like this has been architectured to only deal with one control type, The cell. Are you able to give me a quick overview of what classes you would need to have for each control type you want to support? it looks like there should be a PropertyProvider, Information class, an element class (the base element seems to have cell specific info) and a PropertyNames class. is this right?

  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2011
    Please send me a mail using the blog and I will try to hook you with someone who can help you furhter.

  • Anonymous
    October 21, 2011
    Hi Gautham, i am using the coded ui Testing for my application i have wriiten script for my application and even my script is working fine but at one particular place i am facing problem and the error i checked in the log file is "Browser is trying to block the control" and my script is getting stopped can u please help me what might be the problem

  • Anonymous
    October 23, 2011
    Hi Gautam, I am currently planning to use Descriptive programming for my Silverlight Application. Could you direct me to any blog where  there is a step by step guide on creating coded ui test using descriptive programming. Or are there any sample code where i can download them. Thanks Sadhana

  • Anonymous
    October 24, 2011
    @sadhana - I am not aware of any

  • Anonymous
    October 24, 2011
    @sravan - Please post your issue on forums - social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../threads and someone from community will help you.

  • Anonymous
    January 23, 2012
    Hi Gautam can we write plugins for the coded ui to run on chrome?

  • Anonymous
    February 02, 2012
    @venkat - Yes, but it will be some work, say few man months at least.

  • Anonymous
    February 07, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    March 11, 2012
    @Dave - Sorry for late reply.  I did not get any notification for this comment.  For web controls, I believe this should work without need for any provider.  You can get the control and its IHtmlElement (via casting the NativeElement property) - with that you should be able to validate this.

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2012
    Hello Gautam, We are in Plan to migarate all our Existing QTP scripts to VSTS Coded UI. As I seen MS have Already "Coded UI frameWork" In place. Can you please suggest/Guide me Like how much addtional cost we need to Pay for same we are license For VS2010 ulimate version already. Thanks, Naveen

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2012
    @Naveen - The Coded UI Test is included in VS Premium and VS Ultimate.  So if you have that already, you don't need to pay anything more!!! P.S.  This is the most "happy" answer I have ever given!

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2012
    Thats Great. Thanks for confirmation. P.S. Nice to see this "Happy" Answer :).

  • Anonymous
    April 14, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    April 15, 2012
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  • Anonymous
    April 26, 2012
    Hi Gautam, Our application is developed using Dev Express. I have seen in Mathew's blog, that with extensions and accessibility we can automate Devexpress controls using coded UI. But my question is, if there is no code change possible from Developer side on Dev Express, can I automate the test using only coded ui extensions.Controls appear as MSAA client object presently. Please let me know if that is possible

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2012
    Hi there i have a similar case to the one been posted here "Enabling UI Testing for Third party WinForms custom controls – 1" but my case is at WPF. what is the best practice for the issue? would item status help me here?

  • Anonymous
    May 08, 2012
    @Durga - No, the code change is not possible from the developer side to improve the support.  The author of the control (in this case DevExpress) has to do that.  We are working with various vendors on this and will share the plan when we have something confirmed. @Aharon - For WPF, you should refer msdn.microsoft.com/.../aa350483.aspx and download.microsoft.com/.../WPF_Application_Quality_Guide_CTP4_Final.doc

  • Anonymous
    May 15, 2012
    Coded UI support application devloped using Java Script and ActiveX controls?

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2012
    @naren - It supports Java Script but not ActiveX.

  • Anonymous
    May 23, 2012
    i am trying to record coded ui for WPF application. my goal ls to click on button (Mybutton). Problem - in the application there is another control which in not visible (transparet) and it lays on top of my button. Each time i'm clicking myButton - the code which the CUIT generates is for the blockingControl i have the app code - but have no permissions to change the xaml (i can add my own implementation such "onCrerationAutomationPeer" ) Is there a way to write a plug in which will know to recognize that the BlockingCcontrol is not visible - and will not choose it?

  • Anonymous
    May 24, 2012
    Hi Gautham I am looking for a CodedUI extension for Microsoft outlook . Could you be able provide a sample project for the same.

  • Anonymous
    May 31, 2012
    @Rajan - Sorry, I am not aware of any sample project for Outlook.  Above series is your best bet to create the sample.

  • Anonymous
    May 31, 2012
    @Ed - If you can post the issue on forum (social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../threads) along with the XAML snippet, I am sure someone will be able to help you.  There are lot of parameters that can be tweaked here - so the person need to try it out for the exact case.

  • Anonymous
    July 09, 2012
    Hi Gautam, I saw your sample excel extension project   , but I need to create same for Microsoft outlook which will allow me to capture the mail item , which is not working with coded UI.. If I need to create a coded UI outlook extension , how should I need to proceed to achieve this and how to begin with. Thanks in Advance.

  • Anonymous
    July 29, 2012
    @Rajesh - I am not aware of anyone having created Outlook plugin for Coded UI Test. There is Excel sample and Rangers have also published Word sample.  Between these two, you should get fair deal to try an Outlook plugin.

  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2012
    Hi Gautam, I want to write a program that is similar to CodedUITestBuilder. It will use the raw actions that generated by "recorder service" to build some custom actions. The question is: Are there any APIs to support my program to start the "recorder service" then listen to its raw actions? Thanks, Learner

  • Anonymous
    October 29, 2012
    @learner - Sorry, the recorder APIs are not publicly exposed.