10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Posted By: Brian Keller | May 6th @ 6:57 AM | 44,410 Views | 17 Comments
In this episode of 10-4 we look at a new type of test coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010 known as the coded UI test. Coded UI tests can be created to automatically navigate through your application's UI, which in turn can be used to verify that the paths your users might take through your application are working properly. You can also add validation logic along the way to verify the properties of objects within the UI. Much like unit tests can quickly surface regressions on a method or function level, coded UI tests can bring the same level of rapid automated testing capabilities to the UI layer.

This demo is based on an early build of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1.

For some relevant team blogs check out:

Amit Chatterjee's Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee/

Mathew Aniyan's Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/mathew_aniyan/

10-4! Over and out!
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#May 6th @ 8:59 AM
JohnAskew
JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater
It's nice to see VS mature so well. Now if I could figure out how to acquire this version through my Micro-ISV Empower program...
#May 6th @ 10:21 AM
Dreadnaught
Dreadnaught
Respect mah authoritah!
Awesome. Definitely looking forward to having this functionality in the ol' tool bag.

In a completely unrelated matter, I'm curious whether the VS2010 IDE background will be customizable. I'm not a huge fan of the current shade of blue. If anyone has the inside scoop on that little tidbit, I'd be interested to know.
#May 6th @ 2:46 PM
Moemeka
Moemeka
Me

Nice video.  These 10-4 videos are cruel Sad.  Like watching someone play with a toy you want. You made sveral references to a Beta 1.  Can you give some details?  I was planning on installing it for my mom (being Mother's day and all).

#May 6th @ 11:50 PM
Hnidk
Hnidk
?
Watin currently has a lot of this for web app. obviously the biggest downfall is the recorder bit. i love how this approached as a single framework targeting all Windows/Web/WPF  with a recorder.

I really would love to see it done on a web app (with complex grid row counting, resolving ASP.NET control id's and so on)
#May 7th @ 1:48 AM
ajay555
ajay555

Will it allow recording the test on Web Apps having ActiveX control (e.g Office Web Components Spreasheet Control) where some data is inputted in specific cells and then saved. And after reloading the page checking for the updated data. And then allow this sequence to run for multiple sets of data.

#May 7th @ 11:23 AM
briankel
briankel
Beta 1 is coming "soon" Smiley The marketing team tells me I have to say "this quarter."

Maybe your mom will accept an IOU?
#May 8th @ 9:26 AM
briankel
briankel

Hi Ajay,

Good question. I checked with the product team and here is their response:

1.       We do support ActiveX at infrastructure level i.e. we enable scenarios where 3rd party could write plugins for ActiveX support and it will work seamless with our IE/FF support.

2.       We do support ActiveX written in VB6 (i.e. OCX) with standard caveat of app should have good accessibility.

3.       Most common use of ActiveX is Flash. We *don’t* support this.

4.       The specific ActiveX mentioned in q here was Office Web Component Spreadsheet.  This will *not* work – we have poor support of Excel/Word document areas even in standalone scenarios.

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