10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Posted By: Brian Keller | May 6th @ 6:57 AM | 45,939 Views | 18 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 20th @ 1:14 PM
pkz
pkz

Will there be a way to run Functional Tests on remote PCs (i.e., not a dev or build machine) or VMs?

#May 24th @ 11:32 PM
Amit Kulkarni
Amit Kulkarni

Hey, it was really nice to see UI test automation inbuilt in VS2010. I was waiting for this release for quiet long.

Does it support test automation of Winform and legacy applications (VB, MFC etc...)?

#Jun 28th @ 8:28 PM
imfarida
imfarida

Nice demo.  I hope there would be another Episode for Functional UI testing covering the matter in more detail

#Oct 5th @ 2:55 PM
KirillOsenkov
KirillOsenkov

Awesome video! Fantastic job!

#Oct 15th @ 2:11 PM
2010 Fan
2010 Fan

Once i have a set of Coded UI tests defined, how do I run the tests on machines that dont have visual studio. Usually we like to test our apps on different version of windows, 32 bit and 64 bit.

 

Currently we publish our dlls(application and Nunit) on a test machine and use cruisecontrol to trigger the msbuild script(consisting of MSTasks) to be executed without the need for Visual studio on that machine. Is a similar setup possible ?

#Oct 16th @ 8:42 AM
2010 Fan
2010 Fan

Yes it does. IT is through Coded UI testing.

#Oct 30th @ 8:26 PM
briankel
briankel

Sorry for the delay I just noticed your question. Yes you can do this using the build controller/build agent model we support in 2010. It allows you to orchestrate workflows where your tests get pushed out to agent machines which in turn run the tests and then report back to a controller, which then publishes the data to TFS. It's really sweet once you set it up and start seeing all of your machines running tests automatically without intervention! Smiley

#Nov 18th @ 11:03 AM
alan.pieroway
alan.pieroway

any chance we'll get an updated video tutiorial for Beta 2 where things have changed drastically, in terms of how the code is compartmentilzed.  it would certainly lower my learning curve. thanks.

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