Comment Feed for 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing (10-4 on Channel 9)

Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

alan.pieroway — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:03:52 GMT

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.

Re: Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Brian Keller — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:26:20 GMT

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! :-)

Re: Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

2010 Fan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:42:53 GMT

Yes it does. IT is through Coded UI testing.

Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

2010 Fan — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:11:28 GMT

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 ?

Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

KirillOsenkov — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:55:13 GMT

Awesome video! Fantastic job!

Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Farida Salman — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:28:38 GMT

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

Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Amit Kulkarni — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:32:11 GMT

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...)?

Re: Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Brian Keller — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:56:38 GMT

Yep. Here's one way, there are others as well:

http://blogs.msdn.com/mathew_aniyan/archive/2009/03/03/distributed-coded-ui-tests.aspx

Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

pkz — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:14:31 GMT

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

Re: Re: Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Ajay Singh — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:25:18 GMT

Thanks for the update Brian.

Re: Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Brian Keller — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:26:23 GMT

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 3^rd 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.

Re: Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Brian Keller — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:23:35 GMT

Beta 1 is coming "soon" :-) The marketing team tells me I have to say "this quarter."

Maybe your mom will accept an IOU?

Re: Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Brian Keller — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:22:43 GMT

Oh yeah, there will be lots of extensibility options! For just a taste see http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-5-Code-Focused-in-Visual-Studio-2010/

Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Ajay Singh — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:48:23 GMT

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.

Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Hnidk — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:50:52 GMT

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)

Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Edward Moemeka — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:46:08 GMT

Nice video. These 10-4 videos are cruel :-(. 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).

Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

Nate Greenwood — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:21:36 GMT

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.

Re: 10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing

JohnAskew — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:59:06 GMT

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...