This training seminar demonstrates how to record tests run against various types of application user interfaces using Microsoft Visual Studio’s Coded UI Tests and how to replay them at any time. Additionally, we explore how to embed validations, either simple or elaborate, to ensure your application is producing the correct results. Learn how to improve the quality of your applications by having a repeatable set of Microsoft Coded UI Tests available to ensure defects don’t go unnoticed!

1. Getting Started with Coded UI Testing:
Building Your First Automated Test
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2. Speaker Bio
Anna Russo
Sr. ALM Consultant
• TFS/ALM is what I do!
• Work for Imaginet since 2008
• ALM MVP
• Testing Background
• In my free time:
– Cycling in Southern California
– Blogging
– Volunteer Testing Tools on Visual Studio Gallery

3. Agenda
• Coded UI Test Overview
• Recording Coded UI
Tests
• Adding Test Validation
• Writing your own code
• Best Practices

4. Coded UI Test Tools
• Used to automate testing from the user interface
• Test development/maintenance in Visual Studio
• Tools provided to improve creation and maintenance
of Coded UI tests
• Can author and maintain tests without writing code or
can extend tests using .NET
• Can run within Visual Studio or through automation
(e.g., a build)
Test development and maintenance from within
Visual Studio

5. Supported Platforms
• Supported (2012 RTM)
– Windows Forms 2.0+ • Partially Supported
– WPF 3.5+ – MFC
– SharePoint – Dynamix (Ax) 2012 Client
– Internet Explorer 8.0, 9.0 – Citrix / Terminal Services
– Internet Explorer 10.0 – PowerBuilder
(Desktop)
– Dynamix CRM web client • Unsupported
– Internet Explorer < 8.0
• Supported (2012 Update 1) – Silverlight
– Google Chrome 21+ – Flash/Java
– Firefox 15+ – SAP
– Microsoft Office
• Unsupported but may work – Apple Safari
– Windows Win32 – Opera

6. Third-Party Support

7. Agenda
• Coded UI Test Overview
• Recording Coded UI
Tests
• Adding Test Validation
• Writing your own code
• Best Practices

8. Creating Coded UI Tests
Action Recording
from Manual Tests
Visual Studio
Test Builder Coded UI Test
Visual Studio
(Hand Coded)

9. Option 1: Based on Existing Tests
Define Define Capture Automate
Rqts Tests Tests Tests
• Using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)…
– Analyst defines requirements
– Tester defines manual test cases for the requirement
– Tester runs test cases and records the steps
• As needed, “Automation Tester” converts recorded
steps into a Coded UI Test

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11. Option 2: Using the Coded UI Test Builder
• Approach:
– Click the record button
– Perform the steps in your test target
– Click the generate code button
– Repeat to generate more methods for the test
– Show recorded steps to delete missteps

12. DEMONSTRATION
• Converting Test Cases
• Recording tests with the
Coded UI Test Builder

13. Option 3: Author Tests using .NET
• Hand-code in .NET, without any additional assistance
• Utilize one of the Coded UI-based community frameworks:
– CUITe (Coded UI Test Enhanced)
• Authored by Microsoft employees but not a „product‟
• Uses its own tooling to maintain a separate UI object repository
• Improves code maintainability
• Browser-based only
• Currently only supported on Visual Studio 2010
• Maintained on CodePlex:
http://cuite.codeplex.com/
– Code First Coded UI
• Led by Microsoft employees but not a „product‟
• Pure code – does not use an object repository
• Installable via NuGet
• Uses Scaffolding approach to generate tests
• Browser-based only
• Currently only supported on Visual Studio 2010
• Maintained on CodePlex:
http://codeduicodefirst.codeplex.com/

14. Agenda
• Coded UI Test Overview
• Recording Coded UI Tests
• Adding Test Validation
• Writing your own code
• Best Practices

15. Validation
• Use the Coded UI Test Builder
to add assertions
• Drag the crosshairs to a target
control
• Bundle assertions into
methods called from the test Click to add
assertion
Select a
property
Generate a method
to record the
assertion(s)

16. DEMONSTRATION
• Adding Assertions
(Verification/Validation)

17. Agenda
• Coded UI Test Overview
• Recording Coded UI Tests
• Adding Test Validation
• Writing your own code
• Best Practices and
References

18. The Primary Components
• Test Class (e.g., MyTest.cs)
– A .NET Coded UI Test class containing one or more Test
Methods.
• Test Method
– An individual automated test case inside a Test Class.
• Recorded Method
– Code which actually automates the UI and performs
assertions. (Do not change this code!)
• UIMap
– An XML designer file and related generated classes containing
the recorded methods.

19. Overriding Generated Properties
[TestMethod]
public void CodedUITestMethod1()
{
this.UIMap.OpenCalc();
this.UIMap.AddThreeAndTwo();
this.UIMap.VerifySumExpectedValues.UITxtDisplayEditText = "5";
this.UIMap.VerifySum();
this.UIMap.CloseCalc();
}
Hand-coded to change the
“Recorded Methods” expected value for the VerifySum
created using the UI Test recorded method. There are many
Builder. other overrides made available to
you in the generated code.

20. The API
Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestingTools.UITesting:
• UITestControl
• Keyboard
– SendKeys
• Mouse
• Playback.PlaybackSettings…
– DelayBetweenActions
– MatchExactHierarchy
– SearchInMinimizedWindows
– SearchTimeout
– ThinkTimeMultiplier
– WaitForReadyLevel
– WaitForReadyTimeout

21. DEMONSTRATION
• UIMap Editor

22. Agenda
• Coded UI Test Overview
• Recording Coded UI Tests
• Adding Test Validation
• Writing your own code
• Best Practices

23. Best Practices
• Create each test case as a sequence of Recorded Methods.
• Use multiple UI Maps to separate areas o the application.
• Use meaningful test method names.
• Try to limit the length of each recorded method to less
than 10 actions.
• Use meaningful UI control names in the application under
test.
• Do not edit the UIMap.Designer.cs file.
• Use the Coded UI Test Builder and UI Control Locator
whenever possible.

24. Summary
• Coded UI Test Overview
• Recording Coded UI Tests
• Adding Test Validation
• Writing your own code
• Best Practices

25. Questions?

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