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Enable Remote Audio Capture to when Testing or Providing Feedback on Remote Machines

August 24, 2012 Aug 24, 2012 08/24/12
Kathryn Elliott
To record audio as part of a feedback or testing session on a remote machine that is running Microsoft Feedback Client, Test Runner, or Exploratory Testing window, you must configure audio redirection settings on the remote machine. You must also enable “record from this computer” when you connect to the remote machine. You can perform ...

Significance of Window Titles in Coded UI Test Playback

July 15, 2012 Jul 15, 2012 07/15/12
Tapas Sahoo [MSFT]
The control search in Coded UI Test playback is essentially a breadth first search. For extension plugins that have in-built search capability, the plugin writer can implement its own search logic. What typically remains the same is the way the search is done for the top level window of the application. Consider a top level window UI ...

DevExpress Releases DXperience 12.1 with Coded UI Support

June 8, 2012 Jun 8, 2012 06/8/12
Charles Sterling
It is no secret that it is our partners that help make Visual Studio the best development environment on the planet – and DXperience 12.1 from DevExpress ensures that this thought leadership and great experience will continue going forward.   As many developers already know DXperience tools address a wide range of software ...

Getting Started with Load Testing in Visual Studio 2012

June 4, 2012 Jun 4, 2012 06/4/12
Charles Sterling
Since the release of the Visual Studio 11 Beta I have had several questions about load testing in Visual Studio.  All of the questions to date have been around getting started… Unlike Visual Studio 2010 that had Test > New Test > Load Test on the menu you have to create a new project of one of the three Test projects.  &...

Coded UI Test – New Extensibility QFE

May 24, 2012 May 24, 2012 05/24/12
Shubhra Maji MSFT
Coded UI Test team has developed an extension model for enabling custom control identification, record and playback of automation tests using Coded UI Test. This hotfix will be available on top of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). The experience while writing a new plugin for custom controls has now become much simpler ...

Testing Mobile devices with Visual Studio using SeeTest plugin

May 9, 2012 May 9, 2012 05/9/12
Charles Sterling
While at StarEast I met some really great partners.  One that caught my eye was Experitest with their SeeTestTM  plugin for Visual Studio.  The reason I found them so interesting is most Mobile Testing solutions force you to make a decision do you put interrupts in at the OS level (potentially masking real problems, compromising...

Announcing Keyword-Driving Testing Integration from LogiGear

April 19, 2012 Apr 19, 2012 04/19/12
Charles Sterling
April 18th LogiGear gave the first look at their eagerly sought product, TestArchitect™ for Visual Studio®.  Tightly integrated with Visual Studio 11, LogiGear’s flagship product TestArchitect empowers users to quickly and effortlessly create as well as maintain very large volume of test cases within Microsoft Visual Studio by ...