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Significance of Window Titles in Coded UI Test Playback
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 object such as <TopLevelWindow ControlType="Window" Id="UICalculatorWindow" FriendlyName="Calculator" SpecialControlType="None" SessionId="36635974"> <TechnologyName>MSAA</Te...
Keyword Driven Testing Webcast July 18th with Visual Studio and LogiGear by Hans Buwalda
In the last 6 months, I have been able to spend some time with one of the pioneers in the keyword and Data-driven Testing space, Hans Buwalda. While at Star East Hans agreed to do a MSDN Webcast on this exciting topic – So naturally I jumped on the opportunity! Session Details: Starts: July-18-12 10:00 AM Time zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) Duration: 1 hour(s) Attendee Registration URL: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032519194&Culture=en-CA Session Abstract:It's now possible to achieve a high level of automation efficienc...
Using the IntelliTrace Standalone Collector Remotely
This post pertains to the IntelliTrace Standalone Collector, a new feature associated with Visual Studio 2012. The Standalone Collector allows you to collect IntelliTrace logging information on one machine (e.g. a production server) and analyze the log on another machine (e.g. the dev machine in your office). This post will specifically provide some example scripts that may be helpful if you want to collect IntelliTrace information on your server via a remote PowerShell session. General information about IntelliTrace collection with the Standalone Collector can be found here (MSDN), or you can w...
Javascript Unit Tests on Team Foundation Service with Chutzpah
Significant investments were made in Visual Studio 2012 Unit Testing to make it extensible. A number of frameworks and test runners have built adapters for Visual Studio. Peter Provost maintains a list of Plugins here. For Javascript Unit Testing in Visual Studio, Matthew Mannela has released Chutzpah, an open source Javascript Test Runner. Chutzpah has a test adapter for Visual Studio 2012. With this adapter, you can run QUnit & Jasmine tests in Visual Studio. To run javascript unit tests in Visual Studio Unit Test Explorer, you just need to install the Chutzpah Test Adapter for Visual Studio 2012 from ...
UI Test Plugin for Silverlight Applications
Using the Microsoft Visual Studio UI Test plugin for Silverlight, you can create Coded UI Tests or action recordings for Silverlight applications. Action recordings let you fast forward through steps in a manual test using Microsoft Test Manager. Coded UI Tests let you record actions, generate code and play back user interface tests using Microsoft Visual Studio.This plugin supports Silverlight 4 & 5 applications hosted in Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 & 10. It requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 RC.A few members of the product team got together and built this plugin as an off-hours project. It is not...
Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guide – Localised for Japan
The Japanese community, under the mentorship of Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), have localised the Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guide. Release notes Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), Takaho Yamaguchi (山口 孝穂), Masashi Fujiwara (藤原 祐之), localized and reviewed the Quick Reference Guidance for the Japanese communities, based on http://vsarquickguide.codeplex.com/releases/view/52402. The Japanese guidance is available in AllGuides and Everything packages. The AllGuides package contains guidances in PDF file format, while the Everything package contains all files in PDF and Office 2007 file formats, including files necessary for localizati...
Visual Studio 2010 Branching Guide – Localized for Japan
The Japanese community, under the mentorship of Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), have localised the Visual Studio 2010 Branching Guide. Release notes Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), Takaho Yamaguchi (山口 孝穂), Hirokazu Higashino (東野 紘和), localized and reviewed the Branching Guidance for the Japanese communities, based on http://vsarbranchingguide.codeplex.com/releases/view/38849. The Japanese guidance is available in AllGuides and Everything packages. The AllGuides package contains guidances in PDF file format, while the Everything package contains all files in PDF and Office 2007 file formats, including HOL Lab files.
Installing the TFS Plug-in through the Eclipse Marketplace
Now-a-days most versions of Eclipse come bundled with the Eclipse Marketplace Client which is, by far, the easiest way to find and install new plug-ins into Eclipse. This includes Team Explorer Everywhere, the TFS Plug-in for Eclipse. Anyone can browse and search for Eclipse plug-ins by visiting the Eclipse Marketplace web site, where you can also find the Eclipse update sites (if available) to install the plug-in. But if you have the Eclipse Marketplace Client installed you can also browse, search and install from Eclipse. To see if you have the Eclipse Marketplace Client installed, go to Help and look for ...
Visual Studio 2012 RC – What’s new in Code Coverage
As product development adapts to the demands of continuous delivery models and agile methodologies, the developer is being entrusted with bringing in product changes with a higher quality bar. Besides strengthening processes to include quality checkpoints like gated check-ins, rolling builds and other regression checks, the developer can provide a higher degree of confidence in their code by ensuring that all product code changes are accompanied by a strong suite of unit tests. Test Driven Development (TDD) is one excellent step towards this. Since unit tests are owned and maintained by the developers, the...