{"id":4943,"date":"2012-06-05T20:52:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T20:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/06\/05\/enabling-coded-ui-test-playback-logs-in-visual-studio-2012-release-candidate\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:59:21","slug":"enabling-coded-ui-test-playback-logs-in-visual-studio-2012-release-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/enabling-coded-ui-test-playback-logs-in-visual-studio-2012-release-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling Coded UI Test playback logs in Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Jason Zander\u2019s blog post: Announcing the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5<\/a> he showed a new Coded UI feature  -capturing playback logs. <\/p>\n

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Please note this blog post has been updated.  Please see: <\/p>\n

Enabling Tracing and HtmlLogger in Coded UI Test<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Unfortunately CodedUI doesn\u2019t do this by default and finding the logs isn\u2019t always obvious.   <\/p>\n

To enable CodedUI Test Playback logs you need to set some configuration settings in the file QTAgent32.exe.config<\/em><\/strong> to make this work.  This file can be found at: <\/p>\n

C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0Common7IDE <\/p>\n

The settings are: <\/p>\n

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<system.diagnostics>
   <switches><\/font>
<\/font>     <!– You must use integral values for "value".
          Use 0 for off, 1 for error, 2 for warn, 3 for info, and 4 for verbose. –><\/font>
     <add<\/font> name<\/font>="EqtTraceLevel" value<\/font>="4<\/font>" \/>
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<\/system.diagnostics><\/font>
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and:<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

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<appSettings> <\/p>\n

<appSettings<\/font>>
 <\/font><\/font><add key<\/font>="EnableHtmlLogger"<\/font> value<\/font>="true"\/>
<add key<\/font>="EnableSnapshotInfo"<\/font> value<\/font>="true"\/><\/font>
<add key<\/font>="StopTestRunCallTimeoutInSeconds" value="5"\/>
  <add key<\/font>="LogSizeLimitInMegs" value<\/font>="20"\/>
  <add key<\/font>="CreateTraceListener" value<\/font>="no"\/>
  <add key<\/font>="GetCollectorDataTimeout" value<\/font>="300"\/>
<\/appSettings<\/font>>
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Now when you run a codedUI Test (even successful ones with the trace level set to \u201cverbose\u201d) you will see there is an output link in the Test Explorer results<\/font><\/font> <\/p>\n

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\"image\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Which in turn will take you to the Test output containing the UITestActionLog.html<\/font><\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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-Which contains the CodeUI Test Log Jason showed in his blog.<\/p>\n

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