CodedUI – Fluentbytes

Last week I presented two talks at Devintersection europe. My first talk was about Modern Application architectures and you can find the pdf of the deck here

the second session was on Cross browser testing of web applications using CodedUI. I also have the pdf of the deck available here

And here are the two demo’s I showed to build maintainable test automation using Page Objects and the concept of DAMP testing (Descriptive And Meaningful Phrases).

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Also if you want to learn more about CodedUI, you can also watch one of my two courses I build for Pluralsight here:Test Automation with CodedUI Pluralsight which explains in detail all that can be done with CodedUI and Testing Web Applications with CodedUI Pluralsight which is focused on testing web applications.

Hope this helps!

This week I got a request on twitter how to work with CodedUI for windows forms and if I had any example. A couple of weeks ago, during a deep dive session we did in Sweden, I got more or less the same question on how can I access my controls when using windows forms, because we are having trouble getting CodedUI to work for us. So therefore I thought it would be a good idea to create a simple sample and describe in a bit more detail how to approach this.

If you have looked at my PluralSight courses or attended one of the training events where I teach CodedUI, you might know that I am trying to convince everyone to never use the CodedUI test recorder, since the way it tries to locate controls and the way it saves the information in the recording file is a nightmare to maintain.

So when investigating how we can locate controls in windows forms in a maintainable way I also avoid the recorder and just use the CodedUI object model to find the controls I need. So let’s first dive into how to find controls and then look at how to write maintainable UI Automation code.

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Devintersection sessions

Maintainable Test automation for Winforms using CodedUI