Visual Studio 2010 RC – What’s new in Coded UI Test
Friday, April 2nd, 2010The Release Candidate (RC) version of Visual Studio 2010 has been released by Microsoft and is now available for download. From a tester’s point of view, Visual Studio 2010 Beta is a revolutionary step from Microsoft with a bunch of new stuff in Coded UI test for automation testers.
Visual Studio 2010 RC made some significant improvements of which I chose following:
Pause playback to wait for certain event
This capability was not available in VS 2010 Beta 2 and it was noticeably lacking. For example, it was impossible to wait for the form, message, progress bar to disappear etc.
This was accomplished with a modification of the UITestControl class. In the RC, you can use the appropriate UITestControl methods from the list.
1. WaitForControlReady() – This waits for the control to be ready to accept mouse/keyboard input.
2. WaitForControlEnabled() – This waits for the control to be enabled.
3. WaitForControlExist() – This waits for the control to exist on the UI.
4. WaitForControlNotExist() – This waits until the control ceases to exist on the UI.
5. WaitForControlPropertyEqual(string propertyName, object propertyValue) – This waits for the specified property of the control to have the given value.
6. WaitForControlPropertyNotEqual(string propertyName, object propertyValue) – This waits for the specified property of the control to not have the given value.
7. WaitForControlCondition(Predicate conditionEvaluator) – This waits until the specified predicate returns true.