Thursday, February 03, 2011

Third-Party Support for Visual Studio Coded UI Testing

If you have been using Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Test Manager for automated UI testing, you may have experienced some issues with building the Coded UI tests if your application is using third-party components.  It has been quite frustrating having been to several customer sites over the past year and running into this issue.  My suggestion for anyone that has run into these issues is to open a support case with the component vendor and request that they add the necessary accessibility support to their component vendors.  This will allow each of them to track the interest for this type of support in their products and then also provide a way to inform you whenever it is supported.

There doesn’t seem to be a definitive list of the third-party controls that do or don’t support Coded UI testing at the moment.  I have attempted to gather all of the information to provide a one-stop shop for this support.  I’ll include links to updates, add-ons, etc. as I receive them.

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