CodedUI with Marcel de Vries
Carl and Richard talk to Marcel de Vries about CodedUI - the test functionality built into Visual Studio that nobody knows about. CodedUI tests are tests built to automatically operate your UI so that you can test your application top-to-bottom, no short cuts. Marcel talks about how CodedUI tests are actually built using a test recorder and then tweaking the tests to increase coverage. You can build tables of data to use for entry to challenge boundary testing, add additional assertions and validations - it's very clever! If you own Visual Studio 2013, you need to check this out!
Guests:
Marcel de Vries
As the co-founder and CTO of Xpirit, Marcel spends most of his time looking at how new emerging technologies, a shift in mindset and a new way of work, can help organizations get software in production faster. Helping organizations transform towards a high speed, innovative and productive organization has become his passion. Marcel loves to learn new technologies and teach others what he learned. Besides his work as CTO Marcel also works as a consultant in the field of Application Lifecycle Management, Cloud/Web scale application architectures and Cross platform Enterprise Mobile app development with Xamarin.
Marcel is a frequent speaker at industry conferences like Microsoft TechDays, Visual Studio Live!, Devintersection, Techorama . Marcel host several meetups in his region on Microsoft Azure, Xamarin and ALM. In his spare time he is also an authors of online courses at Pluralsight. Marcel is awarded by Microsoft the Microsoft ALM MVP award for 10 years in a Row and is a Microsoft Regional Director since 2008.
Links:
- WPF Composites http://wpfcomposites.codeplex.com/
- Verifying Code by Using UI Automation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd286726.aspx
- Coded UI Test Enhanced Framework http://cuite.codeplex.com/
- Experitest http://experitest.com/
- Page Objects https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/PageObjects
- froglogic http://www.froglogic.com/