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Introduction To Coded UI

In this article, we will give introduction of Microsoft coded UI framework.

What Is Coded UI?

Coded UI is a framework created by Microsoft for automating UI testing.

Software Requirement

Following table provides you the compatibility of coded UI and visual studio

Visual studio version	Visual studio subversion
Visual studio 2012	Visual studio ultimate and visual studio premium
Visual studio 2013	Visual studio ultimate and visual studio premium
Visual studio 2015	Visual studio premium

Create Your First Project

First, create a new test project. Please follow these steps

Open visual studio
Go to File – New – Project..
A pop up window appears to select the project type.
Select the project type as ‘Coded UI Test Project’ as shown in figure below

Picture showing selecting the Coded UI Test Project from the visual studio installed templates

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Enter project name and click on Ok.

Once the project is created you will get the following message

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Click on the cancel for now. We will talk about this later.

If you see the project structure in the solution explorer window, you will see a file ‘CodedUITest1.cs’ is created. See the figure below

Picture showing the project structure of the coded UI project in the solution explorer

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Once we double click on the file to open it, we will see the following code

Picture showing the .net code of your first coded UI project

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It is important to note 2 attributes

CodedUITest – It means that the class ‘CodedUITest1’ is a coded UI test class and all the test methods will come under it.
TestMethod – Automated test cases will be written in this method.

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Saturday, October 14, 2017

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