Coded UI tests - cannot resolve symbol UITesting

I'm trying to use the assemblies like this in a VS2012 project:

using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension;

However I get a bunch of red in my tests:

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I can build and run locally even with this red, but I'd like to get this stuff resolving if possible. My build machine rejects this with the following errors:

 DashboardTest.cs (7): The type or namespace name 'UITesting' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
 DashboardTest.cs (9): The type or namespace name 'UITest' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
 UIMap.cs (9): The type or namespace name 'UITest' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
 UIMap.cs (10): The type or namespace name 'UITesting' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
 UIMap.Designer.cs (19): The type or namespace name 'UITest' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
 UIMap.Designer.cs (20): The type or namespace name 'UITesting' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
 UIMap.Designer.cs (132): The type or namespace name 'BrowserWindow' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
 DashboardTest.cs (10): The type or namespace name 'UITesting' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
 UIMap.cs (12): The type or namespace name 'UITesting' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
 UIMap.cs (13): The type or namespace name 'UITesting' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
 UIMap.Designer.cs (22): The type or namespace name 'UITesting' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
 UIMap.Designer.cs (23): The type or namespace name 'UITesting' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools' (are you missing an assembly reference?)
 DashboardTest.cs (18): The type or namespace name 'CodedUITest' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
 DashboardTest.cs (18): The type or namespace name 'CodedUITestAttribute' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Any tips? All references in my test project are set to copy local = true.

UPDATE - I got the references working locally by adding a reference to visualStudio.TestTools.UITesting, but the CodedUITest attribute is still red and the build still fails with the same errors.

Upvotes: 8

Answers (4)

George Wilson

Reputation: 39

I had a similar problem but in my case I wanted to use a NuGet called CodedUIDependencies and VS kept trying to use the dlls from Program Files. I finally figured out that the project had a setting in the .csproj that was forcing it to use these files.

<IsCodedUITest>True</IsCodedUITest>

By changing this to False I could reinstall my Nuget and VS would finally reference the desired dlls.

Upvotes: 0

Ryan Mathewson

Reputation: 151

In VS2017 I had to use the Visual Studio Installer to install the "Coded UI Test" component on my build server. It is found on the "Individual Components" tab under the "Debugging and Testing" section.

Upvotes: 5