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andrepm
andrepm

Reputation: 877

Can't find controls that don't have enough defined properties in Coded UI

This may be a noobish question, but in my records in Coded UI Tests, I have recorded a lot of controls that don't have enough defined properties to be found in playback.

For exemple:

public HtmlEdit UIItemEdit
{
    get
    {
        if ((this.mUIItemEdit == null))
        {
            this.mUIItemEdit = new HtmlEdit(this);
            #region Search Criteria
            this.mUIItemEdit.SearchProperties[HtmlEdit.PropertyNames.Id] = null;
            this.mUIItemEdit.SearchProperties[HtmlEdit.PropertyNames.Name] = null;
            this.mUIItemEdit.SearchProperties[HtmlEdit.PropertyNames.LabeledBy] = null;
            this.mUIItemEdit.SearchProperties[HtmlEdit.PropertyNames.Type] = "SINGLELINE";
            this.mUIItemEdit.FilterProperties[HtmlEdit.PropertyNames.Title] = null;
            this.mUIItemEdit.FilterProperties[HtmlEdit.PropertyNames.Class] = null;
            this.mUIItemEdit.FilterProperties[HtmlEdit.PropertyNames.ControlDefinition] = "type=\"text\" value=\"\"";
            this.mUIItemEdit.FilterProperties[HtmlEdit.PropertyNames.TagInstance] = "5";
            this.mUIItemEdit.WindowTitles.Add("http://cms.home.psafe.com/");
            #endregion
        }
        return this.mUIItemEdit;
    }

In this post, I learned about SearchProperties, but it doesn't look to be an appropriate solution in this case.

Is there any other way to wrap these controls properly?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1381

Answers (2)

Thomas Bouman
Thomas Bouman

Reputation: 608

You have two options:

  1. Try crowcoder's solution of searching in the parent. The problem with this solution is when you move a control around you're going to be changing code a lot.

  2. Add an Id property to all your controls in the HTML, this will make your Coded UI more robust and responsive to changes in the UI.

Upvotes: 1

Crowcoder
Crowcoder

Reputation: 11514

You might be able to find it if its containing element can be found. You can use the containing element to scope the search. So, find that element's parent, then find an input type=text within it:

var container = new HtmlControl(bw); //where bw is the browser window 
HtmlDiv parentDiv = new HtmlDiv(container);
parentDiv.SearchProperties[HtmlDiv.PropertyNames.Id] = "theIdOfYourDiv";

HtmlEdit edt = new HtmlEdit(parentDiv); //the search scope is narrowed down to the div only. This may be enough to find your control with the search property.
edt.SearchProperties[HtmlEdit.PropertyNames.Type] = "SINGLELINE";

Upvotes: 1

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