UI Automation Verify (UIA Verify) Test Automation Framework

New Post: Why it cannot identify the some of the controls which Inspect could identify?

ppstay — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 06:58:02 GMT

I have .net client app that has a treeview, while Inspect.exe could identify every node but UIA Verify doesn't recognize the treeview at all. Are they using different techniques?

New Post: TreeWalker cant see element, but UIA Verify can. Help please!

Dewald — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:51:24 GMT

I'm trying to parse my UI using a TreeWalker. My UI consists mainly out of DevExpress components.

I have a single pane which contain one child pane and several child buttons. They're all on the same level so I suppose they are siblings. When I use the TreeWalker to parse the elements, I can only 'see' the pane - never the buttons.

What bugs me is when I use UIA Verify and select one of the buttons, it manages to build and draw the hierarchy. Then, if I select controls, via the context menu "Go to sibling", I can easily jump between the child pane and other child buttons.

I've tried all different versions of the TreeWalker e.g. Control and Raw, yet I end up with the same results - nothing - it only sees the child pane.

Can someone perhaps give me a high level overview of how UIA Verify is able to build up its hierarchy and still show (and manage to navigate between) all components? Why can't I replicate that in code?

Many thanks

New Post: Visual UIAVerify cannot compile+ run from VS 2008

jasonking — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:22:46 GMT

From what I can tell, looking at the Visual UIA Verify (2.0) source code, it was compiled with .Net 3.5, so perhaps check that you have installed .Net 3.5 Framework installed on your host machine. We had a couple of XP and 2003 machines here that wouldn't run the tool, but after doing a Windows Update and ensuring that .Net 3.5 was installed, it resolved the issue.

I haven't spent time trying to confirm the specific package, as for the machines we were having trouble with, I ended up just pulling all critical Windows Updates. I had tried doing it step by step to see if I could find which one, but after messing with .Net 4.0, and .Net 2.0 frameworks, and a variety of VC++ runtimes, I ended up giving up, and just pulling all updates. Didn't have the time to trace the specific dependency.

New Post: Error while installing UIA Verify

jasonking — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:18:29 GMT

With machines where I have observed this error, it has generally been resolved by running the Windows Update for that machine. I think Visual UIA Verofy requires the .Net 3.5 Framework, but I haven't tinkered with it enough to be sure. But I've found that if you simply do a full Windows Update and pull all the critical items, then it'll resolve your issue.

Reviewed: UIA Verify 2.0 (Dec 18, 2012)

jasonking — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:10:50 GMT

Rated 2 Stars (out of 5) - There are some useful touches added, such as the layout of panes to view available patterns and to see the AutomationID inline with the Control Type and Accessibility Name. But this tool is buggy. It crashes periodically, even if I am careful that the host UI isn't having any changing elements. It's sporadically exit out with exceptions. I'd recommend Microsoft's Inspect Objects instead.

Source code checked in, #94877

Project Collection Service Accounts — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:38:35 GMT

Upgrade: New Version of LabDefaultTemplate.xaml. To upgrade your build definitions, please visit the following link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=254563

Source code checked in, #94876

Project Collection Service Accounts — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:31:06 GMT

Checked in by server upgrade

New Post: UIA Verify is a great library / tool

nagappanal — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:21:32 GMT

Hello,

Based on this tool, I have created an automation tool https://github.com/ldtp/winldtp you can write tests in Python scripting language. API's are compatible with http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/ which works on Linux / Solaris platform. This can be extended to other scripting language or loaded into your project.

Microsoft have done a great job, without this library its not possible. Have verified this test's on Windows XP SP3/ Windows 7 SP1/ Windows 8 development version.

To test the setup you can http://download.freedesktop.org/ldtp/winldtp-latest/WinLDTP.msi

Thanks

New Post: Error while installing UIA Verify

Gopi2688 — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:10:10 GMT

While runthe VisualUIAVerify.exe in my XP-SP3 i got following error message "The type initialize for 'System.Windows.Automation.AutomationElement' threw an exception".Anyone pls help me..

Created Issue: Windows Security dialog is not visible [17330]

nagappanal — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:43:51 GMT

This is a great tool ! During automation, I found that Windows Security dialog is not visible through this tool.

Note: This issue happens only on Windows 8 dev build, but perfectly works on Windows XP/7

Need additional info, please let me know.

Thanks

New Post: Visual UIAVerify cannot compile+ run from VS 2008

LucID — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:45:45 GMT

Getting the same error on Windows XP SP3 with all updates.

Tried with /noclientsideprovider and got same error.

Please, help!

New Post: Visual UIAVerify cannot compile+ run from VS 2008

EazyCoder — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:18:33 GMT

I also have this problem running visualUIAVerify.exe from the folder directly from my flash drive on a 64 bit XP install.

The system is up to date and has updated to .Net 4.0

I tried to start it up with the /noclientsideprovider in case that would help, but still couldn't get it to run on that machine.

Anyone have alternatives I could try to get it to run?

New Post: Problem with discovering objects - Focus Tracking mechanizm as a solution

ruppertus — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:32:11 GMT

Hi, I'm testing very old application written in Borland C++. I'm trying to prepare automated tests for it based on open solutions. I chose White project which bases on UI Automation libraries as I want to join my tests with nUnit and Hudson. Generally I don't have problem with recognizing objects but when I try to recognize content inside the tab contained in Tab Panel or try to see MenuItems of Menu bar then UI Automation/UI Verify works wired. When I run UI Verify (the previous version because the new one doesn't work on my box) I see that objects can be 'catch' (noticed) only then when I set 'Focus tracking' option and click on target object or change the keyboard cursor on it. Otherwise it's impossible to find them. Tab tab = window.Get<Tab>(); ITabPage tabPage = tab.SelectedTab; AutomationElementCollection newCol = tabPage.AutomationElement.FindAll(TreeScope.Descendants, Condition.TrueCondition); window.Get<Button>("buttonName"); UI Verifyier can show me children of my 'tab' panel. Can you please help me to describe how the mechnizm of tracking is implemented because I'm interested to integrate it/create similar solution in my project.

New Post: Visual UIAVerify cannot compile+ run from VS 2008

lazar — Tue, 24 May 2011 06:18:46 GMT

winXP

I downloaded the UI verify

and tried to run it from VS 2008 but got an error compile :

the type initializer for system.window.automation.automationelement threw an exception

how I can resolve this problem ?

when I run directly from VisualUIAVerify.exe

got same error as above

any help will be appreciated

rgrds

lazar

New Post: Cannot get data point label text via UI Automation API

kevinku1983 — Tue, 24 May 2011 01:59:18 GMT

I create a chart in winform via VS 2010 C# on Win7 and want to automated test the chart such as get the data from the chart.

First, I use UIAVerify tool to get the automation element. It could get all automation elements' information, such as chart's data point label. But I cannot get the data poine label automation element programmatically with .Net UIA library.

How could I get the automation element like UIAVerify? I found the AutomationElement in UIAVerify has more propertoes than the one in UIAutomationClient.dll.

Regards,

Kevin

Source code checked in, #70786

UIAutomationTeam — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:52:58 GMT

Check-in for UIA Verify 2.0 which is based on COM API for UI Automation.

Updated Release: UIA Verify 2.0 (Mar 22, 2011)

UIAutomationTeam — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:02:11 GMT

Release Notes:

We are excited to release the new version "UIAVerify 2.0" which is based on COM API for UI Automation.

This version uses UIA COM-to-.NET wrapper to invoke the UIA COM APIs.

Known Issues that can cause test failures in the UIA Verify 2.0 release
There are few UIA MSAA proxy 'by-design' changes that might trigger failures in few test cases. These issues affect only win32 common controls. Unwanted failures can be suppressed using 'FilterFiles' (Menu: Tests->Filter Known Problems)

1. UIA elements that represent menu items do not have the Accelerator key property in native UIA.
2. 'CanSelectMultiple' property of SelectionPattern is false for Multi Select list box controls.
3. SetFocus doesn't return InvalidOperation error when 'IsKeyboardFocusable' property is false.
4. The 'Name' property of the Spinner controls is always ‘null’ in native UIA.
5. 'LabeledBy' property is not found on few of the controls (Combo Box, Tree View, Tab, Progress Bar controls etc).
6. Group controls support ExpandCollapse pattern but the expand collapse pattern events are not fired.
7. Managed UIA support toggle pattern on menu items which might be missing in native UIA.
8. List control is not tied to the parent Combo Box unless the list control is expanded. Hence unexpanded Combo Box will not expose Selection pattern.

Installation instructions:
To start, unzip the file and run VisualUIAVerify.exe. Please refer to the document on 'How to use UIA Verify' to investigate errors, suppress failures using filter files , and create automated test cases for regression testing.

Thanks,

~The UIAutomation Team

Released: UIA Verify 2.0 (Mar 22, 2011)

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:02:11 GMT

Updated Release: UIA Verify 2.0 (Mar 22, 2011)

UIAutomationTeam — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:53:17 GMT

Release Notes:

We are excited to release the new version "UIAVerify 2.0" which is based on COM API for UI Automation stack.

This version uses UIA COM-to-.NET wrapper to invoke the UIA COM APIs.

Known Issues that can cause test failures in the UIA Verify 2.0 release
There are few UIA MSAA proxy 'by-design' changes that might trigger failures in few test cases. These issues affect only win32 common controls. Unwanted failures can be suppressed using 'FilterFiles' (Menu: Tests->Filter Known Problems)

1. UIA elements that represent menu items do not have the Accelerator key property in native UIA.
2. 'CanSelectMultiple' property of SelectionPattern is false for Multi Select list box controls.
3. SetFocus doesn't return InvalidOperation error when 'IsKeyboardFocusable' property is false.
4. The 'Name' property of the Spinner controls is always ‘null’ in native UIA.
5. 'LabeledBy' property is not found on few of the controls (Combo Box, Tree View, Tab, Progress Bar controls etc).
6. Group controls support ExpandCollapse pattern but the expand collapse pattern events are not fired.
7. Managed UIA support toggle pattern on menu items which might be missing in native UIA.
8. List control is not tied to the parent Combo Box unless the list control is expanded. Hence unexpanded Combo Box will not expose Selection pattern.

Installation instructions:
To start, unzip the file and run VisualUIAVerify.exe. Please refer to the document on 'How to use UIA Verify' to investigate errors, suppress failures using filter files , and create automated test cases for regression testing.

Thanks,

~The UIAutomation Team

Released: UIA Verify 2.0 (Mar 22, 2011)

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:53:17 GMT