In Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft has added the Coded UI Test.

Back to history:

In Visual Studio 2005 Microsoft presented the Tester Edition, it contained the following parts:

1. Web Test Automation Test
2. Performance Test
3. Unit Test
4. Something that should have been a Manual Test, it was word or text documents contained the Test Cases. Practically no one used it.

In Visual Studio 2008 tester edition no significant changes has been made.

In Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft added more parts to the Tester Edition and created a new tool for the Tester called Microsoft Test and Lab Management (MTLM).

I will not get into all the new functionality added to Team System 2010 but I will list the main parts:

1. Web
2. Web Test Automation Test
3. Performance Test
4. Unit Test
5. Test Cases management
6. Manual tests
7. Coded UI Tests
8. Lab Management

In the following 3 posts of the user guide  I will focus on the main tasks using the Coded UI Test, best practices with the tool and with automation tests in general.

These are the Blog Posts subjects:

1. Create A Simple Coded UI Test
2. Get A Coded UI Test Created In Manual Test Using The MTLM Tool
3. Add Validation To Your Coded UI Tests

The Guide will be published in my codeplex project: “TFS Guides” when finished, you can also find there more TFS guides.

I have also published a video, the video shows all the steps and examples from this guide: “Coded UI Test Demo – Video Hebrew”

Have Fun!!!