Test tied up to Controlls' names

[Olena]

Hi

I hope you can help me with a following problem:

When I record a test and press a button(1) or enter the text into textbox(2) inside the silverlight application WebUI records the following
1. Click BtnNewItemButton1
2. Type 'SomeText' into TxtNameTextbox3

As you can see it records the names of the elements(controlls) that were randomly given to controls during build. So later, if for any reason new element of the same type is added to the application window(tab) the test fails or executes wrong, cause what used to be BtnNewItemButton1 is now BtnNewItemButton3 and therefore can't be found/detected.

I am wondering if there is a possibility to somehow make the names of the controls stable(we are using Telerik controls in development)
Or maybe there is a possibility to tie the test to some other anchors on the application page?

Thanks a lot in advance!
Helen

[Cody]

Hello Olena,

In order to make tests work most reliably despite changes to the UI ask your software developers to use the AutomationID property. This ID needs to be manually added by your developers to the .XAML source code. Each AutomationID must be unique.

When you record a test and the element has an AutomationID we will pick up on that ID and use it in our find expression for locating the correct element at run time, no matter where it got moved to in the UI. This makes the test run very reliably during the application development life cycle.

Regards,
Cody

the Telerik team

[Cody]

Hi Olena,

I forgot to mention the AutomationID property is documented on MSDN here.

Regards,
Cody

the Telerik team