I'd like to make some suggestions to make the image verification feature better - this is for a WPF test but is likely applicable to webpages.

When the image verification fails, it would be helpful to get better feedback. All I see is that it failed and by what percentage.
I need to know where it failed - what position on the image did it fail at? At least give me an x, y coordinate of the general area of the failure.
I've been getting a lot of failures even for simple tests - and I don't know why. I don't think I should have to adjust the tolerance from the default for these simple tests.

Secondly, when I set up a new image verification, I understand I can either compare the whole image or a sub-selection of the image.
What I want to do is do a whole image verification, but I want to mark off regions that I don't care about. For instance, my image may have a clock in the corner - and something actively moving in another area - in that case I would want to exclude both those regions.

Lastly, I'd like to be able to have the option to have the test runner save an image some place when it's verification fails so I can look at it.

Thank You

Hi,

I was wondering if it was possible to see the code for an entire test in Test Studio the QA edition? I need the coded script to use for Acceptance tests we are using with Specflow. Is this possible?(I have copied and pasted a test to a new folder and clicked view class that is not the coded steps. Rather a coding template with an example.)

I am trying to use a reference to a third-party dll in my project and am not having any luck.

As background, the "third-party" dll is actually something I built but I want to use the dll as a common method library. For example, this dll allows me to authenticate a user for my web application without having to enter username and password on the log in page. I want to reference the dll as if it were a common library.

I am using the Test Studio Visual Studio plug-in, NOT the stand alone version.

I was able to make the reference easy enough and my runs perfectly in my local dev environment. When I move my code to my build (in this case CruiseControl) environment, the referred dll cannot b

e found. The .tstest file is looking for the dll in the project folder with the same directory structure as my local dev environment (e.g. c:\users\...). We put all of our CruiseControl files on an E: drive in the build environment. So the third-party dll location on the build environment is NEVER "c:\users..." but rather "e:\cruisecontrol\automation...".

All of our other projects, by the way, do call other referred perfectly fine.

I have tried a number of steps to get around this issue but need more help. I have tried:
1. Removing the references from the .tstest file. I opened the offending .tstest file in an XML view and removed the "hard-coded" lines from the CurrentReferences section. For example, I removed:
<d2p1:string>C:\Users\David Adams\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\vergeautomationtools\vergeautomationtools\bin\Debug\vergeautomationtools.dll</d2p1:string>
from

I also removed numerous, similar references from Settings.aiis. Settings.aiis appears to keep old versions of references around for whatever reason even after I have explicitly removed the reference to a dll.

Something I have noticed is that Visual Studio (or Telerik or whomever) is adding the bad and old versions of the dll references when editing the .tstest file using the "Run To Here" functionality. I use that feature A LOT and now need to edit the XML every time I use the feature. PLEASE NOTE: THE REFERENCES ARE NOT RE-ADDED EVERY TIME "RUN TO HERE" IS USED MAKING IDENTIFICATION OF THE ISSUE THAT MUCH MORE DIFFICULT.

2. I have added a hard-coded reference in my build environment to this dll. I created the path and file "C:\Users\David Adams\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\vergeautomationtools\vergeautomationtools\bin\Debug\vergeautomationtools.dll"
on the build server. I have come to find that there are security issues with that and that path still cannot be found when executing my test on the build server.
I find this to be a very weak solution to what should not even be an issue.

3. I have changed the entire structure of my solution to include the dll project and my automation project together and make a project reference. Visual Studio still makes an absolute-path reference to the dll so there is, in essence, no difference than making a regular file reference.

4. I have tried to strongly-name the third-party dll and added it to the GAC. Even when adding from the GAC the directory path that appears in Visual Studio is "c:\users...".  This is another weak solution.

5. I created c:\automationdlls and added my dll to this folder. To avoid the c:\user.. security issue I created c:\automationdlls on both my local dev environment and the cruisecontrol environment. When adding a reference to the dll, the directory path that appears in Visual Studio is "c:\users...". Back to square 1.

Of the hundreds of Telerik customers reading these forums, I have to believe that one of you are referencing third-party dlls and building that code in a cruisecontrol environment that is not running off the c: volume. Can anyone assist on this? 

 Hi,

  I got the following error in the failure log:

"

Failure Information: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Timed out waiting '25000' msec. for download dialog to be handled.
InnerException:System.TimeoutException: Timed out waiting '25000' msec. for download dialog to be handled. at ArtOfTest.WebAii.Design.IntrinsicTranslators.Descriptors.DownloadDialogHandlerDescriptor.Execute(Browser browser) at ArtOfTest.WebAii.Design.IntrinsicTranslators.Descriptors.DialogHandlerDescriptor.Execute(IAutomationHost browser) at ArtOfTest.WebAii.Design.Execution.ExecutionEngine.ExecuteStep(Int32 order)------------------------------------------------------------'6/5/2012 1:05:26 PM' - Detected a failure. Step is marked 'ContinueOnFailure=False' aborting test execution.------------------------------------------------------------'6/5/2012 1:05:26 PM' - Overall Result: Fail'6/5/2012 1:05:26 PM' - Duration: [2 min: 17 sec: 274 msec]------------------------------------------------------------'6/5/2012 1:05:35 PM' - Test completed!

"

Actually, i tried "Handle "Download" dialogue" for "File Download" window.,I gave the "Handle button" as "Save" and mentioned the path in the "DownloadPath" section.

Kindly help me with this.

Thanks,
Deepa

Hi Telerik Team,

 

In one of my test, I want to wait till the button gets disabled. So I am using the step as:

‘Wait for ‘btnSave’ is disabed’ and I have set the Wait timeout for the step to ‘120000’.

But surprisingly the step is failing without waiting for 2 minutes. Below is log extract for the failure.

 

I am expecting that if the button is enabled, the “Wait for 'btnSave' is disabled” step will wait till button gets disabled or till max Wait timeout which I have set to 2 minutes. Please let me know if I am using it correctly or do I need to modify the code.

 

Note: I have attached a screenshot for the step properties.

 

Thanks.

 

Log Extract:

 

'6/7/2012 2:26:22 PM' - 'Pass' : 24. Wait for ExistsNot 'Table'

‘6/7/2012 2:28:23 PM' - 'Fail' : 25. Wait for 'btnSave' is disabled

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Failure Information:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Element enabled state didn't match expected value. Expected: False Actual: True

------------------------------------------------------------

'6/7/2012 2:28:23 PM' - Detected a failure. Step is marked 'ContinueOnFailure=False' aborting test execution.

------------------------------------------------------------

'6/7/2012 2:28:23 PM' - Overall Result: Fail

'6/7/2012 2:28:23 PM' - Duration: [2 min: 40 sec: 343 msec]

------------------------------------------------------------

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'6/7/2012 2:28:23 PM' - Overall Result: Fail

'6/7/2012 2:28:23 PM' - Duration: [2 min: 40 sec: 343 msec]

I want to verify in a step, that the forgroundcolor in a silverlight application textblock is orange.
I cannot find the Property color or similar to this in the verify box.

How can I access the color of a textblock in Silverlight via Teststudio or via code?

Best regards,
Adriane

Hi,

I am having trouble understanding how Assert() works.  Essentially, the below VB subroutine attempts to find out if an HTML table is displaying a particular table cell after entering a search string into an interactive search field (the search occurs automatically without needing to press a [Go] button).  If the table cell is not present then the routine presses a screen button [Add].  If it is present then the routine clears the search field ready for a new search.


When I execute this it fails on the first loop through, on the line:
          If (Assert.IsTrue(NoMatchingTableCell.IsVisible) = True) Then

Clearly I have not understood how the Assert statement works.  Please would someone help by reviewing the above VB subroutine and advise where I have gone wrong, or suggest a better alternative.

Many thanks,
Nigel Edwards, Transition Computing. 

I've been testing the manual testing features of test studio. I noticed some things that didn't seem right to me when I create and ran a manual test.


Setting Up A Manual test
1. It appears that the instructions for the test can only be stored for the entire test. I want to put screen captures and notes on each step. How do I do this?
2. Why can't I have a storyboard for a manual test?

Executing a Manual Tests.
1. It appears you can not delete a screen capture on a step. You can only save over the top? How do I delete one?
2. The screen capture tool isn't very good.  I would rather use snagit to capture screenshots and paste the capture into the step test - I can't seem to do that - why?
3. How do I see the results of a manual test that includes the screen shots that were taken during the test run? I see no way to do this.

Hello,

Our dev team recently updated the Scheduling page in our application to use a RadScheduleView instead of a Radscheduler.  This has broken most of our tests that were written to work with the radscheduler and we are working through the issues to fix them.  This post is to ask you about one of the issues.

One of our tests was creating an appointment by selecting a specific row in the Scheduler view and then invoking the Create Appointment command from the right-mouse menu associated with that row (the time slot values are used to populate the Time fields in the dialog that shows up).  

The selected row was computed based on the desired time (which was one of about 6 possible values that the test would pick from in each run).  Here is the code:


The above code worked with the Radscheduler because each row was associated with a different Border object (which was enclosed in a TimeSlotItem object).  However, I am finding that is not the case with the Radscheduler view.  When I record the right mouse click (prior to taking it to code), I seem to be getting the same id no matter which row I pick. 

When I look at the DOM, I don't see Border elements for any of the rows - instead I am seeing TimeRulerLine elements inside a TimeRulerLinesPanel element.  Each of the TimeRuler elements does have a Border element - but the recorder is apparently not finding them or not seeing them as different objects.

Question:  Given the above, is it possible to replicate the test functionality (as it worked with Radscheduler) to work with Radscheduleview?  If so, what do I need to do?

Attached are snapshots of the scheduler page with Radscheduleview (radschedulerview.jpg) and radscheduler (radscheduler.jpg) with the respective DOM shown alongside.

I appreciate your help in this regard.  A prompt response would be very much appreciated as the test in question is a smoke test and needs to be fixed as soon as possible.  Please let me know if you have further questions.

Thanks,
Shashi  

Hi,

I want to do this steps:
Navigate on a silverlight webapplication site. Click Search Button.
I get one result.
On the resultview I can see a textblock. Now I want to save the data from this textblock in a variable.
Do some other background steps.
Go again on the webapplication, search, get one result.
Now I want to verify, that the text is not the same as before.

My question is, how can I save the value from the textblock in a variable and verify it later?

As I recorded the test, I can access the Textblock, but did not find a way to save the value from the text with the Telerik GUI elements.
So I think I need to access it via code and save it in this step, where I can see it, right?
But how can I access the textblock from the code to do so?

There is one button "Add to project elements" to put the element in the elementsTree. I tried this one, and then tried to access in the next code step via
string sjobid = Pages.VPMSMediaCenter.SilverlightApp0.sjobidTextblock.Text;


But as I play the test, I got the error message:

Exception thrown executing coded step: '[AF001_QA001_Umbenennung_CodedStep1] : Save SJobID in variable'.
InnerException:
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
   at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException()
   at ArtOfTest.WebAii.Silverlight.SilverlightAppsList.get_Item(Int32 index)

I am new to Telerik Teststudio, maybe there is a explanation (didn't find it in forum/documentation) somewhere?
Or someone can help me here?

Best regards,
Adriane