Microsoft UITesting Automation Engine Information

Question

I am using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting to hand-code automated tests for a Silverlight web application. I am running into an inconsistent failure problem, and I need to understand what visual studio is doing when it runs a test.

Where can I find detailed technical information on the testing framework/engine in Visual Studio? Or to state more specifically, I am looking for information on what is going on 'behind the scenes' when I run a test.

Answer 1

Since you didn't specify any specific information that you are looking for, I'll link you to a couple of "portal" pages that I tend to have good luck with when searching for Coded UI information.

The first one is here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mathew_aniyan/archive/2009/12/10/content-index-for-coded-ui-test.aspx, it's also got some links to some blogs of Microsoft employees who specialize in the Coded UI testing framework.

The second one is a bit smaller, but the links are a bit more organized: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd286726(VS.100).aspx.

I hope you find something useful on one of these.