TestApi - a library of Test APIs

Commented Issue: Problem closing multiple automated applications [23976]

PaulEbert — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:33:12 GMT

I'd like to be able to have more than one automated application running at a time. I'm able to open them and automate them, but there seems to be some sort of problem when I close them. It seems that when I close one, one or more of the remaining ones will also close. However, their associated objects appear to be intact. I get the following exception when I try to close the second application:

System.InvalidOperationException was unhandled
Message=Unsupported Pattern.
Source=UIAutomationClient
StackTrace:
at System.Windows.Automation.AutomationElement.GetCurrentPattern(AutomationPattern pattern)
at Microsoft.Test.ApplicationControl.UIAutomationApplicationImpl.CloseProcessWorker()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean ignoreSyncCtx)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
InnerException:
Comments: ** Comment from web user: PaulEbert **

Attached is some code that exhibits the problem.

Created Issue: Problem closing multiple automated applications [23976]

PaulEbert — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:31:54 GMT

New Post: When will TestAPI be available via NuGet?

ivom — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:43:19 GMT

Nithin,
Sorry for not taking care of that earlier.

Thanks much for putting together a stop-gap solution for others to use!

Ivo

btw how have you been? :) We should connect!

New Post: When will TestAPI be available via NuGet?

nithins — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:57:34 GMT

It's been a while and I needed this for a project. So I created a package and posted it to nuget.org: https://nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.TestApi/0.6.0.0 . Here's the nuspec that I used. If there is going to be an official nuget package released by the project, please let me know and I will take down my package immediately.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2010/07/nuspec.xsd">
    <metadata>
        <id>Microsoft.TestApi</id>
        <version>0.6.0.0</version>
        <authors>nithins</authors>
        <owners>Microsoft</owners>
        <licenseUrl>http://testapi.codeplex.com/license</licenseUrl>
        <projectUrl>http://testapi.codeplex.com</projectUrl>
        <requireLicenseAcceptance>false</requireLicenseAcceptance>
        <tags>Microsoft Testing TestApi Test WPF .NET API</tags>
        <description>TestApi is a library of test and utility APIs that enables developers and testers to create testing tools and automated tests for .NET and Win32 applications. TestApi provides a set of common test building blocks -- types, data-structures and algorithms -- in a simple, layered, componentized and documented stack.</description>
        <summary>TestApi is a library of test and utility APIs that enables developers and testers to create testing tools and automated tests for .NET and Win32 applications.</summary>
    </metadata>
    <files>
        <file src="**\TestApiCore.dll" target="lib\net40" />
        <file src="**\TestApiCore.pdb" target="lib\net40" />
        <file src="**\TestApiCore.xml" target="lib\net40" />
        <file src="**\TestApiWpf.dll" target="lib\net40" />
        <file src="**\TestApiWpf.pdb" target="lib\net40" />
        <file src="**\TestApiWpf.xml" target="lib\net40" />
    </files>
</package>

New Post: When will TestAPI be available via NuGet?

theperm — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:42:30 GMT

This still doesnt appear to be on nuget, which is a real shame.

Source code checked in, #69709

Project Collection Service Accounts — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:10:56 GMT

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Source code checked in, #69708

Project Collection Service Accounts — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:06:45 GMT

Checked in by server upgrade

Commented Issue: Alt+Tab is doesn't work On win8 OS [23408]

xiaxing86 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:14:09 GMT

Alt+Tab is work on win7 but didn’t works on win8. code as below:
Microsoft.Test.Input.Keyboard.Press(Microsoft.Test.Input.Key.LeftAlt);
Microsoft.Test.Input.Keyboard.Press(Microsoft.Test.Input.Key.Tab);
DispatcherOperations.WaitFor(DispatcherPriority.ApplicationIdle);
Microsoft.Test.Input.Keyboard.Release(Microsoft.Test.Input.Key.Tab);
Microsoft.Test.Input.Keyboard.Release(Microsoft.Test.Input.Key.LeftAlt);
Comments: ** Comment from web user: xiaxing86 **

Created Issue: Alt+Tab is doesn't work On win8 OS [23408]

xiaxing86 — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:12:46 GMT

New Post: Variation Generation Parameter Attributes

nsures — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:01:38 GMT

Hello All,

I am attempting to use the API at my work and have come across the following error when trying to build the following snippet.

class MyJobsWindow
    {
        [Parameter(0, 1, 12, 24)]
        public int window_start_hours { get; set; }
        
        [Parameter(new int[]{1,2,3,4})]
        public int window_start_minutes { get; set; }

        [Parameter(new string[]{ "p1", "p2", "p3" })]
        public string window_start_date { get; set; } 

    }

Error 1 An attribute argument must be a constant expression, typeof expression or array creation expression of an attribute parameter type c:\users\suresh.nanjan\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\SprtJobsVariations\SprtJobsVariations\SprtJobsModel.cs 81 20 SprtJobsVariations

I am surprised that I get this error only when I try to use some string type values for my ParameterAttribute ctor. Am I missing some thing fundamental here, I appreciate any help.

My intention is to use the following form of supplying values to parameter fields

[Parameter(new string[]{ 
DateTime.Today.AddDays(-1).ToString(), DateTime.Today.ToString(), DateTime.Today.AddDays(1).ToString(), DateTime.Today.AddDays(-7).ToString(), DateTime.Today.AddDays(7).ToString(), DateTime.Today.AddMonths(-1).ToString(), DateTime.Today.AddMonths(1).ToString() }
)]

Regards

Suresh

Created Issue: IndexOutOfRangeException in NumberProperty.InitializeNumberCharDictionary [23138]

codekaizen — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:50:48 GMT

An IndexOutOfRangeException is thrown on line 89 of NumberProperty.cs due to the fact that there are 2 identical ranges in the `expectedRanges` parameter under certain conditions which I am not fully able to describe, however, it appears to be a bug with clearing the cached 'range' state in StringFactory.

This unit test fails, highlighting the issue:

[Fact]
public void ChangingStringPropertiesResetsCachedStringFactoryState()
{
var properties = new StringProperties
{
MinNumberOfCodePoints = 10,
MaxNumberOfCodePoints = 30
};
var s1 = StringFactory.GenerateRandomString(properties, 1234);

properties = new StringProperties()
{
MinNumberOfCodePoints = 10,
MaxNumberOfCodePoints = 30,
HasNumbers = true
};

s1 = StringFactory.GenerateRandomString(properties, 1234);
}

Moving the `ranges.Clear()` call in StringFactory.InitializeProperties before the conditional fixes this problem, since it appears to reset the chached state correctly.

However, I'd even say further the design of this class is suspect, since cached static state prevents any concurrency. Why is StringFactory static? Why not create a StringFactory per properties as an instance, which would allow the desired caching without the global state which causes these kinds of problems?

New Post: UnicodeChart.AsciiDigits appears to be defined too broadly

codekaizen — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:45:22 GMT

Thanks for the insight. It could very well be in the design doc, but until now I didn't even know one existed. If it was called "readme" or "release notes" I'm sure I would have read it. Sorry for the oversight.

Can you speculate as to release? The work here is surprisingly high-quality and comprehensive. I'd vote for sooner release vs. later.

New Post: UnicodeChart.AsciiDigits appears to be defined too broadly

dennisd — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:47:37 GMT

agree. It was by designed that we used the range 0x0000 - 0x007F. UnicodeRangeDatabase initialized Scripts and Symbols and Puncatuations by following http://www.unicode.org/charts/. They were further defined as Group and SubGroup. The UnicodeRange used was the range directly from the linked pdf file (same to FullwidthAsciiDigits). We did not refine further due to the time constrain particularly some of them were not in one contiguous range (multiple ranges instead). For NumberProperty, the range was only used for validation purpose. For more precise result, properties.UnicodeRanges.Add(new UnicodeRange(0x30, 0x39)) can be used for now. We were hoping to refine them after the first release. I thought it was mentioned in the design doc.

Regards,

Dennis

New Post: UnicodeChart.AsciiDigits appears to be defined too broadly

codekaizen — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:55:12 GMT

In the file Source\TestApiCore\Code\Text\UnicodeRangeDatabase.cs the following line defines the range for UnicodeChart.AsciiDigits:

symbolsAndPunctuation[14] = new Group(new UnicodeRange(0x0000, 0x007F), "Numbers and Digits", "ASCII Digits", "latin", UnicodeChart.AsciiDigits);

I think this range (0x00 - 0x7F) is too broad. Looking at the chart for ASCII from unicode.org (here http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf), it indicates that digits are only 0x30 - 0x39, which correlates with my experience with ASCII digits.

New Post: Snapshot .ToByteArray() thoughts

egscott2004 — Wed, 23 May 2012 20:05:21 GMT

I know this post is a bit old, but I think adding this is a great idea. I may try to add it in my first submission if you haven't already.

Reviewed: TestApi v0.6 (Mar 21, 2012)

NLord — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:58:43 GMT

Rated 4 Stars (out of 5) - Excellent set of utilities, successfully used it for 2 years for automated functional and non-functional testing. I would extend searching functions, but still – that is a good choice for a test automation project.

Reviewed: TestApi v0.6 (Dec 14, 2011)

MikeHughes — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:51:50 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - Mouse and Keyboard worked perfectly straight out of the box. Would like Current position of mouse included but otherwise brilliant.

New Post: Snapshot .ToByteArray() thoughts

rcurrie — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:37:13 GMT

Hello,

I just had a comment on the Snapshot class of TestApi. I've been wanting to modify images in memory and thus was thinking about adding a .ToByteArray() method to the Snapshot class to go along side .ToFile(). Would there be any significant downside to this addition?

/// <summary>
/// Writes the current Snapshot to a byte array
/// </summary>
/// <param name="imageFormat">The image format to be used</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public byte[] ToByteArray(ImageFormat imageFormat)
{
    byte[] data = null;
    using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
    {
        CreateBitmapFromSnapshot().Save(stream, imageFormat);
        data = stream.ToArray();
    }
    return data;
}

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thank you!

New Post: v0.6, Notes regarding how to get the sample work.

billliu — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:19:31 GMT

checking with project owner on the update schedule.

New Post: v0.6, Notes regarding how to get the sample work.

Creetor — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:53:56 GMT

Thank you! I can’t believe I missed that. Version .5 will work. Will we need to wait for version .7 before updating for Fault Injection?