Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Coded UI Test Plugin for Silverlight

Using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Coded UI Test plugin for Silverlight, you can create Coded UI tests or action recordings for Silverlight 5 applications.

This plugin supports Silverlight 5 applications hosted in Internet explorer versions 8, 9, 10 and 11. It requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 RTM or Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 CTP1 or higher.

If you are using Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, please usethis version of the UI Test plugin for Silverlight.

A few members of the product team got together and built this plugin as an off-hours project. It is not an official Microsoft release. We will monitor the Q&A section for queries.

Installation Steps

0. Prerequisites

You need to have any one of the following Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 SKUs installed on the machine - Ultimate, Premium, Test Agent or Team Foundation Server.

You should have Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 RTM or Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 CTP1 or higher on the machine.

1. Download the installer

2. Double click on the UITestPluginForSilverlightVS2013.msi to install.

Steps to enable this feature

1. Setup your Silverlight application to include a helper assembly which enables UI testing.

a. Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.SilverlightUIAutomationHelper in your Silverlight application.

b. Verify that each Silverlight control has a unique identification property.

Detailed description of the procedure is given in the MSDN article - How to: Setup your Silverlight application for Testing. This MSDN article describes the steps applicable for Silverlight 4 applications. These same instructions apply for Silverlight 5 applications.

2. Use Microsoft Visual Studio to create Coded UI Tests to test Silverlight applications.

3. Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.Silverlight in your Coded UI Test project. This assembly can be found in %Program Files%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VSTT\12.0\UITestExtensionPackages

Detailed steps are given in thisMSDN article - Walktrhough: Creating, Editing and Maintaining a Coded UI Test for Silverlight applications.

Additional Resources:

1. Testing Silverlight Applications with Coded UI Tests or Action Recordings [MSDN]
2. How to fetch properties of a Silverlight Control [Blog]
3. Understand the search logic for Silverlight Controls  [Blog]
4. How to validate properties of nested controls in Silverlight [Blog]
5. Test Automation for Silverlight DataGrid in Coded UI Test [Blog] 
6. Visual Studio UI Automation Testing (includes CodedUI) [MSDN Forums] – We encourage you to use the Q and A section
   of this Visual Studio Gallery for questions pertaining to this plugin.
7. For more information on Coded UI Test - Content Index for Coded UI Test