Some important notes before I talk about the utility –<\/p>\n
The attached sample utility<\/a> adds support for XPath query to Coded UI Test for searching controls. The utility uses built-in XPath parser and other classes of .NET and as such is conformant to .NET\u2019s XPath Syntax<\/a>. The new utility assembly adds two extension methods to UITestControl<\/a> class \u2013<\/p>\n <\/div>\n To use these methods, unzip the attached sample and add reference in your Coded UI Test project to the UITestXPathUtility.dll. (Note that you have manually ensure this dll is there on all machines on which the tests are run.)<\/p>\n Some examples of how to use these functions are \u2013<\/p>\n <\/div>\n XPath is very powerful and expressive \u2013 I have not tested for all syntax but the way implementation is I believe all syntax would be supported. In implementation, I am not parsing or doing anything specific to XPath grammar but rather providing navigation capability via XPathNavigator interface to standard .NET APIs to support XPath.<\/p>\n Before using the sample further, note the two limitations\\issues here \u2013<\/p>\n Because of the above two limitations\\issues, this should not be used as a widespread replacement of the built-in search. <\/span><\/strong>You should use it with prudence at places where you really need ease of use and power of XPath. I would suggest limiting the usage to places where control tree is not deep to overcome the performance penalty.<\/p>\n Gautam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some important notes before I talk about the utility – This posting, and the sample herewith, are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/info\/cpyright.htm The sample is not supported by Microsoft or the author of this blog. If you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,1,252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-devops","category-testing"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Some important notes before I talk about the utility – This posting, and the sample herewith, are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/info\/cpyright.htm The sample is not supported by Microsoft or the author of this blog. If you […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}public<\/span> static<\/span> UITestControl FindFirstByXPath(this<\/span> UITestControl controlToSearchUnder, string<\/span> xPathQuery)
public<\/span> static<\/span> IEnumerable<UITestControl> FindAllByXPath(this<\/span> UITestControl controlToSearchUnder, string<\/span> xPathQuery)
<\/pre>\n\/\/ Get all the radio buttons in the calculatorvar<\/span>
var radionButtons = calc.FindAllByXPath("\/\/RadioButton"<\/span>);
\/\/ Get all the radio buttons which are either Selected or have name Radians.<\/span>
\/\/ Note that Coded UI Test does not have built-in support for OR operator and<\/span>
\/\/ neither does it allow using Selected property in search condition.var<\/span>
var selectedButtons = calc.FindAllByXPath("\/\/RadioButton[@Selected != 'False' or @Name = 'Radians']"<\/span>);
\/\/ Get the first control that has Selected property (irrespective of its value)var<\/span>
var controlWithSelectedProperty = calc.FindFirstByXPath("\/\/*[@Selected"<\/span>);<\/pre>\n\n