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by conradb
Fri Jun 10, 2016 10:54 am
Forum: Automation Tools
Topic: Cannot see Report, (asked and solved.)
Replies: 0
Views: 1935

Cannot see Report, (asked and solved.)

If you see this in the report viewer: nonworking report.JPG You want to check if you are running on Windows server (2012 or later, but 2008 also) with enhanced security enabled. Open Server Manager, click on Local server, and find the option "IE enhanced Security configuration" - flip that switch an...
by conradb
Tue May 24, 2016 8:21 pm
Forum: Automation Tools
Topic: Commandline option nice to have /listconfigs
Replies: 4
Views: 2133

Re: Commandline option nice to have /listconfigs

Source of issue found!! all my fault. I wrote a script to copy the binaries across to the target machine - and some changes to that script are messing up because I corrupted one of the input CSV data files. It looks like providing a weirdly corrupted input CSV file can produce silent failure, but it...
by conradb
Tue May 24, 2016 1:23 pm
Forum: Automation Tools
Topic: Commandline option nice to have /listconfigs
Replies: 4
Views: 2133

Re: Commandline option nice to have /listconfigs

Hi Pavel. I'm pretty sure that is closer to what is going wrong. My test-case is just not even running, i can see it in the runner. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7181/27147394631_486a192d19_o_d.jpg I'm on version 5.4.5.19886. Things have been fine for about 2 months since I upgraded, if we get thin...
by conradb
Tue May 24, 2016 12:22 pm
Forum: Automation Tools
Topic: Commandline option nice to have /listconfigs
Replies: 4
Views: 2133

Commandline option nice to have /listconfigs

I'm struggling with a test change I made, I'm testing a Windows application, and when I added a new runconfig, the tool is doing something very unusual. The new runconfig is a copy of another one, but with some steps at the end removed. I have decided to split the tests into a *_SiteOnly and a *_Cat...
by conradb
Wed May 04, 2016 1:37 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: How to code review a test change
Replies: 3
Views: 1235

Re: How to code review a test change

Brilliant suggestions, yes that does help. Thank you for the inputs.

What is autobind?
And hopefully related to that, is there a way to harvest automation IDs in a form?
by conradb
Tue May 03, 2016 1:52 pm
Forum: General Questions
Topic: How to code review a test change
Replies: 3
Views: 1235

How to code review a test change

After going a little off track in a thread where I was looking at version control of the generated .cs code files I figured it wise to separate out this question better. I'm automating a WCF application, and most of the test changes are not "user-code", but other kinds of application may share exper...
by conradb
Tue May 03, 2016 12:30 pm
Forum: Automation Tools
Topic: How to remove readonly mode from .cs file after recording
Replies: 10
Views: 5559

Re: How to remove readonly mode from .cs file after recording

My intention with deleting all generated or generateable files was to be able to remove them from version control, and then to get them to regenerate in the MSBuild script. I hoped it slightly reduces number of files to check in when doing an average test change, but most fixes seem to touch quite a...
by conradb
Fri Apr 29, 2016 2:37 pm
Forum: Automation Tools
Topic: How to remove readonly mode from .cs file after recording
Replies: 10
Views: 5559

Re: How to remove readonly mode from .cs file after recording

When I delete all the generated files (files that contained the warning banner ) and then click "clean", then click "build solution" in studio it creates a swathe of warnings for each missing file. Is deleting all files containing 'DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!' the correct strategy for force a project t...
by conradb
Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:30 pm
Forum: Automation Tools
Topic: How to remove readonly mode from .cs file after recording
Replies: 10
Views: 5559

Re: How to remove readonly mode from .cs file after recording

It's my "future" intention to delete all generated files and somehow get our build script to regenerate them in future via msbuild. This would fit with the pattern of not ever storing any files that one can easily generate. I'm pretty sure it was finger problems on my part that got me here, since I ...
by conradb
Wed Apr 27, 2016 12:16 pm
Forum: Automation Tools
Topic: How to remove readonly mode from .cs file after recording
Replies: 10
Views: 5559

Re: How to remove readonly mode from .cs file after recording

I just randomly found myself in the same situation: I added two actions to a recording, and the disabled a different action, but every time I ran the test it was clearly running the old/origional test code. I restarted Ranorex and rebuilt the solution 3 times, problem persisted. I then saw that Rano...
by conradb
Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:56 am
Forum: Object Identification and Technologies
Topic: Automating a checklistbox (multicolumn list with tickmarks)
Replies: 2
Views: 2695

Re: Automating a checklistbox (multicolumn list with tickmarks)

Wow. A lot to take in there, but I expected I need to learn a lot from the answer, and it will take me a long time to digest. Yes the UI does not have many automation IDs, and is rather many controls. UI automation is something completely new to me - I am a API level tester who uses scripts and avoi...
by conradb
Tue Apr 26, 2016 3:19 pm
Forum: Object Identification and Technologies
Topic: Automating a checklistbox (multicolumn list with tickmarks)
Replies: 2
Views: 2695

Automating a checklistbox (multicolumn list with tickmarks)

I have a WPF application (actually an MMC snapin) and need to toggle a listbox item. I'm still very new to the tool, and in the role of a maintainer who is trying to fix a test suite after we made a bunch of UI changes. Here is my control, struggling to "activate" an item which is offscreen. ranorex...
by conradb
Fri Apr 22, 2016 4:31 pm
Forum: Automation Tools
Topic: How to loop test data set within a recording module
Replies: 3
Views: 4388

Re: How to loop test data set within a recording module

Thanks, that also made it clear. I had the same question :-) The "DATA" source is attached to the Testcase that you want to have run in a loop. All actions or step in that Testcase will get run for as many times as your data has rows. It was very easy in the UI for me to properly refactor my test ca...
by conradb
Fri Apr 22, 2016 9:23 am
Forum: Object Identification and Technologies
Topic: Ranorex Spy cannot read the result control in calc.exe
Replies: 3
Views: 2070

Re: Ranorex Spy cannot read the result control in calc.exe

Sure did. You guys are the boz. Thanks for your patience, it looks like I had to hit the refresh button in Spy or something, because I was not identifying/finding the edit control because the node (Container) was not probably showing it's child controls. I think I had to hit Refresh and viola, it's ...
by conradb
Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:43 am
Forum: Object Identification and Technologies
Topic: Ranorex Spy cannot read the result control in calc.exe
Replies: 3
Views: 2070

Ranorex Spy cannot read the result control in calc.exe

Just so I can learn to use Ranorex (please assume I'm not a programmer at all) I decided to test the well known calc.exe program just to build my Ranorex skills and use a well known problem-domain to learn how to create simple suites and organize and learn to have a strategy for managing many suites...