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AAN
Contributor
14 years ago

Test complete 9 - can it automate WPF well?

Hi I had a few too many issues with trying to get TC 8 in automating the WPF application we have in .NET technology.





Is Test Complete 9 better in automating WPF (.NET) technologies?





Please let me know if there are more features in TC 9 to help automate WPF applications better.





With Kind Regards,

A.

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  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Community Hero
    14 years ago
    Hi Aneez,



    I don't remember that it was advertized that TC9 introduces any revolutionary improvements for WPF testing.

    But WPF applications could be reliably automated with TC7 and TC8.

    The problem is that WPF applications itself has a crazy internal hierarchy of intermediate GUI objects and the chances are high that developers can 'improve' this mess depending on the used methodology. Depending on your project you might or might not have a chance to communicate with developers and improve the situation. But in any case WPF applications can be reliably automated with TestComplete. The question is only in the amount of efforts required from you to create stable and reliable tests.