TestComplete supports testing of various WPF controls. You can also modify project properties so that TestComplete recognizes your custom WPF controls. The sections below describe how you can test WPF controls in detail.
About Supported WPF ControlsAbout Supported WPF Controls
TestComplete can work with any WPF control via a graphical user interface. Besides, TestComplete provides extended support for most of WPF controls. It automatically associates them with special scripting test objects that contain supplementary methods and properties for working with the controls, for example, for selecting individual items and retrieving the item text.
Requirements
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A license for TestComplete Desktop module.
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The WPF Control Support plugin. It provides access to controls via special program objects. It also enables creating table checkpoints for controls that display data in a tabular form. For the full list of these controls, see About Tables Collection.
This plugin is installed and enabled automatically.
If you experience issues when working with the controls, select File | Install Extensions from the TestComplete main menu to check whether the plugin is active. If the plugin is not available, run the TestComplete installation in the Repair mode.
Supported Component Versions
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.NET Framework v. 3.0 - 4.8.
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PowerBuilder .NET 12.0, 12.5, 12.5.2 and 12.6.
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 - 2013 Shell.
| Note: | For information on the supported WPF Toolkit controls, see Supported Microsoft Controls. |
Supported Classes
Below is the full list of the WPF controls for which TestComplete provides extended support.
Note that TestComplete provides support for the listed controls as well as for their descendants. However, to make this possible, you need to specify the class name of your inherited control in the corresponding group of the project’s Object Mapping options. For more information, see Object Mapping.
| Controls | Classes |
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| Button | System.Windows.Controls.Button Microsoft.Windows.Controls.Ribbon.RibbonButton Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.CommandButton Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.ToolbarButton Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.PictureButton Microsoft.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.VsButton |
| Check box | System.Windows.Controls.CheckBox Microsoft.Windows.Controls.Ribbon.RibbonCheckBox Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.CheckBox |
| Combo box | System.Windows.Controls.ComboBox Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.DropDownListBox Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.DropDownPictureListBox |
| Edit | System.Windows.Controls.TextBox Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.MultiLineEdit Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.SingleLineEdit |
| Expander | System.Windows.Controls.Expander |
| List box | System.Windows.Controls.ListBox Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.ListBox Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.PictureListBox |
| List view | System.Windows.Controls.ListView Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.ListView |
| Menu |
System.Windows.Controls.Menu Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.Menu Microsoft.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.VsMenu |
| Password edit | System.Windows.Controls.PasswordBox |
| Radio button | System.Windows.Controls.RadioButton Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.RadioButton |
| Repeat button | System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.RepeatButton |
| Ribbon | Microsoft.Windows.Controls.Ribbon.Ribbon System.Windows.Controls.Ribbon.Ribbon |
| Scroll bar | System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.ScrollBar Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.HScrollBar Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.VScrollBar |
| Scroll viewer | System.Windows.Controls.ScrollViewer System.Windows.Controls.FlowDocumentScrollViewer System.Windows.Controls.DocumentViewer |
| TabControl | System.Windows.Controls.TabControl Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.Tab Microsoft.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.Shell.Controls.TabGroupControl |
| Toggle button | System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.ToggleButton Microsoft.Windows.Controls.Ribbon.RibbonToggleButton |
| Toolbar | System.Windows.Controls.ToolBar Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.Toolbar Microsoft.VisualStudio.PlatformUI.VsToolBar |
| TrackBar | System.Windows.Controls.Slider Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.HTrackBar Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.VTrackBar |
| Tree view | System.Windows.Controls.TreeView Sybase.PowerBuilder.WPF.Controls.TreeView |
| Note: | If your WPF application contains a control that represents a collection of items (for example, a combo box or a list box), and the control uses data binding for its items, TestComplete may fail to access those items correctly. To get the items, you can use the control’s native properties. |
Recognizing Custom Controls
To command TestComplete to recognize your custom WPF controls, open your project’s Object Mapping options and add the control’s class name to the corresponding subgroup of the WPF Controls group. The subgroup name corresponds to your custom control’s type. Once the control is mapped, it gets all the properties, methods and actions specific to the WPF control of the corresponding type.
If the specified custom control does not fit the control’s type, then it may not properly respond to commands that TestComplete sends, so recording or playing back user actions over the tested control will cause errors.
More Supported WPF Controls
For more supported WPF controls, see the following topics:
See Also
Supported Controls
Testing WPF Applications
Support for WPF Applications' Controls
Support for WPF Control Templates