Platform Support for Coded UI Test (and Fast Forward feature of Test Runner)

Last updated on March 3rd 2011

The table below is summary of the current support for various platforms for Coded UI Test feature of VS 2010 and Fast Forward feature of Test Runner. We have shared this table earlier also but this is the latest version (as on March 3rd 2011). I will update this table to reflect latest status as appropriate.

Platform

Release

Post Release

Notes

IE7/IE8 – HTML/AJAX

    IE9 support (partial) added with VS\MTM 2010 SP1

Windows Forms 2.0+

   

Built-in .NET controls fully supported

WPF 3.5+

   

Built-in .NET controls fully supported

SharePoint 2007 & 2010

    Known issues & workarounds

Windows Win32

   

Known issues & Workarounds

MFC

   

Known issues & Workarounds

FireFox 3.5 and 3.6 – HTML/AJAX

   

Support released in Feature Pack 2.

Silverlight 4.0

   

Support released in Feature Pack 2.

Dynamics (Ax)

   

Partially supported – see article. Dynamics CRM web client is supported.

Citrix/Terminal Services

   

The client (MTLM or VS) need to be on remote machine

Office Client Apps

     

IE 6

   

Opportunity for partners to add this using the Extensibility support.  Docs and samples around extensibility are here.

Chrome/Opera/Safari

   

Flash/Java

   

SAP

   

Legends

Fully supported platform

 

Partial solution. Further work required in future to complete

 

Best efforts with known issues. Users can work-around these cases in the code. No major ongoing investment.

 

Currently no support but on the roadmap for future releases

 

Currently no support and none planned for now. Opportunity for partners to add this using the Extensibility support. Docs and samples around extensibility are here.

Based on various feedback, we are working on -

  1. List of known issues and workarounds for all the platforms.
  2. Release Plan with dates for the platforms that will be supported in the future.

I will update this blog post as and when we have those ready.