UITest Framework Mozilla Firefox support in VS 2010

Test Package for Mozilla Firefox will be a feature pack for Visual Studio 2010 that enables playback of UI actions on a website/web application that have been recorded on Windows Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on Mozilla Firefox web browser. Currently this is in Beta stage and will be released with VS 2010 Feature Pack.

Please note that recording UI actions on Mozilla Firefox is not supported. There is no UICL (UI control Locator) support for controls in Mozilla Firefox. The Benefit of this model is that any recording in IE would playback in Mozilla Firefox without any code change. Even the assertions added through UICL to verify the state/properties of controls need not be changed for validation in Mozilla Firefox. With one time recording in IE, we can playback in IE or Mozilla Firefox any number of times. Thereby all the CodedUITest projects recorded for IE or scenarios recorded in MTM would seamlessly playback in Mozilla Firefox, by just enabling the Mozilla Firefox plugin.

Please take a look at this blog for information related to Record & Playback on IE applications.

Supported Mozilla Firefox version

This package enables playback of UI actions on the following versions of Mozilla Firefox

· Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and above are supported.
Multiple Version Support

The user could have multiple versions of Mozilla Firefox installed & multiple languages of the same version of Mozilla Firefox installed. The playback provides the user to choose the version & language of Mozilla Firefox on which the playback is supposed to happen. While doing playback using MTM, all the Firefox versions installed on the machine are displayed to the user to choose from. In case of CodedUITest the user can set the BrowserWindow.CurrentBrowser property to any of the installed versions & playback chooses the mentioned Mozilla Firefox version for playback.

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