Testing a Custom Control Using Automation Support

You can create specific automation support for the custom control. This additional automation support provides recording support and more powerful play-back support. To create automation support, the test application must be modified and the Open Agent must be extended.

Before you can test a custom control in Silk4NET, perform the following steps:

Define the custom control in the test application
Implement automation support

After the test application has been modified and includes automation support, perform the following steps:

For scripts, record the script and make manual modifications to fit the custom control. For example, the following code shows how to increment the spinner's value by 3 by using the "Increment" method that has been implemented in the automation delegate:

_desktop.TestObject("//FlexSpinner[@caption='index:1']").Invoke("Increment", 3)

The following example shows how to set the value of the spinner to 3.

_desktop.TestObject("//FlexSpinner[@caption='index:1']").SetProperty("Value", 3)