Microsoft UI Automation Library Vs Coded UI Test

Question

I\'m very much new to Test Automation kind of thing. Recently I\'ve been assigned to a project where I have to write an application (or, a script may be, I\'m not s

Answer 1

UI Automation library is a low-level library. Usually, you don't want to write tests against it directly as it requires a pretty decent amount of work.

I would recommend looking at more high-level libraries. You mentioned one of them - Coded UI; another good choice would be White from TestStack. They both suits different kinds of projects. Coded UI is good when you don't want to invest a lot of efforts into your test suite. At the same time, it doesn't scale much so if you are going to write a lot of tests, you are better of choosing White.

Here I compare the two frameworks in more detail: Coded UI vs White