What is the way forward after Coded UI deprecation
What we will do after Coded UI deprecation? Most of us are aware about Microsoft official announcement that Coded UI will no longer be available after Visual Studio 2019. This news triggers the question for those teams who are using Coded UI, what they will do? We have listed down here some points that might help to take a decision. Why Microsoft is deprecating Coded UI Test? Coded UI tests are used for UI-driven functional automation of web apps and desktop apps. Open source UI testing tools such as Selenium and Appium have gained momentum in recent years, have a strong community backing and are now pretty much industry standards. Coded UI’s cross-browser testing solution was itself based on Selenium. Additionally, both Selenium and Appium work cross-platform and support multiple programming languages. Other important point is that Test automation focus is also shifting from predominantly UI driven testing to more unit testing and API testing. For how ...