• What's New in IG TestAutomation 2016.2

    The primary focus for Infragistics Test Automation is to offer you peace of mind. Such that when you develop with our controls, your teams can seamlessly implement automated testing of the user interface (UI) to confidently produce higher-quality releases. IG Test Automation, currently supports our Windows Forms controls via HP’s Unified Functional Testing (UFT) and IBM’s Rational Functional Tester (RFT). …

    • Thu, Jan 12 2017
  • About the SwfConfig File

    The most common problems when working with Infragistics IG TestAutomation, formerly TestAdvantage, is either directly or indirectly related to the swfconfig.xml file. So what is this file, what does it do?  

    What is the SwfConfig file?

    The SwfConfig file, or .NET Add-in Extensibility configuration file as it is sometimes referred to by HP, is a XML formatted configuration file. This file is always located at the location…
    • Tue, Jun 7 2016
  • What's New in IG TestAutomation 2016.1

    The primary focus for Infragistics Test Automation is to offer you peace of mind. Such that when you develop with our controls, your teams can seamlessly implement automated testing of the user interface (UI) to confidently produce higher-quality releases. IG Test Automation, currently supports our Windows Forms controls via HP’s Unified Functional Testing (UFT) and IBM’s Rational Functional Tester (RFT). …

    • Fri, May 13 2016
  • What is UI Automation testing, and why you should use it?

         So, what is UI Automation testing? Well, let's start off with breaking it down, UI or User Interface, is the front end of your application that your users interact with on their screens.

    What is UI testing?

         Anything the user is likely to do, might do, or can do, or often more importantly can do but shouldn't be able to do with your application while it is running, is part of the user interface, and therefore is…

    • Wed, Feb 10 2016
  • What's New in IG TestAutomation 2015.2

    The primary focus for Infragistics Test Automation is to offer you peace of mind. Such that when you develop with our controls, your teams can seamlessly implement automated testing of the user interface (UI) to confidently produce higher-quality releases. IG Test Automation, currently supports our Windows Forms controls via HP’s Unified Functional Testing (UFT) and IBM’s Rational Functional Tester (RFT). …

    • Tue, Oct 27 2015
  • UltraDataChart Data Annotations

    What are Data Annotations for the UltraDataChart?

    With the release of Infragistics 2015.2 Windows Forms controls, data annotation layers were added to the UltraDataChart. But what exactly are they? Data annotations are essentially just series layers, similar to ColumnSeries, AreaSeries, etc, but instead they add mouse over UI interactions to the UltraDataChart.

    There are a variety of types of annotation layers. You can…

    • Mon, Oct 26 2015
  • Does IG TestAutomation for HP support Citrix?

    The short answer is yes, the longer answer though depends on several factors. First if your version of HP testing software supports your Citrix server in your environment. Second is all of the following needs to be installed on the client, the HP testing software, the Application Under Test, and IGTestAutomation dll's.

    Below is a chart and additional information provided by HP that goes into more detail on the subject…

    • Wed, Oct 7 2015
  • What's New in IG TestAutomation 2015.1

    The primary focus for Infragistics Test Automation is to offer you peace of mind. Such that when you develop with our controls, your teams can seamlessly implement automated testing of the user interface (UI) to confidently produce higher-quality releases. IG Test Automation, currently supports our Windows Forms controls via HP’s Unified Functional Testing (UFT) and IBM’s Rational Functional Tester (RFT). …

    • Wed, May 6 2015
  • Installing TestAdvantage 2007 Volume 2 and earlier

    The issue

       Upon running the installer for any version of TestAdvantage 2007 volume 2 and earlier, you receive a message similar to this. 
    Mercury Interactive QuickTestProfessional Version Check
    Fatal Error found 
    With one or both of QuickTest Professional version, and .NET Add-in versions will be identified as 0.0 

     

    TestAdvantage 2006 volume 2 Install Error

     

     

    Why this is an issue

         To stem issues with the installation of TestAdvantage, we put in our installer tests…

    • Mon, Mar 23 2015
  • What's New in IG Test Automation 2014.2 for WPF

    The primary focus for Infragistics Test Automation is to offer you peace of mind. Such that when you develop with our controls, your teams can seamlessly implement automated testing of the user interface (UI) to confidently produce higher-quality releases. IG Test Automation, currently supports our WPF controls via HP’s Unified Functional Testing (UFT).

    With the release of our 2014 volume 2 WPF Control suite we…

    • Fri, Nov 21 2014
  • What's New in IG Test Automation 2014.2

    The primary focus for Infragistics Test Automation is to offer you peace of mind. Such that when you develop with our controls, your teams can seamlessly implement automated testing of the user interface (UI) to confidently produce higher-quality releases. IG Test Automation, currently supports our Windows Forms controls via HP’s Unified Functional Testing (UFT) and IBM’s Rational Functional Tester (RFT).

    • Thu, Nov 13 2014
  • What’s New in IG Test Automation 2014.1

    The primary focus for Infragistics Test Automation is to offer you peace of mind. Such that when you develop with our controls, your teams can seamlessly implement automated testing of the user interface (UI) to confidently produce higher-quality releases. IG Test Automation, currently supports our Windows Forms controls via HP’s Unified Functional Testing (UFT) and IBM’s Rational Functional Tester (RFT). …

    • Mon, Jun 2 2014
  • Introduction

    So as not to have the introduction in any of the technical posts, I will do it here as a stand alone. So here goes.

    Hello, my name is Mike Germann, I am currently, circa 2016, a Software Development Team Lead for Infragistics Windows Forms UI controls. I have been with Infragistics since 2005, with the majority of that time I was the lead developer for IG TestAutomation, formerly TestAdvantage, for HP UI Testing software…

    • Wed, Aug 28 2013