And again about software testing

UI testing is a very tricky thing. Everything depends on how accurately test tool recognizes UI elements and theirs properties. In this particular topic I would like to tell you how some invisible and not obvious settings of TestComplete can improve recognition of UI object properties. TestComplete with default settings does not always have access to Extended properties of these UI elements: You can change it by going to Tools > Current Project Properties > Object Mapping and check the required component there (if it is supported by TestComplete). After this you will be able to see additional category “Extended” in the Object Spy and access these properties in your test scripts: The only one thing you should take into account is that the designer of the Object Mapping tree was probably drunk or used a very heavy drugs. In some cases it is not enough to check the object category (I spend several days by trying to configure support of our DevExpress XtraG