Winappdriver not locating ui element

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I have made a application. In it's UI I have a button when I click on it an open file dialog box opens up I have made this dialog box using the OpenFileDialog(). There is a open button inside this dialog box. I want to automate the UI TESTING of my application for which I need it to click on the open button but winappdriver is not able to locate and click on this button. I tried to locate it using automationid xpath name classname but nothing worked.

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I have tried to find the open button using classname xpath automation id but nothing worked..

Posted 19-Sep-19 1:50am

TANYA DHEER

Updated 16-May-23 4:04am

RickZeeland

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RickZeeland 19-Sep-19 8:20am

Is this a Winforms, WPF or Web application ?

TANYA DHEER 20-Sep-19 0:29am

it is a WPF application

RickZeeland 20-Sep-19 2:07am

Did you try using the UI Recorder ?

TANYA DHEER 20-Sep-19 2:25am

yes i used the UI recorder and i found the automation id for the open button to be "1" in the ui recorder but when i used session.findelementbyaccessiblityid("1").Click(); it was still not able to locate that button i tried the samme with xpath but nothing worked

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RickZeeland · Answer 1 · 2019-09-19T02:16:00

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Maybe you can use Microsoft UI automation, see: automation-testing-tools-for-a-medium-team-5-10-testers~powershell-uiautomation[^]

Posted 19-Sep-19 2:16am