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Hi All,

I am looking out for a tool or approch by which we can automate the testing of PowerApps. How can we perform load testing on powerapps.

Thanks!

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PSK

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v-monli-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Anonymous,

Would you please describe more about what you are trying to test? What do you want to achieve? Detailed steps would be even better.

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Mona
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Have you found any solution?
PaulD1 2,914 on at

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I'm experimenting with using Selenium IDE with PowerApps but straight away ran into some issues with selecting items in Galleries and populating Date Pickers. Early days, so maybe I can find a solution, but right now it looks like only a partial solution.

Selenium is available as an Add-In for Chrome and lets you record yourself performing tasks in a web browser, and then automatically repeat those tasks.

It appears to work with some PowerApps controls, but not all. It could be useful for semi-automated testing (with the user taking over when incompatible tasks need to occur) or load-testing if you speciflically develop compatible screens.
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Good day PaulD1
I notice you have eexperience testing PowerApps with Selenium and facing some issues.
Is any other solutions to Automate PowerApps testing ? Will appreciate your advice!

I am currently experiencing issues with Automate drop down boxes or combo boxes with PowerApp.
Using Katalon Studio and Katalon Automated Recorder
Unable to find element for drop down
When selecting element in IE 11 following code below comes and

<div tabindex="12" title="TeamId" class="appmagic-dropdownLabelText no-focus-outline" role="combobox" aria-describedby="dropdown_siena_3bea9304963e952_instructions" aria-activedescendant="appmagic-dropdownFlyoutdropdown_siena_3bea9304963e952_0" aria-owns="appmagic-dropdownFlyoutdropdown_siena_3bea9304963e952" style="padding: 10px;" data-bind="
 attr: {
 title: properties.Tooltip() || null,
 role: displayMode() === AppMagic.Constants.DisplayMode.View ? null : 'combobox',
 'aria-label': properties.AccessibleLabel() || null,
 'aria-disabled': displayMode() === AppMagic.Constants.DisplayMode.View ? null :isDisabled,
 'aria-readonly': displayMode() === AppMagic.Constants.DisplayMode.View ? null :isReadOnly,
 'aria-owns': 'appmagic-dropdownFlyout' + id,
 'aria-describedby': id + '_instructions'
 },
 text: selectedValue,
 style: {
 paddingTop: properties.PaddingTop,
 paddingRight: properties.PaddingRight,
 paddingBottom: properties.PaddingBottom,
 paddingLeft: properties.PaddingLeft
 }
 " touch-action="pan-x pan-y">Select a team</div>

Thank you
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Hi @Anonymous
Sorry, nothing more to report on Selenium, we are just trying to be more disciplined about how we build apps (designing them in a hopefully more resilient manner) and doing more manual testing.

On the manual testing front, this looks interesting, though we haven't had a chance to try it out yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSACs4QRnuI
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This is something that might be worth taking a look at from a testing perspective:

http://sikulix.com/

It uses OCR to help recognise the locations of controls on the screen and click or enter test data.

Somewhat complex to setup for us low-code folk (not a simple install, requires lots of pre-requisites) but I can see it being a useful tool to partially automate the testing for a mature App (something where the screen layout isn't routinely being modified).
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Hello,

I've also been using Selenium with PowerApps to some success. Don't listen to the comments out in the nether that say it doesn't work. It can be very tricky because many of the elements in the canvas apps are abstracted and obfuscated by shadow dom elements and iframes. Learning how to parse through these kinds of elements can make automated testing with custom scripts successful.

With the new test framework coming out though, it should be easier for new developers.
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Definitely not impossible @Anonymous but it has its challenges. As you referenced, we have just released v1 of the Power Apps Test studio, a low-code solution to help makers build tests for their apps. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/test-studio . Would love to hear any feedback on your experiences when using the test studio - we have a separate discussion thread to provide feedback.
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Hey Anonymous,
Thanks for pointing this out.
We have a client requirement to automate power apps and test studio in power apps is still in Experimental mode. I've also started power apps automation with selenium and ran into the basic issues.
It is not locating the web element, is it possible for you to provide some initial guidance.

Would be very helpful.
Thanks.
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Yeah, this is really challenging for me in QA Automation. My team only wants 1 automation tool to use for [1] PowerApps & [2] SharePoint site platforms. Already had initial success in Katalon studio. Now for PowerApps, really had to navigate through the iframe & stuff, which is not my area of expertise at this moment.

Accessing the Test Studio need a license after all, and only 1 user session to access the application in development.