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How to create name mapping for windows application when testing web application?

Helen nguyen — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 08:40:43 GMT

Hi All,

I'm testing a web application, but it has some windows application forms occured when testing this web application. I can't add that windows application in TestedApp because I don't have it. So when I created name mapping with that winforms, those name mapping will not be worked when running in another computer. Please help me resolve it.

Thanks in advance.

Helen.

Refresh Method

Anubhav Rawat — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:27:32 GMT

Hi,

I am new to test complete. On reading the documents, i came across TestObj.Refresh method to refresh the existing cache during execution. I am a little confused with this.

When and why would i need this? To improve performance of my scripts, how do we decide when to use it and when not?

Say, i have two comboboxes, combo1 and combo2. Now, if i select some values in combo1, combo2 values are loaded accordingly. Do i need to refresh objects after selecting combo1 value???

I am coming from QTP background, and we never used a Refresh option there, so kind of a little confused with this option in Testcomplete. My team has used it for almost every object after performing an operation, which to me should not be the right way. There has to be a good reasoning to use it.

Your help will be appreaciated.

~Thanks,
Anubhav

How to use regular expressions for object hierarchy

Shankar L — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:48:58 GMT

Hi All,

I am new to Test Complete.
I want to use regular expressions for object hierarchy in the vb script. Below is the code generated by Test Complete I want to apply regular expression for that.

Call Aliases.browser.pageLawsonPortal1.frameContent.formLoginform.panelBgdiv.panelFieldsdiv.table.cell1.passwordboxSsopass.keys("Test123$")

I want to use above line like below :

Call Aliases.browser.pageLawsonPortal1.*.passwordboxSsopass.keys("Test123$")

Please help me how to apply regular expression.

Thank you.

Regards,
Shankar L

How to get (X,Y) co-ordinate of the screen.

Dev Perera — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:47:11 GMT

Hi All,

I need to click particular place in a screen, in order to do that,
First I need to know (X,Y) co-ordination of that point of the screen.
Second I need to know VB scripts which performing mouse click action of that particular point of that screen.

I need this because TestComplete is not recognizing that point of the screen, which was window application written by Java.

CTabfolder control problem in Testcomplete

yugandhar mannava — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:04:48 GMT

Hi *,
Till now i was working on java swing objects and i didn't find any problem with them while working with JTabbedpane.

Recently i started testing on eclipse and i got a problem to open a tab (on CTabFolder) based on the tab text.
how can we click on the tab with specific text on tab?

code sample will help me more...

Page load waiting inIE 8 , Firefox , Chrome

swathi 23 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:44:03 GMT

How can we make the page to wait until it loads completely in all the browsers . I tried using process wait however as IE8 is creating 2 process on task manager i am unable to do so.

Can any one please guide me.

Clicking a UIA object

Nathan Gladysz — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:03:37 GMT

Our AUT has a custom control that is like a grid and manually draws it's cells on a "render surface". These cells are completely custom and do not inherit from any Microsoft library classes (i.e. FrameworkElement). We have a need to automate interactions with this custom control so we decided to look into AutomationPeers. I have tested this approach and TestComplete is able to recognize the custom UIA objects; however, when I try to click one of the cells in this custom grid it simply clicks the middle of the window. The AutomationPeers for these cells override GetClickablePointCore and provide a correct point to be clicked for that object, but it still doesn't click in the right place. Is this a known issue?

Accessing values in Test Item page

Curt Hicks — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:30:33 GMT

My understanding is that I can run either a project or a single test item from the command line. However, I can't run a group item from the command line.   So, I end up writing a function corresponding to my Group item which essentially just lists the items in the group item separately.

e.g.

function run_webServiceTests_withBrowser() {
   runTest( wsTest_addCardLater, " WS - add Card Later");
   runTest( wsTest_sendMeACard, "WS - Send me a card");
   runTest( drive_WS_signupWithCard, "WS - Signup with cards");
   runTest( wsTest_singleStep_SignupNoCard, "WS - Single Signup - No Cards");
   runTest( wsTest_singleStep_Signup_WithCard, "WS - Single Signup - With Cards");
   runTest( wsTest_adminPortal_signup_WithCard, "WS - Admin Portal Registration - With Cards");
}

So, my actual question is: Is there an easy way to grab the test item names and function calls from the project file, so that I don't end up manually retyping this information ?   I know that it's in the .mds file but not simply enough to parse out.

Thanks, Curt Hicks

Getting the Rows and Columns from Grid

MURUGESAN SHANMUGAM — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 04:13:36 GMT

I've licensed TC7 version and TC9 trial version. In my application i want to get the rows and column count in a flex grid and want to iterate into the grid and get the values.But i'm not getting any properties or methods to get the row and coulmn count of the Grid.

Please let me know if anyone have any idea on this.

Assigning Data Driven value to Object attribute

JC Nordyke — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:22:55 GMT

Not sure if I'm considered a novice, as I have many years using TestPartner, QTP and other tools. Only been using TestComplete about a week now.

TestComplete Version: 9.0.1312.7
Microsoft Windows Version: 7 Enterprise

Scenario:
I've built a data driven keyword test that uses two sheets off of the same .xlsx file. The first loop determines which server I'm going to be testing the web page against. I have all of my servers set up in this file with a 'Run' column with 'Y' denoting which servers I will be testing against. This works great and iterates through the servers. It's the next one that I'm having issues with.

The second loop determines which Forms will be run against each server. This also is set up with a 'Run' column so that I can have all of my data there, but only run specific forms. It selects the Form from a droplist in the AUT based on an object that has the outerText value set to a variable 'FormName' that is passed in from the DataTable. The first one works great. The subsequent times that it goes to pick the Form from the droplist it selects the original value of the 'FormName' variable. I've verified via log messages that the value of 'FormName' is changing.

In looking at the Additional Info it looks like it may be testing against the Cell coordinates, not the attributes.
Sys.Browser("iexplore").Page("Page").Panel("createForm").Frame("createFormPaneliframe").Table(0).Cell(0, 0).Table(0).Cell(7, 2)

Is there some way to reset the object so that it dumps the previous 'FormName' out of the outerText attribute value?

I thought I might have to send the 'FormName' as a parameter to the child keyword test, but there isn't a way to connect the object to the parameter of a keyword test as far as I can tell.

Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?

Activation key always appears

killua zoldaeyck — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:18:42 GMT

Hi,

Our company has purchased ver. 9.10 of TestComplete. So I activated my license (Node-Locked) and finished it. But when i open the software again,it again asked me to activate my license key?! And when I activate it, it says i already had activated the key. Can someone help me with this?

However, one of my coworkers already used this software and the key so I'm thinking that the software only allows one activation.

Thank you!

Firefox object is not being captured

me me — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:06:47 GMT

I'm recording a simple test of opening Firefox and search for a string in google.
After recording I'm trying to run the test and getting this error.
It only manage to open Firefox but fails right after it with this error.
Can anyone please shed some light?

An error occurred while accessing the "Wait" method or property of the "pageMozillaFirefoxStartPage" object.
The object or one of its parent objects was not found.

Object Whose Method or Property Was Accesssed

Alias:	Aliases.browser.pageMozillaFirefoxStartPage
Name mapping item:	NameMapping.Sys.browser.pageMozillaFirefoxStartPage

Object That Was Not Found

Alias:	Aliases.browser.pageMozillaFirefoxStartPage
Name mapping item:	NameMapping.Sys.browser.pageMozillaFirefoxStartPage

Click the link above to view and configure mapping settings for the missing object.

Learn about possible causes of the error

Updating name mapping

Avinash Natekar — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:58:00 GMT

Hi Everyone, I am very new to TC.

Object which I mapped and added to Aliases also, was working fine but now its not being identified. How can i edit \update\ add new properties to the already mapped object. When I right click and say edit , it says object is not existing . When I tried to double click and update name mapping wizard , highlighted the object it said parent object not found. When I selected the parent object and tried update name mapping it is not updating.
Please help step by step procedure to update the object in name mapping.

Testing Geographical Maps and Bar Graphs etc.,

maddhi srikanth — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:42:15 GMT

We are using analytical tools(Desktop Applications) which are coded with .net frameworks.I need a help on a scenario which follows like this
we had a map(India),each state is colored with different colors based on the sales happened according to the legend.For Ex: Sales in a state more than 100 millions it should be shown in green and <100 millions should be shown as red.i want to test,the map is changing according to the legend.

How to compare values in wpf listview values with Excel sheet

maddhi srikanth — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:46:09 GMT

Please help on the following scenario,How to compare each value in wpf list view with values stored in excel sheet.