If I had it all to do over again
If I had it all to do over again I would seriously consider disabling the 'Map object names automatically' before recording automated UI tests. Our developers do a reasonably good job naming objects ...
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Hi William,
Thanks for bringing up this question. Our R&D team are currently collecting feedback about possible issues/misunderstanding related to Name Mapping. That would be great to hear what problematic situations you face and how you usually resolve them. Please share your thoughts.
As for the changes in hierarchy, did you try using Name Mapping’s Extended Find feature?
TanyaYatskovska wrote:Hi William,
Thanks for bringing up this question. Our R&D team are currently collecting feedback about possible issues/misunderstanding related to Name Mapping. That would be great to hear what problematic situations you face and how you usually resolve them. Please share your thoughts.
As for the changes in hierarchy, did you try using Name Mapping’s Extended Find feature?
When there was a hierarchy removed from the mapping we opened the name mapping file in notepad++ and manually (carefully) removed the level. We then opened all the keyword tests at once in Notepad++ and did a find/replace across all keyword test and removed level. Otherwise the tests would no longer be able to find the objects (I seems to me that moving the objects in the object mapping in TC would change the name mapping but it did not and we had to take matters into our own hands). However, there were still many places we had to re-map in TC (I suspect the developer made additional changes which we weren't informed). My suspicion is that had we not name mapped this objects there would have been one less step and less manual re-mapping in TC.
We have extended mapping turned on and see the warnings in the log whenever a test fails.
With regard to better describing / explaining name mappings, my current question are; If we turn off auto 'map names automatically' will this stop the automatic creation of named mapping and if we don't manually create a name mapping will the keyword tests refer to the alias? Are there benefits / drawback to this? We were initially drawn to name mapping as a "friendly name" but it seems there are more drawbacks than benefits because TC doesn't appear to sync object mapping changes with the name mapping.
It's quite possible some of my assumptions are incorrect but I write this from my understanding of the product.
We hardly ever use the automatic mapping. It takes some time at the beginning of a project to map the new parts, but we are able to rename objects to our standard so that they are more easily read in a test. Occasionally we use the automatic mapping on an individual object if we've missed one, but it's been worth the time investment to do most of it manually.
Marsha_R wrote:We hardly ever use the automatic mapping. It takes some time at the beginning of a project to map the new parts, but we are able to rename objects to our standard so that they are more easily read in a test. Occasionally we use the automatic mapping on an individual object if we've missed one, but it's been worth the time investment to do most of it manually.
So you are using name mapping just not the auto naming?
That's correct. We use the name mapping tool and map each screen and its fields individually.
