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ratra
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3 years ago
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Can we run Headless Testing without using Xpath?

My current Name Mapping done by 'idStr' and other options but not with Xpath but SmartBear recommending to use Xpath and CSS selectors for successfully Headless Testing. Is there any way to run Head...
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    AlexKaras
    3 years ago

    > Is there any way to run Headless Testing with normal Name Mapping instead of Xpath?

    Alas, no way 😞

     

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rraghvani
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3 years ago

It's clearly stated in the documentation, "Before you start creating cross-platform web tests, make sure that your TestComplete project is configured to locate web objects by their XPath expressions and CSS selectors" - meaning normal name mapping can not be used.