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greendarkness
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15 years ago

Duplicate Objects Appear in Tree

I'm testing a web application. There are buttons displayed in a container on the left. The mapping for this uses the idStr which only this container has. When running the tests I encounter object not found errors, when debugging I noticed that the ctl00_mainLeftUpdatePanel container had two entries in the object browser. The source code of the page does not have two. The only differences I can see are the dynamic id, height, width, and objectidentifier is blank for the fake one. I've set the name mapping to use conditional mode now with width not equal to zero to get the correct object. Now when I run the test it sometimes works, but normally errors out still and when seeing where the name mapping points, it continues to point to the object with zero width. The fake object doesn't point to the name mapping, when I check the real object it's name mapping field is filled in correctly. I really have no idea what is going on.

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  • greendarkness's avatar
    greendarkness
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    15 years ago
    update: I've been continuing to mess with this all day and simplified the test I was running, and after some debugging to get it running correctly I was able to get the test to run through multiple times without problems. I just had to restart Firefox a few times so the object browser would start from scratch each time and get rid of all the duplicates. Trying to get the original project to run is still very frustrating, but I'll continue to work with it with a new session of Firefox each time.
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    greendarkness
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    15 years ago
    I had the idea of only using width does not equal zero to map the items that were causing problems. This almost worked, almost, but now I click show in object browser and it shows me the one with zero width for a little bit, then like 2 seconds later switches to the correct one. After a little bit that stopped doing that and just showed the panel with width zero even though the mapping was width does not equal zero.
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    greendarkness
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    15 years ago
    Today I got everything working, ran through the tests and decided to run the first test again before I continued. Got the same problem of the mapped item pointing to something with zero width. As I was confident the tests besides this part worked I decided to move on to running the tests in Internet Explorer. Changing some mapping again to make it run, and it appears that the problems I was facing in Firefox are not an issue in Internet Explorer. Still not too sure what's going on, but seems like it's mapping the first thing on the page, and maybe there are invisible objects to begin with that get replaced, and then the new objects aren't getting added to the mapping during a run, so it's taking the old ones that are not displaying. I have no idea though, any help on would be appreciated.
  • Dmitry_Nikolaev's avatar
    Dmitry_Nikolaev
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    15 years ago

    Hello Nick,





    We are aware of a similar problem with Firefox. However, to be sure that the problem is the same as we know, could you please send us a sample project suite and the link to the page with which the problem can be reproduced? Please pack the entire sample project suite folder and send it to Support along with the link to the tested page.
  • greendarkness's avatar
    greendarkness
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    15 years ago
    Unfortunately the page I'm working with is only available internally. Would you still like the project, or is there some other way to confirm the problem?
  • Dmitry_Nikolaev's avatar
    Dmitry_Nikolaev
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    15 years ago

    Hello Nick,





    Currently, a similar problem is fixed in the upcoming version of TestComplete. I hope your problem will be fixed in this version too. We are going to release the new TestComplete version in the near future. I will let you know as soon as this version is available.
  • greendarkness's avatar
    greendarkness
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    15 years ago
    Another day of testing had a duplicate object show up again in Firefox. Though I was able to fix it with some refresh methods it seems. I guess it isn't fixed in 8.1, though it seems it is happening a lot less than it was. Also, it appears using fresh firefox sessions and name mapping the width as well as calling many refresh and refreshmappinginfo allows the tests to run without a problem. If an error is encountered, for whatever reason, the duplicate object will be detected instead of the actual one.



    I used three statements before any object I was having issues with to get it working. Might not need to use all of these or any, but rather keep using something I know is working.



    DuplicatedObject.Refresh();

    DuplicatedObject.RefreshMappingInfo();

    DuplicatedObject.Parent.Refresh();