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william_roe
Super Contributor
10 years ago

Extended Find

I discovered the 'Use extended find when possible' option was enabled when we disabled 'Map object names automatically' feature was disabled. We don't want object automatically mapped due to merging ...
  • Colin_McCrae's avatar
    Colin_McCrae
    10 years ago

    I tend not to use it.

     

    But thats because I prefer to know if ANYTHING changes in an application so I can check with the developers if it's intentional.

     

    I also do all my mapping manually and VERY carefully. (Ditto the Alias map - which should be much smaller, and much more human-readable than the full name map.)

     

    Takes more time up front, but pays off in the long run.

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Colin_McCrae
Community Hero

I tend not to use it.

 

But thats because I prefer to know if ANYTHING changes in an application so I can check with the developers if it's intentional.

 

I also do all my mapping manually and VERY carefully. (Ditto the Alias map - which should be much smaller, and much more human-readable than the full name map.)

 

Takes more time up front, but pays off in the long run.

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AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
10 years ago

I would absolutely agree with Colin.

I like to use Extended Find option, but just because for my tests the changes in internal structure of the AUT are irrelevant but tests stability across different versions of AUT is of primary importance. Which means: as long as some object (e.g. Save button) can be found within some parent area, we are not interested in its exact location.

 

And I have my both hands up voting for the mapping done manually and use of Aliases but not Namamapping object in test code with the Aliases tree organized according to the end-user UI experience and AUT logic.

  • william_roe's avatar
    william_roe
    Super Contributor
    10 years ago

    Thanks for the feedback. I wish I had known about extended find before getting a year under my belt. I'm going to remove the extended find via Notepad ++ and start over.