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shivam's avatar
shivam
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago

Facing "Ambiguous object recognition" warning for several objects

I am facing "Ambiguous recognition of tested object" warning several times on various pages and objects of my web application. I have tried to improve the mapping information for these objects by addi...
  • shivam's avatar
    shivam
    6 years ago

    Hi Poornima,

     

    Try these:

    1. Increase the 'Auto wait timeout period' in project settings
    2. Improve mapping information of target object:  by adding some additional attributes in identification properties
    3. Improve mapping information of parents (of the target object): a) by by adding some additional attributes in identification properties, b) by adding a greater number of nodes in object tree hierarchy
    4. Disable the 'Show ambiguous warning' for the object 
      Note: Step 4 does not solve the problem just masks the warning in logs. And it is quite possible that your script may fail when run on remote machine or under some different environment and configuration (like screen resolution)

     

    P.S : I am still working for the concrete solution (or you can say, a satisfying workaround) to this problem.

     

    BR,

    Shivam

     

     

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
6 years ago

The solution is to keep doing what you have been doing.  Try to work on nailing down the property set to use for the object.  Basically, the warning means that the identification properties for your object are not specific enough and TC has found 2 or more objects that match your criteria.

Sure, it may seem silly to include all the panels... but that might help.  And, keep in mind, you may need to MAP all the panels, but your Alias doesn't need to include them all.  That's the beauty of Aliases... it allows you to make amore "consumable" object reference while masking all the hierarchy in your main mapping.