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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

     

     

TanyaYatskovska's avatar
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
6 years ago

Thanks for the help, Robert.

shivam, was the issue resolved?

  • shivam's avatar
    shivam
    Occasional Contributor
    6 years ago

    Issue is not resolved but rather problem is complicated. Mapping parents and increasing the attributes for identification makes the Object Repository cumbersome (and not helpful). Tool is able to eliminate some of the warnings though by just increasing the Auto wait timeout period.

    When there are too many nodes in the hierarchy the tool is not smart enough to reach the target object. On the other hand if I cut down the parents (in order to decrease number of nodes), then there is ambiguous warning. And there are not enough ID attributes that i can take into consideration. So, at the moment, I am bypassing such objects in my project and trying to find alternate ways to test that element or feature.

    • TanyaYatskovska's avatar
      TanyaYatskovska
      SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
      6 years ago

      Thanks for the update, shivam.

      Please share with us the approach you will decide to use.

    • Poornimak79's avatar
      Poornimak79
      Occasional Contributor
      6 years ago

      hi Shivam 

       

      i am too facing the same issue, can you please share your approcahes if any.. that sounded as best practices.

       

      Appreciate your help.

       

      Thank you

      Poornima

      • shivam's avatar
        shivam
        Occasional Contributor
        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