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Southpaw
Contributor
6 years ago

From UFT to TestComplete

Hello,    Our shop is currently evaluating TestComplete. Ive used UFT for several years. Can someone give me an example what TestComplete's approach to what is defined as 'descriptive programming' ...
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Southpaw
Contributor
6 years ago

Tanya, 

  XPath is my preferred way to identify objects. So this is really helpful to know. I appreciate the suggestion. 

Thanks

Chris

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
6 years ago

Personally, I steer clear of XPath... and here's why... finding something via XPath will return something... but that something might not be a UI object that can be operated on with the standard wrapper actions/methods from TestComplete.  Our pal AlexKaras can give a better explanation.  

The primary method (preferred and recommended) for object identification in TestComplete is via the NameMapping engine which builds an object hierarchy structure where objects are identified by a) what they are a child object of and b) a set of object properties used as identifciation criteria.  So, your example would look, in the TestComplete programming, like

Aliases.browser.pageMyPage.buttonLogoff.Click()

 

See https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/object-identification/name-mapping/about.html and all related articles.