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DCat1223
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10 years ago

Help referring to an object in an automated Keyword test...

Good afternoon. I am testing a web based SharePoint application used to enroll employees and their family members in healthcare and dental plans. I have run into a snag creating an automated test to ...
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    DCat1223
    10 years ago

    Colin_McCrae and Marsha_R,

     

    I think I may have just figured this out - 5 minutes after my last post to you both.

     

    I started to tinker with the findObject Keyword test object, thinking I could do a find for dependent3 and if not found then look for dependent4 and do the required action.  Using that, I selected the button of the first dependent listed using the Object Spy in the findObject and it displayed as: Aliases.browser.pageHealthcareDependents.formEnrollmentform.table.cellDependentcellDependentcontai.panelCovered.

     

    Not the expected name containing "dependent4".  With nothing to lose, I put that in my test and it worked for both dependents 4 and 5!

     

    They say "even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while."  I guess this squirrel just found a nut. :) 

     

    I really want to thank you both for the time you've put into helping me out with this.  I just wonder why the findObject would yield a different result than the property. 

     

    Thank you!

     

    Dave.

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DCat1223
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Thank you, Marsha.  I really appreciate the feedback.  Not the answer I was hoping for but thank you none the less. 

 

I am not stuck on it deleting the first dependent, necessarily.  I just need to know the actual names of the dependents so i can ask to telete that dependent.  Are you aware of a way to determine the names?  If I can define if a dependent is definitively DependentX, I can have the test delete DependentX.  Is there a way to get the object name?

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Marsha_R
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10 years ago

Will the Object Spy let you look at the box with the actual name in it?  What does it show you there?

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    DCat1223
    Frequent Contributor
    10 years ago

    Yes.  The FullName property is:

    Sys.Browser("iexplore").Page("https://xxxxxxxxxxxxx/BenefitsEnrollment/Pages/HealthDependents.aspx").Form("EnrollmentForm").Panel("BenefitsEnrollment_ParentContainer").Panel("BenefitsEnrollment_ContentArea").Panel("BenefitsEnrollment_Left").Panel("BenefitsEnrollment_Main").Panel("BodyPlaceHolder_DependentsControl_DependentsPanel").Panel(1).Table(0).Cell(1, 0).Panel("dependent5").Panel(1).Panel(2).

     

    In this particular case, the first dependent displayed happens to be "dependent5."

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      DCat1223
      Frequent Contributor
      10 years ago

      Let me rephrase my question:  are you aware of any way for the test case to find this full name an use it to navigate to and remove coverage from the dependent?  In other words, can the automation do this step and determine the correct name, then set that dependent as not covered?

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        Marsha_R
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        10 years ago

        Probably, if we can figure out how to convince it to do so.  ;)

         

        Sys.Browser("iexplore").Page("https://xxxxxxxxxxxxx/BenefitsEnrollment/Pages/HealthDependents.aspx").Form("EnrollmentForm").Panel("BenefitsEnrollment_ParentContainer").Panel("BenefitsEnrollment_ContentArea").Panel("BenefitsEnrollment_Left").Panel("BenefitsEnrollment_Main").Panel("BodyPlaceHolder_DependentsControl_DependentsPanel").Panel(1).Table(0).Cell(1, 0).Panel("dependent5").Panel(1).Panel(2).

         

         

        Is this Panel(1) telling you that it's the first dependent?  Or is it the Table(0)?   If you Object Spy the second dependent displayed, what do you get?