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shreyabhtngr's avatar
shreyabhtngr
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

How can i test hyperlinks on a web page using Test Complete

Currently i am trying to automate a web course which has hyperlinks . i want to test if the hyperlinks are working or not. Test Complete is nit capturing those hyperlinks   What should i do?
  • Colin_McCrae's avatar
    Colin_McCrae
    9 years ago

    It's not a simple web page with hyperlinks on it.

     

    Such as: https://www.google.co.uk/

     

    ... which will appear as a hyper link in my reply.

     

    That would be simple to test. (In fact, try it. Object spy it with TestComplete. Record yourself clicking it and play it back. It should work just fine)

     

    What you have is an embedded document of some sort (a PDF is a fair guess) and it has link embedded within it. PDF's are not the most automation friendly type of document. But whatever type it is (we don't know this because we don't have the page in front of us to inspect), it is obviously obscuring the links to you. But you should be able to extract the link from the PDF or something. Probably. There are a couple of add-on's you can use for TestComplete which make PDF handling a little easier, but I've never used them personally, I'll leave others to comment there.

     

    So you need to figure out two things:

     

    1. What type of embedded document it is, followed by ...

    2. How you extract text/links for that document type.

shreyabhtngr's avatar
shreyabhtngr
Occasional Contributor

Actually I am automating a web course which has hyperlinks. I want to test those hyperlinks and make sure that user is redirecting to correct page. My approach was to click on the hyperlinks and use Property checkpoints to make sure user is navigated to correct page. But on playback I found that Test Complete is not able to click on those hyperlinks and my test fails. I did use Object Spy but it is not working for this scenario as the hyperlinks are inside the parent panel and object spy is not capturing those hyperlinks inside the panel

 

Please find the screenshot

 

Let me know if you need more information from my side

tristaanogre's avatar
tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
9 years ago

It looks like the hyperlinks you are trying to click on are not exactly links on the page but links within a document (PDF?) that is served up by the course. You might need to do things a bit differently there where you will need to capture the document itself, parse it out, and search for the links that way.  Without knowing the specifics, can't get more specific about the "how to".

Short answer is: Yes, you can do what you are asking but it is a bit more complicated than just telling TestComplete to click a link.

  • shreyabhtngr's avatar
    shreyabhtngr
    Occasional Contributor
    9 years ago

    hi tristaanogre,

     

    What additional Info is required ? its an e Course and most of the pages have hyperlinks which i want to test.

    I attached the image for reference. you mentioned i can parse it how can i do that using test Complete. Can you guide me?

     

    • Colin_McCrae's avatar
      Colin_McCrae
      Community Hero
      9 years ago

      It's not a simple web page with hyperlinks on it.

       

      Such as: https://www.google.co.uk/

       

      ... which will appear as a hyper link in my reply.

       

      That would be simple to test. (In fact, try it. Object spy it with TestComplete. Record yourself clicking it and play it back. It should work just fine)

       

      What you have is an embedded document of some sort (a PDF is a fair guess) and it has link embedded within it. PDF's are not the most automation friendly type of document. But whatever type it is (we don't know this because we don't have the page in front of us to inspect), it is obviously obscuring the links to you. But you should be able to extract the link from the PDF or something. Probably. There are a couple of add-on's you can use for TestComplete which make PDF handling a little easier, but I've never used them personally, I'll leave others to comment there.

       

      So you need to figure out two things:

       

      1. What type of embedded document it is, followed by ...

      2. How you extract text/links for that document type.