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Moulya_p's avatar
Moulya_p
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

How do I switch between two browser windows?

Hello Everyone,   I have a script where I need to switch back to the previously opened browser window and perform some actions using TestComplete. I tried using the SetFocus() and Focus() method ...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    7 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Usually, for web testing with TestComplete, you should work with Page object that is a child of the browser process but not with browser windows.

    With this in mind, just refer to the required Page and it should be activated by TestComplete itself.
    E.g.:

    var page1 = Aliases.browser.Page('www.example.com/AdministerUsers/*');

    ...

    // some link/button was clicked that opens new page

    var page2 = Aliases.browser.Page('www.example.com/CommonUsersArea/*');

    ...

    // do something within page2

    ...

    // switch back to page1

    page1.Button('Create new user').Click();

    ...

     

  • SaravanaKumar_N's avatar
    SaravanaKumar_N
    7 years ago

    Yes, we also follow the same approach - POM. And created NameMapping for each page - HomePage, HelpPage, etc.

    Each page can be accessed like - 

    Alaises.webApp.homePage....

    Alaises.webApp.helpPage....

AlexKaras's avatar
AlexKaras
Champion Level 3

Hi,

 

Usually, for web testing with TestComplete, you should work with Page object that is a child of the browser process but not with browser windows.

With this in mind, just refer to the required Page and it should be activated by TestComplete itself.
E.g.:

var page1 = Aliases.browser.Page('www.example.com/AdministerUsers/*');

...

// some link/button was clicked that opens new page

var page2 = Aliases.browser.Page('www.example.com/CommonUsersArea/*');

...

// do something within page2

...

// switch back to page1

page1.Button('Create new user').Click();

...

 

SaravanaKumar_N's avatar
SaravanaKumar_N
Contributor
7 years ago

Yes, we also follow the same approach - POM. And created NameMapping for each page - HomePage, HelpPage, etc.

Each page can be accessed like - 

Alaises.webApp.homePage....

Alaises.webApp.helpPage....

  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    7 years ago

    SaravanaKumar_N:
    Hi,

     

    > we also follow the same approach - POM.

    Actually, in my reply I talked about page object provided by TestComplete for web pages opened in browsers, but not about Page Object Model pattern.

    While you may implement it in your TestComplete code, TestComplete already provides a kind of it via its objects tree of the tested application (visualized in the Object Browser) and Namemapping/Aliases. However, implementation of POM in Selenium and Aliases in TestComplete has a different architecture and may cause unexpected behaviour if used blindly like in code samples for Selenium/Appium/etc. without considering TestComplete's specifics.

     

    • SaravanaKumar_N's avatar
      SaravanaKumar_N
      Contributor
      7 years ago

      I confused your 'page' object with our page object model :smileyhappy:

      The one we have is test complete version of page object model, we follow that idea but not the entire Selenium framework. Ofcourse tools are different and their strength are different.

      Initialy we used this pattern for desktop tool automation, I gone through many ideas here in this forum. We did not find much difficulties, now applied the same kind of logic with our web automation as well with slight changes related to web.