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MarcusBengtsson's avatar
MarcusBengtsson
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3 years ago

How to do when ID always changes

Hello! I have this checkbox that seems to be changing id every time I re-run the test (on web)   it looks like this  //div[@id='gridIKgbvJEL']//tr/td/i[contains(@class, 'c-grid-checkbox')]") last...
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rraghvani
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3 years ago

You should ask that question to the developers of the application! The control could be dynamically generated. 

 

I also have something similar, on the application that I test, where the "id" is always changing. I have to use different properties to identify the object instead. I'm not using XPath, which makes things easier!

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XPath example for the above control,

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Question. Is it necessary for you to use XPath? Are you testing on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS?

 

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    MarcusBengtsson
    Frequent Contributor
    3 years ago

    I am testing on Windows, and its on the web. I dont think its "necessary" to use xpath really haha.