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javlon
13 years ago

How to get a focus on a dialog window that changes everytime

I have a dialog window that has textfields and buttons. I record clicks, entries and once I click submit and reopen that window, all of the pre-recorded operations are not recognized(cant find the obj...
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AlexKaras
Community Hero
13 years ago
Hi Javlon,



Most probably, the values of parameters used to identify UI elements during recording are dynamic and thus identification fails on subsequent test runs.

I would recommend this video (http://support.smartbear.com/support/screencasts/testcomplete/reliable-tests-for-dynamic-objects/), this article (http://blog.smartbear.com/software-quality/automated-test-scripts-a-name-mapping-user-story/) and relevant help topics (especially about name mapping templates one - http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/32722/).