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arybalka's avatar
arybalka
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

How to/improve performance of my function/JavaScript

Hi every one, I am using very often my function to fill text fields, dropdowns or calendar/date select fields. It is working properly but I am not really happy with performance. Any advise how to m...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    8 years ago

    The problem, I believe, is in your use of the "Find" method on the NativeWebObject of the page. This is searching the entire page for the object that you want.  Instead of searching the whole page, there are other objects like Panel or Table or Cell within the page that are child objects in the page.  The further down the hierarchy you go so that you're close to the desired object, the faster the Find method will run (less objects to search through).  This would be my first step in improving performance... improve your Find to search closer to the desired object.

arybalka's avatar
arybalka
Occasional Contributor

Thanks, I tried to use object spy to find(or define an object) and the function that is suggested by TestComplet to this object and it is really faster. But in that case I have a huge line of code just to click. I understand that I can map that object and use my allias, but is there any way to avoid mapping?

I am not really strong, so if you can give me one line of code with generic example (how can I find an object <objects like Panel or Table or Cell> and reference to tutorial - it will be perfect. 

Thanks.

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
8 years ago

Without using mapping, you're going to have to build out your own object model to utilize find/findChild methods to search for and identify objects.  Those methods would then return objects that you can then pass into your "click" function.  This is going to take some programming.  This is one advantage that Mapping has over this methodology in that you don't need to be a "good" programmer to utilize the NameMapping feature.  You can map and organize objects and use them directly via Aliases within your test code without having to build identification methodology.