Hi folks,
I'm recently trying to run my web-based tests in headless mode and I found a blocking issue that the mapped elements does not have child elements. Therefore, FindChild method (and other Find methods) fails to find child elements in such element. The mapped element alone is found. It just shows ChildCount = 0. Please see the attached image. Does anyone experience the same issue?
Are your UI Objects dynamically drawn? And you are using XPath to locate the objects?
Hi, I'm not sure about dynamically drawn objects (the UI is Angular-based). But yes, I'm locating elements via xpaths and css. As mentioned, the test works fine in normal browser. And partially, it works also in headless mode. For example login works fine and even the property checkpoint for mapped element works fine...
It's just that the mapped element returns 0 children elements.
Have a read through https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/app-testing/web/general/common-tasks/dynamic-pages.html . Are you able to find out if those objects are dynamically drawn?
I'm having a feeling those objects are not being shown, until something has been clicked on or the page is loaded.
Just an update, the SmartBear team was able to reproduce the issue and admitted that I found a bug. So, the headless mode is currently useless for us and we have to wait for the fix. At least the bug was finally confirmed :D
Great!
I think we should get paid for testing their software and finding bugs, as well as trying to test our own software :)
