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zeekbiboo
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8 months ago
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Marking new checkboxes

Hi! I'm new to testcomplete. I'm working on some web tests and I'm learning how to use testcomplete at all. Well, I wanted to do a test with some checkboxes, the page works in such a way that there ...
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  • Hassan_Ballan's avatar
    Hassan_Ballan
    8 months ago

    Hello,

     Refer to https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/exploring-apps/object-spy/index.html for using Spy. Inspect Spy object detection to look for a property that checks the sate, for example enabled=true. Yo may need to switch the view from basic to advanced view.

    You need to address it in two steps:
    1-The checkbox row, as you have 5 you need to have 5 different mappings one for each
    2-The checkbox state enabled or disabled added to detection properties 

    You could create KeywordTests with following simple logic:
    If checkbox1 property enabled equal true, click it and go to Label
    If checkbox2 property enabled equal true, click it and go to Label
    If checkbox4 property enabled equal true, click it and go to Label
    If checkbox5 property enabled equal true, click it
    Label

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JDR2500
Frequent Contributor
8 months ago

This might present an opportunity to dabble in scripts.  What you're describing could be accomplished in a very simple script.  That script could then be called/run from your keyword test.  Your keyword test would still be the thing you'd run from the execution plan.  Your simple script would just take care of the checkbox checking part.

It could be accomplished in ~half a dozen lines in a script.  For instance, the FindChild method would let you find a checkbox that's enabled.  Once found, you could click it directly in the script or in your Keyword test using a project variable.

Hassan_Ballan's suggestion is a good one too.  However, it might become untenable if the number of check boxes grew well beyond five.  That would require many name mappings.

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Hassan_Ballan
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8 months ago

JDR2500 you are right in your assessment; however, as a new user and not code savvy I thought a simpler approach would go a long way with zeekbiboo.

There are many ways to deliver and without specifics it would also be hard to suggest the best approach. I will try to make an example for all interested to pitch in and be on the same page.