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kaizibaby
New Contributor
11 years ago

Other way to identify UI elements other than using the logical tree

Hi,    In TestComplete, currently the only way to identify an UI element is using Object Spy and logical tree. By giving the UI elements aliases does make the life easier, but when developers chang...
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tonydugay
Contributor
11 years ago

If your developers have given ids to objects, then you can use those as you say - you don't have to use the default properties chosen by TestComplete to identify the objects.  For example, you might use idStr of a Button object when web testing - this might be more robust to change.  Other approches are not to use NameMapping at all, but use functions such as

TestObj.Find(PropNames, PropValues, Depth, Refresh)