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aazimurj
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

Performance comparison between FindChildByXpath and EvaluateXpath

Hi,    Can someone please help me understand if there is any difference between FindChildByXpath and EvaluateXpath functions with respect to performance?   My understanding of these functions from...
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TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
9 years ago

Hi Aazimurj,

 

As far as I know, the only difference between the methods is that FindChildByXPath starts searching for an object among child objects, while EvaluateXPath starts searching within the object you call the method. So, theoretically, EvaluateXPath can work a bit longer. However, I don’t think that the time difference should very high.

 

BTW, what TestComplete version are you using? There was a known issue in TestComplete 11.10 – searching for objects via XPath could take much time. This issues was fixed in TestComplete 11.11.