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Occasional Contributor

4 years ago

Property checkpoints (beginner question)

Hi everyone im brand new to test complete and i currently just going through beginner videos

To start with i was trying to test this budget application i made with javascript

Its just a simple app where you can input your income and expenses and keep track of an overall budget

What im trying to test is when the user inputs for example a 'Salary' of a grand the overall budget increases to a grand

e.g.

So what im trying to test is when i input a thousand it goes to 1 thousand

So i made a new test and recorded

Clicking the textbox
Typing '1000'
And clicking the check button

After i did that i added a new property checkpoint

So i made it so the test checks it equals '+ 1,000.00'

However on running the test it fails

I cant seem to figure out why they dont match looking at the html its just a standard element

How do i get it so it checks that the exact value is '+ 1,000.00'

Any help would be appreciated thank you

Checkpoints

Keyword Tests

Test Results

Larry_M
4 years ago
Hello HarryJ ,

You might consider using the OCR checkpoint. It is available via a button at the top of the second page of the Checkpoint Wizard. TestComplete will make an image of the control and visually extract the text from the image. It is very accurate and powerful.

Good Luck!

Larry

Larry_M
New Contributor
4 years ago
Hello HarryJ ,

You might consider using the OCR checkpoint. It is available via a button at the top of the second page of the Checkpoint Wizard. TestComplete will make an image of the control and visually extract the text from the image. It is very accurate and powerful.

Good Luck!

Larry
- HarryJ
  Occasional Contributor
  4 years ago
  That worked wonders Thanks!
Marsha_R
Moderator
4 years ago
I would guess that when the test runs, it's getting to that line before the object is actually there to check.

Just to test that theory, put a Delay of several seconds before the line that fails

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/keyword-testing/reference/misc/delay.html

Let us know either way. If the Delay fixes it, there's a better practice for doing that, using Wait, but I don't want to pile on solutions if that's not the problem. Delay is just a quick way to check.

Welcome to TestComplete!
- HarryJ
  Occasional Contributor
  4 years ago
  The delay doesnt seem to change anything im afraid
  - Marsha_R
    Moderator
    4 years ago
    
    Okay, what you can see in here is that the Actual value is showing the control characters around the value you want and not just your value.
    
    There are a couple of things to try. Look at the checkpoint again and see if you can drill down farther than the panel and get a property that's just your value without the extra characters. If not, then we can look at using aqString to take that actual value apart and just find the bit that you need.