How to use Test Complete With out Frameworks??

Best tip I could give you is to see it as standard programming... Because scripting is programming.

Use the object browser and learn how to identify objects....

Personnaly, I don't use Name Mapping because it expect the objects to be structured in specific hierarchie and I'm stuck with developers who spend their time changing that.... so instead, I seek for specific object properties of objects or components and developed a generic function that uses FindChildren and returns a null or the object itself.

When automating, you're building a program that will interact with another one... decompose, build function libraries, be modular...  (standard development practices :smileywink: )

Depending on the scripting language, you can even develop your automation in an Object Oriented fashion... C#, JScript do understand the "this" keyword and allowes you to encapsulate properties and methods in objects... thus, allowing lots of code reuse...

Think of a screen as an object.... your script code as a unit... a Test Scenario simply steps from one screen to another and performs whatever controls you want to perform...

Here's a sample of a Browser Class I've built in C# that I use instead of using TestedApp

function myBrowserClass()

{

// Initialisation of FIELDS

this.Component = Object(); // L'object TestComplete.Browser

this.BrowserType = varInteger; // Le type de Browser (int, -1=IE, -2=FF, -3=Chrome)

this.currentPage = Object(); // Object de type Page, Page courante du Browser

this.URL = varString; // URL de la page de type String

this.isVirtual = Boolean();

this.Description = varString;

// A method

this.Open = function(BrowserType,isVirtual) // Instancie un fureteur selon le type

{

if (isVirtual) { // Si on utilise un Browser Virtuel

this.isVirtual = true;

var supported = VirtualBrowsers.Count;

var myName = "chrome";

if (BrowserType<supported) // Est-ce que celui demandé est supporté (Voir dans les Projets-Properties-Open App-Web Test-Virtual

{

var mybrowser = VirtualBrowsers.Item(BrowserType);

Log.Message(mybrowser.UserAgent);

}

this.Description = mybrowser.UserAgent;

} else { // Le fureteur est réel (IE ou autre)

this.isVirtual = false;

switch (BrowserType) {

case "-1" : Log["Message"]("Fureteur demandé : " + "Microsoft Internet Explorer");

var mybrowser = Browsers["Item"](btIExplorer);

var myName = "iexplore";

break;

case "-2" : Log["Message"]("Fureteur demandé : " + "Mozilla Firefox");

var mybrowser = Browsers["Item"](btFirefox);

var myName = "firefox";

break;

case "-3" : Log["Message"]("Fureteur demandé : " + "Google Chrome");

var mybrowser = Browsers["Item"](btChrome);

var myName = "chrome";

break;

case "-6" : Log["Message"]("Fureteur demandé : " + "Edge");

var mybrowser = Browsers["Item"](btEdge);

var myName = "edge";

break;

default : Log["Message"]("Fureteur demandé : " + "Microsoft Internet Explorer");

var mybrowser = Browsers["Item"](btIExplorer);

}

Log.Message("Fureteur : "+ mybrowser.Description);

Log.Message("Family " + mybrowser.Family);

this.Description = mybrowser.Description;

}

mybrowser.Run(Project["Variables"]["StartupURL"]); // La variable StartupURL se retrouve dans tous les projets.

if (myName == 'edge')

this.Component = Sys.Browser(myName); // Pour obtenir le processus du Browser

else

this.Component = Sys.Browser('*',0); // Pour obtenir le processus du Browser

if (!this.isVirtual) { // Si le Browser n'est pas virtuel (les dimensions sont fixes pour les virtuels)

this.Component["BrowserWindow"](0)["Maximize"]();

}

this.BrowserType = BrowserType;

Log["PopLogFolder"]();

return this.Component; // On retourne l'objet Browser

}

this.Navigate = function(url) // Navigue vers l'URL jusqu'à chargement complet

{

Log["AppendFolder"]("Navigation vers l'URL : "+url);

var myClock = HISUtils["StopWatch"];

myClock["Start"]();

var myPage = this.Component["ToUrl"](url);

while (myPage["contentDocument"] == null)

Delay(200);

while (myPage["contentDocument"]["readyState"] != "complete")

myPage["Wait"]();

Project["Variables"]["CurrentPage"]=myPage;

myClock["Stop"]();

//var myName = MakeLogName(Project["Variables"]["MyProject"]);

//PushToLog(myName,"Page ; " + url + " ; "+myClock["ToString"]());

Log["Message"](url + " ; "+myClock["ToString"]());

this.currentPage = myPage;

this.URL = url ;

// this.URL = myPage["URL"];

Log["PopLogFolder"]();

return this.currentPage; // On retourne l'objet Page de la navigation

}

this.Close = function() // Ferme le fureteur

{

this.Component["Close"]();

return null;

}

}

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