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littlebear
Contributor
2 months ago

Improve test performance message creating blank selectors

Hello, In my test, I am manipulating my selector for an object using variables. It only has one selector. For example: //div[@role='main']/div[%ProjectDiv%] Because of this, I am frequently gett...
  • Hassan_Ballan's avatar
    Hassan_Ballan
    2 months ago

    Hello,

    Long ago, I reported to SmartBear this "improve my performance" feature resulting in an "Empty" entry, and gave up on using it.

    Also I learned to ignore the log messages of "improve my performance" as they do not make sense since my constructed XPath is a simple one.

    I have been using string variables %Button% = 'Save', I did not try integer variables %ProjectDiv% = 1, could that make a difference?

    To minimize these occurrences, keep in mind that NameMapping Aliases have parent child multi level structure, where Mapped objects are page and a flat out list of nodes. If your Mapped objects also consist of parent child multi level structure, you will get such performance message. 

    Hope this is helpful.

Hassan_Ballan's avatar
Hassan_Ballan
Frequent Contributor
2 months ago

Hello,

Long ago, I reported to SmartBear this "improve my performance" feature resulting in an "Empty" entry, and gave up on using it.

Also I learned to ignore the log messages of "improve my performance" as they do not make sense since my constructed XPath is a simple one.

I have been using string variables %Button% = 'Save', I did not try integer variables %ProjectDiv% = 1, could that make a difference?

To minimize these occurrences, keep in mind that NameMapping Aliases have parent child multi level structure, where Mapped objects are page and a flat out list of nodes. If your Mapped objects also consist of parent child multi level structure, you will get such performance message. 

Hope this is helpful.

  • littlebear's avatar
    littlebear
    Contributor
    2 months ago

    I've changed my parts of my Namemapping file to the multi-level structure, because I thought that would make it faster? I don't know if that's true though. Your advice is helpful.

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      Hassan_Ballan
      Frequent Contributor
      2 months ago

      I would think it would make it slower as multiple searches needs to take place, hence the performance message. In a single XPath search you can find your element, and you can construct it to find parent than find child
      //div[.='branch']//div[.='parent')]//a[.='element']