struggling with High maintenance cost due to UI changes

Hello,

Does the changes

- are no predictible at all ?

- are ui functional only ?

- are technical (name/type of field) also ?

These kind of change are always costly but you can optimize with some script logic.

I give you my way.

- Create one object/method by screen page.

- Input of each of these methods is a string of triplets; name of field:type of field=value or with a bi dimensional array.

- On your method do a loop on these values and for each element you know the name and type of the field to modify and the target value. So you can make a switch on the type for doing the correct action.

- You can also just make a switch on the name of the field, so UI changes is just adding the field in the switch.

Example for last option:

      // *** PAGE IDENTIFICATION CONDUCTEUR ***
      /* Edit:              
           Code postal                zipCode
           Nom                        cardholderSurname
           Prénom                     cardholderFirstName
           Numéro immatriculation     plateNumber
           Numéro série               vehicleSerialNumber
         Select:
           Civilité                   title
           Pays                       country
         Case à cocher:
           Titulaire carte grise      isContractor, isDriver, isOther
           Loi Hamon                  hasContractWithOtherInsurer
      */
      saisieIdentificationConducteur:function(Data) {
        let trace = this.methodStart("saisieIdentificationConducteur(" + Data + " ) - Saisie du formulaire Identification conducteur du contrat");
        try {
          let container = qa.system.findIt(Sys.Browser("*").Page("*"), "ObjectIdentifier", "policyVehicleForm", qa.system.time.longer, 15, true, true);
          let recherche = Data.split(";");
          let fields;
          for (let i = 0; i < recherche.length; i++) {
            if (recherche[i] != "") {
              fields = recherche[i].split("=");
              switch (fields[0]) {
                case "souscripteurHamon" :
                  if (fields[1] == "oui")
                    qa.web.findItWeb("id", "hasContractWithOtherInsurer", "INPUT")[0].Click();
                  break;
                case "titulaire" :
                  switch (fields[1]) {
                    case "conducteur" :
                      qa.web.findItWeb("id", "isDriver", "INPUT")[0].Click();
                      break;
                    case "souscripteur" :
                      qa.web.findItWeb("id", "isContractor", "INPUT")[0].Click();
                      break;
                    case "autre" :
                      qa.web.findItWeb("id", "isOther", "INPUT")[0].Click();
                      break;
                  }
                  break;
                case "plateNumber" :
                case "vehicleSerialNumber" :  
                case "cardholderSurname" :
                case "cardholderFirstName" :
                case "zipCode" :
                  qa.system.findIt(container, "ObjectIdentifier", fields[0], 0, 10, true, true).Keys(fields[1] + "[Tab]");
                  break;
                case "title" :
                case "country" :
                  qa.web.selectValueInHTMLCombo(fields[0], fields[1]);
                  break;
                default :
                  throw Error("Saisie identification conducteur, champ '" + fields[0] + "' non géré/incorrect !");         
              }
            }
          }
          this.etapeSuivante();
        } 
        catch(e) {
          errorString = qa.system.logExceptionByLevel(e, trace);
        }
        finally {
          return this.methodStop(true);
        }
      },