Testing a chrome extension with TestComplete
Hello, I'm trying to use TestComplete to test a Chrome extension that is currently in development. When I click on the icon it will display a popup like so: As far as I know there is no...
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Hi thePantz,
Because of the Chrome specifics, TestComplete can only get access to the viewport of the browser - the actual pages you visit. That's why currently there is no way to recognize elements in extension popups. As far as I know, the same goes for Selenium - it only allows you to work with the popup if you open it in Chrome as an individual HTML page, but TestComplete has no issues with this scenario as well.
As a workaround, I can suggest using the image-based approach - finding elements by their images. You can also use Optical Character Recognition to obtain elements by their text (please note that it requires a separate license for the TC IQ add-on).
JuliaBernikova As I explained in my original post, TestComplete cannot locate the elements when you open the popup on an indivudual page. I did not have difficulties when using Selenium so I have gone that route. I will not pay for an Image Recognition module when I can get more reliable results from Selenium.
I should have put it differently: by an individual HTML page, I meant opening HTML locally as a file, not via chrome-extension://. It's good to know that Selenium supports this mode though - the next TestComplete version will introduce a cross-platform web testing feature that allows running tests using Selenium Grid. So, our product team will check if we can make TestComplete work with chrome-extension:// pages too.
