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geneticmaterial
Contributor
4 years ago

Read entries in browser console

Hopefully, a simple question. If the developer has implemented something that logs to the browser console. Is there a way that testComplete can get hold of the logged message?
  • geneticmaterial's avatar
    geneticmaterial
    4 years ago

    I am no longer exploring this as an option 9writing and reading from logs.

     

    Smartbear have come back to me offering a solution but it's a difficult one to implement, also we (dev and I) have chosen not to use the console to retrieve data.

     

    the solution provided by smartbear should anyone need it is:

    Regarding getting values from the browser console via TestComplete: I would recommend you try using the MSAA feature. To use the MSAA feature, please follow these steps:
     
    1. Open your project in TestComplete.
     
    2. Choose Tools -> Current Project Properties, then go to Open Applications -> MSAA.
     
    3. Once there, check the "*" property checkbox.
     
    4. Save the project and refresh the object browser.
     
    After that, it becomes possible to get the values of the browser console fields. Please watch this video [https://s3.amazonaws.com/webtocasefiles/2021/1cc03977-14ec-e4e8-17bf-d95a1ef2b2b3/2021_07_01-21_34_45_993/MSAA_console_browser.mp4?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAILZDL6PV2PCURZRA&Expires=1711564499&Signature=6GWVHKxtk8i%2Blv9oi30JJ46EFsY%3D&] to check how the values from the Chrome browser console are recognized in TestComplete (with the MSAA feature turned on).

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geneticmaterial
Contributor

Yes, this is something I'm going to explore

geneticmaterial's avatar
geneticmaterial
Contributor
4 years ago

I am no longer exploring this as an option 9writing and reading from logs.

 

Smartbear have come back to me offering a solution but it's a difficult one to implement, also we (dev and I) have chosen not to use the console to retrieve data.

 

the solution provided by smartbear should anyone need it is:

Regarding getting values from the browser console via TestComplete: I would recommend you try using the MSAA feature. To use the MSAA feature, please follow these steps:
 
1. Open your project in TestComplete.
 
2. Choose Tools -> Current Project Properties, then go to Open Applications -> MSAA.
 
3. Once there, check the "*" property checkbox.
 
4. Save the project and refresh the object browser.
 
After that, it becomes possible to get the values of the browser console fields. Please watch this video [https://s3.amazonaws.com/webtocasefiles/2021/1cc03977-14ec-e4e8-17bf-d95a1ef2b2b3/2021_07_01-21_34_45_993/MSAA_console_browser.mp4?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAILZDL6PV2PCURZRA&Expires=1711564499&Signature=6GWVHKxtk8i%2Blv9oi30JJ46EFsY%3D&] to check how the values from the Chrome browser console are recognized in TestComplete (with the MSAA feature turned on).

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    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    4 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Thank you for sharing the suggestion from Support.

    Another idea that I got is to ask your developer to add some hidden field to the page and post log messages to this field. You should be able to access this field from TestComplete and analyze its contents. The major problem that I see here is to not forget to remove this field in production.

     

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    geneticmaterial
    Contributor
    4 years ago

    Hi, no worries. Good to share as there isn't online really!

     

    This data is actually held in a JSON variable in a script in the HTML

    We were having trouble getting the item that is actually held in browser memory (after it had been transformed by numerous of the dev's javascripts).

    We did finally get a solution to this and found it being held on the browser window so all is good there.

     

    I also need to capture the details of event listener triggers, so we are taking the same approach and built another array to hold these events  which I get hold of in the same way (although we are having issues getting object members from this array; the objects are all undefined...so any help here would be nice 😉 )