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troyyerJP
Contributor
10 months ago

Running Edge in IE mode not seeing elements

Hi ,

I saw this mentioned a few times, but I didnt see any resolution as such. (https://community.smartbear.com/discussions/testcomplete-questions/running-edge-in-ie-mode/260427)

Currently I have a Web App under test, that is opened up in Edge using IE mode.

I have tried the TestComplete v15 Edge Plugin as well as the chrome Edge plug in and it does view the element on the  Edge Chromium page, when Edge is opened normally. However when I have tried to open the web application in Edge IE mode, at this point TestComplete cannot capture or view any components

Version of TestComplete tried 15.60.44.7

Plug-ins tried 

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/smartbear-test-extension/hlicljijpmhapnbjeddcmimplcalfkic <-- v15

Trying chrome plugin
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/smartbear-test-extension/phbpiacnjjgjkdnemiaakobckdigehbp <-- v15

the app is already mentioned  in my Allowed sites for IE mode as per https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/internet-explorer-mode-in-microsoft-edge-6604162f-e38a-48b2-acd2-682dbac6f0de

 

Note: I have found a hacky way to get Internet Explorer 11 to open, but unsure how long this hack would work. Using this way the page was viewable by the object spy within the actual IE 11 window (iexplore.exe). however when I then tried to change the browser in the scrpit to Edge and run the test it would then not execute

Browsers.Item[btEdge].Run("UrlofbadinternalapprunninginIE11mode") 

any suggestions on what to change on my machine for this to work?

  • troyyerJP's avatar
    troyyerJP
    10 months ago

    Ok on looking at the screenshot you provided of the TestComplete Object Browser it seems like it maps the page as a browserWindow rather than a page

    So trying to using the TestRecorder plugin to click and record a test is actually useless in this situation as it will show what was the previous visible Browser Page

    Screenshot below shows that I am on the site "The Internet (the-internet.herokuapp.com)" in IE mode yet the Object recorder Spy marks that the Page being viewed is the previously opened page before the Edge Browser opens IE mode

    so for the case of recording in Edge IE Mode, you have to  

    1. having the TestComplete Extension to view Edge in the TestComplete Object Browser
    2. Open the Page under test in IE Mode
    3. enter TestComplete and open the Object Browser Tab
    4. Expand the Browser("edge") node and keep traversing down to the Frame and Tab that has the website

    now you can view the elements of the page within the Object but you cannot record a Keyword test or a Script Test. you will have to manually add the object from the Object Browser to your Name Mapping and then script it out accordingly

    so a Browser test that would normally go from 

    browser --> page --> element 

    will have to go to the Alias of the shell object viewer which has the view of the page.  

    def Test1():
      browser = Aliases.browser
      browserWindow = browser.BrowserWindow
      Browsers.Item[btEdge].Navigate("https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/")
      Aliases.browser.BrowserWindow.Chrome_WidgetWin_2.BrowserWindow.FrameTab.tabpage.ShellDocObjectView.browser.pageTheInternet.linkBrokenImages.click()

  • rraghvani's avatar
    rraghvani
    Champion Level 3
    10 months ago

    You are using TC v15.60.44.7? I suggest you try an older version such as v15.55, as there's been ongoing issues with various releases.

    • troyyerJP's avatar
      troyyerJP
      Contributor
      10 months ago

      It didn't really matter what version I had tried...didn't get it to work

      15.59 was first tried, then I did the update to 15.60 cause it came thru as an auto update. then deleted that version and downloaded 15.48.

       

  • troyyerJP's avatar
    troyyerJP
    Contributor
    10 months ago

    Ok on looking at the screenshot you provided of the TestComplete Object Browser it seems like it maps the page as a browserWindow rather than a page

    So trying to using the TestRecorder plugin to click and record a test is actually useless in this situation as it will show what was the previous visible Browser Page

    Screenshot below shows that I am on the site "The Internet (the-internet.herokuapp.com)" in IE mode yet the Object recorder Spy marks that the Page being viewed is the previously opened page before the Edge Browser opens IE mode

    so for the case of recording in Edge IE Mode, you have to  

    1. having the TestComplete Extension to view Edge in the TestComplete Object Browser
    2. Open the Page under test in IE Mode
    3. enter TestComplete and open the Object Browser Tab
    4. Expand the Browser("edge") node and keep traversing down to the Frame and Tab that has the website

    now you can view the elements of the page within the Object but you cannot record a Keyword test or a Script Test. you will have to manually add the object from the Object Browser to your Name Mapping and then script it out accordingly

    so a Browser test that would normally go from 

    browser --> page --> element 

    will have to go to the Alias of the shell object viewer which has the view of the page.  

    def Test1():
      browser = Aliases.browser
      browserWindow = browser.BrowserWindow
      Browsers.Item[btEdge].Navigate("https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/")
      Aliases.browser.BrowserWindow.Chrome_WidgetWin_2.BrowserWindow.FrameTab.tabpage.ShellDocObjectView.browser.pageTheInternet.linkBrokenImages.click()