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william_roe
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10 years ago
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Selecting Item(s) in Dynamic, Multi-select lists in Data-Driven Test

How do you create a data-driven test which checks item(s) in a list using a value and not a mapped object? I created a data-driven test with multiple if statements which clicked on the mapped object o...
  • TanyaYatskovska's avatar
    TanyaYatskovska
    10 years ago
    Hi Keith,

     


    You can use the FindChildByXPath method. Here is the sample that obtains the check-box element based on the value specified in the Description column:


    var grid=//...obtain the grid object:

     var obj = grid.FindChildByXPath("//td[text()='Administrator Access']/parent::node()//input", false);


     


    To learn more about XPath expressions, I suggest that you refer to this tutorial.


     

Colin_McCrae's avatar
Colin_McCrae
Community Hero
10 years ago
Yep.



You have all the info you need there.



You would need to iterate through it looking for a match with the user selected value in your data driver.



Then select it if you find it or log out an error if you don't.



Not familiar with that specific control so I wouldn't like to guess on details. But I can see enough info in the parts you've captured to know it's do-able.



(Also don't know what language you're scripting in!)



In pseudo-language though, something like:







Initialise "found" flag



Loop



> Check the current selection vs the one you want

> If they match .... select that one and set a flag to "found"



Until (match found) or (out of options)



If (no match) Then



> log error



End If





Something like that.