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mmccollum
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

Test Complete Looses Aliases

Hello, I have built alot of tests with Test Complete, however suddenly my aliases have changed inside of the system. For instance: This: Aliases.javaw.MainWindow.RootPane.null_layeredPane.null_c...
  • sonya_m's avatar
    sonya_m
    5 years ago

    mmccollum , I see.

    Glad that you managed to make it work using this workaround. I’ll mark this as a solution for now.  

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m_essaid
Valued Contributor

Hi,

Not sure to understand but your first line is a mapped object but your second is not a mapped object, you have for example instance numbers...

assuming all that has changed is the name of the process ("javaw" became "java"), you should open your namemapping and just rename this single thing in the mapping tree.

mmccollum's avatar
mmccollum
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

What im saying is the path changed quite a bit using the object spy i get this


Aliases.java.MainWindow.RootPane.null_layeredPane.null_contentPane.SplitPane.SwingObject("JPanel", "", 0).SwingObject("JToggleButton", "Current Status", 1)

What i got last time is
Aliases.javaw.MainWindow.RootPane.null_layeredPane.null_contentPane.SplitPane.Panel.ToggleButton3

  • cunderw's avatar
    cunderw
    Community Hero
    5 years ago

    Are you relying on the automatic mapping (it looks like it)? If so that will never be reliable. You will have to manually manipulate the attribute used to identify you objects to something that is not dynamic.

     

    What it looks like is the panel JPanel for your ToggleButton was mapped with an identifier that is dynamically generated. You also have a full list of aliases that aren't really doing anything for you since you will never interact with things like RootPane, contentPane, etc...

     

    If you have't I suggest reading trough the documentation here: https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/object-identification/index.html as well as watching some of the training videos SmartBear provides. Namemapping takes practice and trial and error to get a solid and reliable mapping setup.