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EkremMese1
Contributor
7 months ago

The difference between Recording a Script and directly coding

Hello everyone, I am slowly building up my test cases with TestComplete. I realise that I am intuitively using an approach like that:  1- Using Object Spy and locating Web Elements 2- Passing the...
  • rraghvani's avatar
    rraghvani
    7 months ago

    It won't cause any harm!

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EkremMese1
Contributor
7 months ago

Record feature is creating a lot of items in NameMapping and some of them are not even necessary and it sucks with auto-given name to objects. So that's why I proceed with using Object Spy to NameMap the Object that I really need and give understandable names.

I was curious does my approach harm my TCs in anyway? 

 

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

    It won't cause any harm!

    • eykxas's avatar
      eykxas
      Regular Contributor
      7 months ago

      Unless there are hundreds of mapped elements (or more), which will slow down execution time.

      That's why my project doesn't rely on NameMapping anymore for my webapp.