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EkremMese1
Contributor
6 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
    6 months ago

    It won't cause any harm!

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EkremMese1
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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? 

 

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rraghvani
Champion Level 3
6 months ago

It won't cause any harm!

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    eykxas
    Regular Contributor
    6 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.