william_roe Thanks very much for your comment.
I am interested in future comments on this thread as well. Especially by Smartbear / TestComplete staff (management).
Also, and this might be a little bit offtopic: I have no experience with the Find method, as you describe it, I take it that you use it somehow to recognize changes in the application?
We have tried using the Find method to deal with GUI changes but have found it unusably slow (sometimes minutes per object). There are a few places in which we've had to enable extended find but use this feature extremely sparingly due to onerous memory issues.
mgroen2 wrote:william_roe Thanks very much for your comment.
I am interested in future comments on this thread as well. Especially by Smartbear / TestComplete staff (management).
Also, and this might be a little bit offtopic: I have no experience with the Find method, as you describe it, I take it that you use it somehow to recognize changes in the application?
thanks for explanation on the Find method...
You say you have used it (although not usable because it was unusably slow), to find changes in the GUI, but what if (for example) a control was removed from a particular screen in the UI? If you use the find method you fail to find it, but would that give you enough safety that the control was indeed moved? Or maybe the find method has not been given enough time to search for the control?
Do you see what I mean?
mgroen2 wrote:thanks for explanation on the Find method...
You say you have used it (although not usable because it was unusably slow), to find changes in the GUI, but what if (for example) a control was removed from a particular screen in the UI? If you use the find method you fail to find it, but would that give you enough safety that the control was indeed moved? Or maybe the find method has not been given enough time to search for the control?
Do you see what I mean?
mgroen2 The Find method would tell you if the control is no longer on the page (by testing the Exists method of the stub object returned) and any test steps which reference the control would need to be removed (after root cause analysis) to determine if, in fact, it should have been removed. Communication is VERY poor among our team and I seldom get advanced notice of such things. There are half a dozen places where we've use Extended Find when the control is located in differing places within the hierarchy based on external conditions.
william_roe OK, thanks for clarification.
