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rancan's avatar
rancan
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

Verifiy link address on firefox

Hi, I am still exploring on how TestComplete works.   Currently, I am trying to create a test to verifiy the support link provided on the software opens the expected website address.   As I have ...
  • BenoitB's avatar
    BenoitB
    5 years ago

    lol ... no it was an example MyValue :smileyhappy:

     

    So here you must make that,

    function CheckWebURL(UrlToCheck) { 
      //Assuming that no need of browser exists check so just check if an url is given to be checked and if current browser current page url contains this url 
      if (typeof UrlToCheck == 'string') { 
        var posUrl = aqString.Find(Sys.Browser("*").Page("*").URL, UrlToCheck, 0 , false); 
        return ((UrlToCheck != "") && (posUrl >=0) && (posUrl < 9)) 
      } 
      else {
        Log.Message("UrlToCheck is incorrect");
        return false;
      }
    }

    typeof return the type of the variable

    it could be 'undefined', 'string', 'number' or 'Object'  (array are included in Object)

    Here you want a string, so checking if type is string is double check:  variable is definied and it's type is string.

     

    On your function, MyValue is here not defined ...

    And it will return return true, because by default function returns true. And you don't specify the return value in case of bad type (Log.Message doesn't change return value, Log.Error yes).

     

    Good place to learn data type here:

    https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_datatypes.asp

     

     

rancan's avatar
rancan
Occasional Contributor

Thank you very very much for helping me out. 

So here's what I have..

 

function CheckWebURL(UrlToCheck) {
  //Assuming that no need of browser exists check so just check if an url is given to be checked and if current browser current page url contains this url
 if (typeof MyValue != 'undefined'){
  var posUrl = aqString.Find(Sys.Browser("*").Page("*").URL, UrlToCheck, 0 , false);
  return ((UrlToCheck != "") && (posUrl >=0) && (posUrl < 9))
 }
 else{
  Log.Message("Error on identifying the link");
 }
}

However, it gave me the result of the else condition, instead, "error on identifying the link", did I put the if on the wrong spot?

Oh wait.. I didn't define what MyValue is...

 

Or perhaps, is it because I am using Firefox? Because when I tried to use Keyword test, the search bar doesn't have text/caption property, and it stated 'stub object doesn't have text property'

 

Thank you.

BenoitB's avatar
BenoitB
Community Hero
5 years ago

lol ... no it was an example MyValue :smileyhappy:

 

So here you must make that,

function CheckWebURL(UrlToCheck) { 
  //Assuming that no need of browser exists check so just check if an url is given to be checked and if current browser current page url contains this url 
  if (typeof UrlToCheck == 'string') { 
    var posUrl = aqString.Find(Sys.Browser("*").Page("*").URL, UrlToCheck, 0 , false); 
    return ((UrlToCheck != "") && (posUrl >=0) && (posUrl < 9)) 
  } 
  else {
    Log.Message("UrlToCheck is incorrect");
    return false;
  }
}

typeof return the type of the variable

it could be 'undefined', 'string', 'number' or 'Object'  (array are included in Object)

Here you want a string, so checking if type is string is double check:  variable is definied and it's type is string.

 

On your function, MyValue is here not defined ...

And it will return return true, because by default function returns true. And you don't specify the return value in case of bad type (Log.Message doesn't change return value, Log.Error yes).

 

Good place to learn data type here:

https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_datatypes.asp

 

 

  • rancan's avatar
    rancan
    Occasional Contributor
    5 years ago

    Hi, 

     

    Thank you for helping me out. I found out that the firefox address bar field doesn't have 'text' property on it, so I decided to use other browsers (IE & Chrome) and it seems to work.

     

    Thank you very much. And I will start to learn more about programming and TestComplete :)