Verifying .Pix Files with variable Parts
Hello Smartbearcommunity, i'm trying to verifying 2 .pix files and in thispix files the "id" is changing. How do i get my script working? Example PIX File File1
<? xml version"1.0! encoding="...
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Actually, what I would do is not use a pure file to file comparison like that at all. These are XML files and you can actually compare node to node and, if there are nodes you don't want to compare, simply skip them.
I'd write a routine (and I don't have time to do it right now) that would utilize MSXML.DOMDocument objects to grab the two XML files into DOM objects. Then, you could write a function that would grab a particular child node from one file, grab the related one from the other file, and compare the contents to see if they match. This even has the advantage that you can target particular sections and compare them rather than having to do the whole file. For example, your application performs a process that updates only 2 or 3 nodes within the XML file. Rather than having to compare the whole file, just check those 2 or 3 nodes.
There's a good bit of documentation out there online on how to utilize the MSXML.DOMDocument objects to compare XML files.
If you don't want to go the route of a customly created routine, you could always use XMLCheckpoints.
Took me a bit to get to this but I had remembered that SmartBear has documentation that gives some examples of how to use the XML Document object to process XML files.
https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/advanced/working-with-external-data-sources/files/xml.html
It's doesn't give specifics on how to write a routine to compare one node to another node, but this should be a good starting place.