Web Menu Dropdowns Clicks randomly selecting from the menu dropdowns

Question

I am attempting to do menu dropdown selections testing. The menu is itself a textnode until it gets populated by the menu option.

When I recorded the original test the menus that I selected populated the menu title with that name.

On a regular basis I will have tests that will have menu options that have various names various menus departments and other menu clicks

fields the drop list is always changing depending on what was selected from a previous menu option. So one menu option

can affect what is in another menu's options.

I need to test these dropdown fields randomly and I will not know what is in the dropdown fields. Is there away to do this within TestComplete.

Or is there a listing of example code that I can add to the unit script?

marsha_r · Answer

I suggest that you record a test that manually goes through the steps you want to cover, in order to get the framework built.&nbsp; Do this for one or two example sets of data so you can see the pattern of the test. Then you can decide if tables or csv or variables or something else will do what you want with the various data.

alexkaras · Answer

Hi,
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Text below is my another guess as I did not see any screenshot example of the UI portion been discussed.
Panel's binding to textboxes depends on your application. It might be that every textbox has its own panel that is opened when textbox is clicked. However it might be that the same panel is opened every time when any textbox is clicked. This is something that you need to figure out with the help of either Object Browser or your developers.
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&gt;&nbsp;how I can setup the TestComplete so that I can automatically have it randomly pick a panel option
After you got the panel, you need to do the following:
-- Wait until panel is populated with data (available options);
-- Get the number of options;
-- Generate a random number between 1 and number of options;
-- Click corresponding option.
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marsha_r · Answer

Is it something like this?
&nbsp;
Dropdown1 options
A,B,C
&nbsp;
Dropdown2 options
if dropdown1 = A, dropdown 2 is&nbsp; D,E,F
if dropdown1 = B, dropdown 2 is&nbsp; G,H,I
if dropdown1 = C, dropdown 2 is&nbsp; J,K,L

largent803 · Answer

It looks like&nbsp;&nbsp;Source = blankThen I click on the textnode and the dropdown appears with the variousoptions in this case Source on possible referrals.&nbsp;In other menu options there is actual names involved however, they are all textnodes.&nbsp;Some of the fields do have key clicks which is how you name the itemAnd comments fields where you can go into detail.

largent803 · Answer

vg14 Click ... Clicks the 'vg14' control.textnode Click ... Clicks the 'textnode' control.panelYYYY Click ... Clicks the 'panelYYY' control.textboxCenterDealdealname Click ... Clicks the 'textboxCenterDealdealname' control.textboxCenterDealdealname SetText "A New Deal" Sets the text 'A New Deal' in the 'textboxCenterDealdealname' text editor.textnode13 Click ... Clicks the 'textnode13' control.panelXXXXX Click Clicks the 'panelXXXXX' control.panelBold Click Clicks the 'panelBold' control.panel47 Click Clicks the 'panel47' control.textnode2 Click Clicks the 'textnode2' control.panelZZZZZ Click Clicks the 'panelZZZZ' control.textnode12 Click Clicks the 'textnode12' control.panel7 Click Clicks the 'panel7' control.panel8 Click Clicks the 'panel8' control.panel8 Keys "WEre going backwards in time" Enters 'WEre going backwards in time' in the 'panel8' object.panel3 Click Clicks the 'panel3' control.panel292 Click Clicks the 'panel292' control.buttonCreateNewDeal ClickButton Clicks the 'buttonCreateNewDeal' button.vg14 Click Clicks the 'vg14' control.&nbsp;So you can see I have removed the names involved what all of those panels have multiple names that can changewhat I need to do to test them is to set these up so that the system will select the textnode and then randomly selectone of the panel names that shows up once the textnode is selected. I have found a csv wants to select all the items in thecsv file and the problem with that is that I would only want it to select it once and then move on to the next menu option.

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