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mfoster711
Regular Contributor
4 years ago

XPath slow

I am using the following code in one of my projects and I am testing two different releases of our software (let's call them alpha and beta release). On the beta release this line of code executes in...
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    Lee_M
    4 years ago

    mfoster711 Thanks for the update, I'm glad your issue seems to have 'disappeard'

     

    There are so many factors that could have caused this

    - internet speed

    - conflict

    - wrong code

    - multiple browsers

    - system load

     

    I suggest if you notice this again you open dev tools and check the network tab to check if the page and dom are loading correctly

    feel free to reach out with more debug information should you encounter this issue again

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Lee_M
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Have you tried changing to FindChildByXPath to FindElement, maybe this helps ?

 

Set objRoot = PageObj.FindElement("//*[@id='root']", true)

 

sometimes the code will take time to search when the search is too generic

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mfoster711
Regular Contributor
4 years ago
Lee_M wrote:

 

Set objRoot = PageObj.FindElement("//*[@id='root']", true)

 

sometimes the code will take time to search when the search is too generic

I understand that but in this example the @id=root object is the immediate child object of the page. This should be the first object searched so it should be quick to find. Also, I am searching by ID.