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NikosG
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5 years ago
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TestComplete SDK equivalent for Web

Hi I know that you can create addons for third party controls for desktop applications using the TestComplete SDK. Is there an equivalent for web controls. 
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AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
5 years ago

Hi,

 

No, according to my knowledge.

Can you describe why do you need it?

Any control (except ActiveX/Silverlight/etc.) is rendered as html markup on web page, so I do not see any real need for the SDK here...

If you like to create autonomous stand-alone code, you may consider to move your code from test project to the ScriptExtension.

 

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    NikosG
    Occasional Contributor
    5 years ago

    Hi AlexKaras 

     

    I was checking TestComplete and I saw that in our angular based web app I could only get click on coordinates. We are using Angular Material UI and Kendo so for example on a mat-select I'd like to create something like webElement.Select("Value") instead 

     

    Anyway my trial version is over but i'd like to have th full picture in case we revisit this option

     

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      AlexKaras
      Champion Level 3
      5 years ago

      Hi,

       

      > in our angular based web app 

      Angular- and React-based web applications are known for their absolute ignorance of automated tests support by default. :( I.e. by default they produce web pages without any stable unique identifiers (no semantic markup). I don't know whether this is because the libraries itself do not encourage developers to do this or developers are just skipping extra work, but the fact is that even official pages and examples on their web sites have this problem.

      https://community.smartbear.com/t5/TestComplete-Functional-Web/TestComplete-and-ReactJS/m-p/175842/highlight/true#M33701 might provide you with more details.

      And yes, you may create relevant code for the webElement.Select("Value") action and put it into ScriptExtension.

       

      P.S. I believe that you've seen this help topic: https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/general-info/supported-technologies/controls/angularui.html

       

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        NikosG
        Occasional Contributor
        5 years ago

        Hi AlexKaras 

        Thanks for the resources I'll check them out

         

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      NikosG
      Occasional Contributor
      5 years ago

      Also 

      I guess that this statement in the SDK help is outdated

      " The SDK supports all .NET versions: 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5"

      cause that's rather old and later versions of .NET and visual studio are supported