Issues Testing an AJAX-base Web Application

Unfortunately, it will be impossible to provide direct access to the application.  The value of outerHTML for one specific offending text box is:



<INPUT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; VISIBILITY: visible" class=assets-form-combo-medium maxLength=40>



or, after typing in manually the text which the TestComplete recording fails to capture:



<INPUT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; VISIBILITY: visible" class=assets-form-combo-medium value=MICROWAVE maxLength=40>



Converting a recorded keyword test to script:



function Test9()

{

  TestedApps.iexplore.Run(1, true);

  Aliases.iexplore1.ToURL("http://192.168.1.222/");

  Aliases.iexplore.pageLogin.tableLogin.cell.panelLogindiv.table.cell.table.cell.textboxLoginlogin.Click(31, 16);

  Aliases.iexplore.pageLogin.tableLogin.cell.panelLogindiv.table.cell.table.cell.textboxLoginlogin.Text = "LLICHTMANN";

  Aliases.iexplore.pageLogin.tableLogin.cell.panelLogindiv.table.cell1.passwordboxLoginpsswd.Text = "xxxx";

  Aliases.iexplore.pageLogin.tableLogin.cell.panelLogindiv.table1.cell.buttonLoginsubmit.Click();

  Aliases.iexplore2.pageMetbenchCalibrationManagemen.panelLayoutContent.panel.panel.panelJobs2Content.panelJobsTabbar.panelLayoutTabBar.panelLayoutTabs.textnodeMytabs1Item7BoxText.Click(0, 8);

  Aliases.iexplore2.pageMetbenchCalibrationManagemen.panelLayoutContent.panel.panel.panelJobs2Content.panelLayoutContent.panel.panel.panel.panelAssets2Navigator.table.cell.table.cell.imageFindasset.Click(14, 17);

  Aliases.iexplore2.pageMetbenchCalibrationManagemen.Wait();

  Aliases.iexplore2.pageMetbenchCalibrationManagemen.panelJfsyDialog36.table.cell.table.cell.table.cell.textboxAssetsFormComboMedium.Click(73, 8);

  Aliases.iexplore2.pageMetbenchCalibrationManagemen.panelJfsyDialog36.table.cell.table.cell.table.cell.textboxAssetsFormComboMedium.Click(44, 9);

  Aliases.iexplore2.pageMetbenchCalibrationManagemen.panelJfsyDialog36.table.cell.table.cell.table.cell.textboxAssetsFormComboMedium.Text = "";

  Aliases.iexplore2.pageMetbenchCalibrationManagemen.panelJfsyDialog36.table.cell.table.cell1.table.cell.panel.textnodeAw213BoxText.Click(14, 8);

}



Manually correcting the text setting step to:



Aliases.iexplore2.pageMetbenchCalibrationManagemen.panelJfsyDialog36.table.cell.table.cell.table.cell.textboxAssetsFormComboMedium.Text
= "MICROWAVE";



and running the test results in the following Warning:



<The editor cannot contain more than 0 symbols.

The text 'MICROWAVE' has been truncated to ''.



Sys.Process("iexplore", 3).Page("http://192.168.1.222/private/mcms/start.php?width=1812").Panel("JFSY_dialog_36").Table(0).Cell(1, 0).Table(0).Cell(3, 0).Table(0).Cell(1, 5).Textbox(0)>



Note that in spite of the maxLength setting of 40, TestComplete is unable to record or set a non-empty string in the text box.